Our local BMW club (the Yankee Beemers) has a handful of campouts every summer, and the first one we were able to attend was at the Pemi River Campground up in Thornton NH. Normally, it’s a two hour drive, but the Ural hadn’t been broken in enough to handle highway speeds, so Dachary had to take slow, back-roads all the way up there, and with a break along the way it took her nearly five hours. I would have loved to have joined her on the way up, but I had that dastardly “work” thing, and my…

Doggle-Wearing Dogs
Over the past week, we’ve been gradually taking the dogs on progressively longer rides in the Ural to help them get used to it. They’re both taking to it: they now get all excited when I bring out the harnesses, and both dogs happily hop into the sidecar under their own steam. No more need to lift Ben up and put him inside. And Bandido, as it turns out, has become an absolute crazy about Ural rides! He’s taken to following me around the house, barking…

Being ATGATT people ourselves, there was no way we could let the dogs ride unrestrained in a moving motorcycle. I know from my old days working with a personal injury attorney what can happen when an unrestrained dog turns into a projectile in an accident. Doing it in an open-air vehicle seems like even more of a recipe for disaster.