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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Mike was a very unique individual. I met him around 2000 or so at my 1st Airheads at the Aerodrome at Wilcox park.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">That event was a blast thanks to Mike & Karla, and Mikes closest 100 or so motorcycling friends ! I last had a pow wow with him at the RA rally in Wellsboro PA 2 summers ago. Thats where I found out about him being a promoter which explained how the OA always had great bands. One very unique man. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">John Chevalaz</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Swoope, VA</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/michael-friedle-obituary?pid=195957810" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="enhancr_card_0094680097">View Michael Friedle's Obituary and express your condolences</a></div><div><br></div><div id="ydp9c633003enhancr_card_0094680097" class="ydp9c633003yahoo-link-enhancr-card ydp9c633003ymail-preserve-class ydp9c633003ymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:YahooSans, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" data-url="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/michael-friedle-obituary?pid=195957810" data-type="YENHANCER" data-size="MEDIUM" contenteditable="false"><a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/michael-friedle-obituary?pid=195957810" style="text-decoration-line: none !important; text-decoration-style: solid !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;" class="ydp9c633003yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><table class="ydp9c633003card-wrapper ydp9c633003yahoo-ignore-table" style="max-width:400px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table class="ydp9c633003card ydp9c633003yahoo-ignore-table" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-radius:2px" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp9c633003card-primary-image-cell" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; position: relative; border-radius: 2px 2px 0px 0px; min-height: 175px;" valign="top" height="175" bgcolor="#000000" background="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/AVgol6uDZBN1aoZcX_PVxw--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://cache.legacy.net/legacy/images/cobrands/PoughkeepsieJournal/photos/PJO060196-1_20200413.jpgx?w=200&h=200&option=3&fc=fff.cf.jpg"><!--[if gte mso 9]><v:rect fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:396px;height:175px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;"><v:fill type="frame" color="#000000" src="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/AVgol6uDZBN1aoZcX_PVxw--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://cache.legacy.net/legacy/images/cobrands/PoughkeepsieJournal/photos/PJO060196-1_20200413.jpgx?w=200&h=200&option=3&fc=fff.cf.jpg"/></v:rect><![endif]--><table class="ydp9c633003card-overlay-container-table ydp9c633003yahoo-ignore-table" style="width:100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp9c633003card-overlay-cell" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 2px 2px 0px 0px; min-height: 175px;" valign="top" bgcolor="transparent" background="https://s.yimg.com/cv/ae/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV21/1/enhancr_gradient-400x175.png"><!--[if gte mso 9]><v:rect fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:396px;height:175px;position:absolute;top:-18px;left:0;"><v:fill type="pattern" color="#000000" src="https://s.yimg.com/cv/ae/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV21/1/enhancr_gradient-400x175.png"/><v:textbox inset="0,0,20px,0"><![endif]--><table class="ydp9c633003yahoo-ignore-table" style="width: 100%; min-height: 175px;" height="175" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp9c633003card-richInfo2" style="text-align:left;padding:15px 0 0 15px;vertical-align:top"></td><td class="ydp9c633003card-actions" style="text-align:right;padding:15px 15px 0 0;vertical-align:top"><div class="ydp9c633003card-share-container"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><!--[if gte mso 9]></v:textbox></v:rect><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td><table class="ydp9c633003card-info ydp9c633003yahoo-ignore-table" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; position: relative; z-index: 2; width: 100%; max-width: 400px; border-radius: 0px 0px 2px 2px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(224, 228, 233);" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:16px 0 16px 12px;vertical-align:top;border-radius:0 0 0 2px"></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:12px 24px 16px 12px;width:99%;font-family:YahooSans, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;border-radius:0 0 2px 0"><h2 class="ydp9c633003card-title" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: YahooSans, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); max-width: 314px;">View Michael Friedle's Obituary and express your condolences</h2><p class="ydp9c633003card-description" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(151, 155, 167);">Michael Friedle passed away at the age of 69 in Poughkeepsie, New York. 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On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 4:18:37 PM EDT, Joe Bowen via VAAirheads <vaairheads@casano.com> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Dave Cushing and casano persons,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Thank you Dave for that beautiful tribute.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Mike Friedle especially seemed to enjoy booking the music programs for the<br clear="none">BMW MOA Rallies. He seemed to know a lot about the bands, what kind of<br clear="none">music would be most enjoyed by the rally attendees, and he absolutely<br clear="none">loved planning those musical events with all the mind-numbing details,<br clear="none">complications, and last-minute-changes involved.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I remember him standing at the gate of the Vermont Rally two or three days<br clear="none">before the Rally opened, checking his list of workers for each person<br clear="none">arriving at the gate. I arrived at the gate on my R60/7 behind two<br clear="none">rough-looking guys on oilheads wanting to crash the pre-rally working<br clear="none">group.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Those two were apparently hoping to camp and drink and party on the<br clear="none">rally-grounds despite the fact that Mike had announced in advance<br clear="none">seventy-dozen times in every forum available that early admittance would<br clear="none">be denied to anyone not working to prepare for the rally.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Those two guys yelled at Mike, told him they had ridden a thousand miles,<br clear="none">told him they had no place to stay, told him they had always checked in<br clear="none">early at rallies before, told him that he was a rotten decision-maker and<br clear="none">worse, etc., etc.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Mike coolly and calmly and politely and firmly told them there was no<br clear="none">admission, no admission, no admission. Finally they realized he could not<br clear="none">be intimidated nor influenced by them acting out. They turned their<br clear="none">oil-heads around (with Mike strategically located between them and the<br clear="none">rally grounds) and they roared off in disgust.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I came to the gate next and Mike was just as friendly and unflappable with<br clear="none">me as if nothing had happened. My name was on his list and he welcomed me<br clear="none">in and ushered me through the gate with a smile!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The last time I remember talking to Mike Friedle was at the Saturday<br clear="none">Banquet at an Airheads Pennsylvania Super Tech. Mike had a pair of big<br clear="none">glasses or goggles that distorted the vision to make the wearer<br clear="none">disoriented and clumsy like one would be while intoxicated from drinking<br clear="none">alcoholic drinks. Mike was offering to everyone the chance to wear the<br clear="none">special glasses and try to walk along a straight line on the floor.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">His main point was that we may feel okay after drinking, but we are<br clear="none">probably not nearly as functional as we think.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">After each person's failure to walk the line -- and everyone did fail --<br clear="none">he stressed that it was not a good idea to operate any motor vehicle, and<br clear="none">certainly not a motorcycle, after drinking alcoholic beverages.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Our club has a void now without him. All of us who met him through the<br clear="none">MOA, the ABC, or otherwise, will certainly miss him.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Joe Bowen<br clear="none">Tazewell, Virginia<br clear="none">1978 R60/7<br clear="none">1972 R75/5<div class="ydp5dc236eayqt4986267645" id="ydp5dc236eayqtfd77112"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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