{"id":1292,"date":"2018-10-13T16:02:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T16:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2019-02-24T06:32:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T14:32:30","slug":"brown-motor-works-in-pomona-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/13\/brown-motor-works-in-pomona-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Motor Works in Pomona, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of many vintage BMWs displayed at Brown BMW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brown Motor Works<\/a> in Pomona, California, is a family-run BMW dealership that has been in business since the 1960s. I first visited the place when I moved to California in 1979, and that’s when I met Bob Brown. I liked Bob and the dealership immediately. \u00a0 Brown BMW felt like a motorcycle shop.\u00a0 Bikes, riding gear, cool used stuff, and none of the antiseptic featurelessness you typically find today at most new motorcycle dealers.\u00a0 Nope, Brown\u2019s is the real deal…a real motorcycle shop.<\/p>\n

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A new BMW in the Brown Motor Works showroom. These are stunning motorcycles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fast forward another 20 years, and my good buddy Marty kept telling me about the First Church of Bob. He was referring to the Saturday get-togethers at Brown’s, where riders congregated for an hour or so of talk about, well, anything and everything, followed by lunch.\u00a0 I was a little hesitant at first because I didn\u2019t ride a BMW, but Marty told me lots of guys at these weekly events didn\u2019t ride Beemers.\u00a0 So I went, and I’m glad I did.\u00a0 I’ve made lots of friends there and I’ve gone on many rides as a result (the Three Flags Rally, Baja adventures, and more). \u00a0I\u2019ve been a relatively faithful First Church of Bob disciple for close to 20 years now.\u00a0 And hey, it’s Saturday.\u00a0 I\u2019m going there today.<\/p>\n

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Dave Brown, who runs the show at Brown BMW, along with his sister Julie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bob Brown is the guy who started Brown Motor Works. Bob is as real as it gets, and to overuse a phrase, the guy is a living legend. He raced the big races, including the storied Catalina Grand Prix, Baja, and more.\u00a0 Bob rode the thousand-mile length of Baja when it was only paved for the first 200 miles.\u00a0 And Bob rode what might have been the first GS ever to Alaska and back (and when I say the first GS ever, I mean it…he took a standard BMW boxer, chopped the fenders, put on knobbies, and pointed the front wheel north).\u00a0 Bob designed handlebars, kickstands, and many other BMW accessories that ultimately found their way into the production motorcycles.<\/p>\n

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Bob Brown, in Baja, teaching yours truly the finer points on how to ride safely, quickly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And wow, can Bob ride. I can\u2019t tell you how many times I\u2019ve seen him absolutely smoke youngsters on Gixxers, Ducatis, and other high-performance machines. Bob would be on a black-and-white police boxer trade-in (one of his favorite mounts, a bike weighing a good 200 lbs more than the hypersports) and he\u2019d pass Ricky Racers in the twisties on the Crest who thought they were quick.\u00a0 Sometimes he\u2019d do it standing on the pegs, just to make a point.<\/p>\n

Brown BMW<\/a> is one of our ExhaustNotes sponsors (that\u2019s their ad you see on all of our pages), and I\u2019m here to tell you it\u2019s a place you want to visit. Dave Brown and his sister Julie run the show today, with help from great folks like Tom in Sales, Eddie and Gerry in Service, and others. While you\u2019re there, you can take a look at Bob’s collection of vintage BMW motorcycles, have a cup of coffee, and maybe even say hello to Bob. It\u2019s a fun place to visit and everything they do is top notch.\u00a0 Folks, trust me on this:\u00a0 Brown Motor Works is the real deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brown Motor Works in Pomona, California, is a family-run BMW dealership that has been in business since the 1960s. I first visited the place when I moved to California in 1979, and that’s when I met Bob Brown. I liked Bob and the dealership immediately. \u00a0 Brown BMW felt like a motorcycle shop.\u00a0 Bikes, riding … Continue reading “Brown Motor Works in Pomona, CA”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[352,96],"tags":[353,354],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmw","category-feel-good-stuff","tag-bob-brown","tag-gs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}