Donald Sidler

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About Me

Hi, my name is Don Sidler. I live in New Hope, MN, and am retired after 35 years in an oil refinery. I still worked for a few years driving a van for an adult day program, but finally retired for good a few years ago.

My hobbies are woodworking, photography, and was motorcycle touring. The motorcycle touring came to an end, as I sold both bikes and gave up riding. My next ride was a 1998 BMW Z-3 Roadster Convertible. Fun car to drive, but noisy (wind)and only two seats. So the Z-3 was replaced by a 2007 VW EOS Retractible Hardtop. The 2001 bright yellow Gold Wing made another visit to Ebay and was adopted by a new owner from Roseau, MN. So it was goodbye to the yellow Wing. No tears shed there, it definitely wasn't a BMW.

The other bike, an 06 K1200LT made a return trip to Newfoundland with it's new owner from St. Andrew, Newfoundland, in August 2008. I had been riding since 1972 and my favorite bikes have been BMW's. I had an '02 K1200LT before the '06, and put about 80000 fun miles on that one. I had about 30000 miles on the 06 LT. So I will miss it, but mostly I will miss riding with my brother, sons and friends from our M/C club.