Real Riders!

Yes, I ride, as do many of my friends, and coworkers (and their spouses) at BlueCircle. With work, I also have the privilege of spending a fair bit of time with people in the riding community, be it all those great people in the sales, finance and service departments at motorcycle dealerships or the fantastic volunteers of many of the motorcycle clubs and riding organizations or charity groups that a lot of riders are involved with in their spare time.

Of course, I get quite humbled by many of those good folks who put in so much of their personal time in creating a fun motorcycle event that also raises much needed funds for a good cause. It seems the motorcycling community is unparallelled by any other group , and I've been involved in many, including schools, community associations, hockey and baseball teams and leagues, music groups, and Guides and Scouts, to name a few.

One other thing that humbles me is when you meet the 'real riders', the ones that go off on week or month or year long rides, to other provinces and states, countries, and continents, and roll across hundreds, thousands, millions of kilometres of terrain, be it paved, gravel or otherwise.

I have the pleasure of working with a gal who's one of those riders and has who knows how many hundreds of thousands of km under her belt. Angela's side business is Ride Stop n Go, with partner Troy, and they've explored the highways and bi-ways from Alaska all the way to The Baja, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back again. Not only are they great people, but they love to share, so give their website a visit and chat them up next time you see them at one of the many (if not every) event going on in the motorcycle community in Alberta and beyond.

Jeremy Kroeker

Another hard riding person I had the pleasure of meeting lately is Jeremy Kroeker, a Canmore Alberta native but also a motorcyclist who's been far and wide on his adventure bike, including Turkey, Syria, and Iran. Jeremy has also shared his vast riding experiences in several books, such as "Through Dust And Darkness" and "Wind Therapy", but also his latest written work called "Motorcycle Messages". Of course, doing the riding is one big adventure, and writing a book is another, but getting it published, printed and distributed is a whole new ride! We heard about Jeremy from some mutual friends and clients of BlueCircle, above average riders in their own rights. Jordan and Sandra knew that Jeremy needed some help, and that we loved to be involved in the motorcycle community and would do our best to lend a hand. And so, Jeremy's book dreams became a community affair and we were very pleased to be a part of the 'crowd funding' effort to get his stories out there to be shared with the public.

A great read, just like Jeremy's other tales of motorcycling adventures!!