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Michael Allen Obituary June 2, 2025 - Brookings-Smith Funeral Home
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I was just recounting a story to new BMW friends about Mike. We rode to the RA rally in Canada back in the prior century and it poured down for all but 16 minutes of the long weekend. It seemed like every trip we planned and undertook, the heavens opened. He earned his callsign of "Rain Man" and wore it with pride. Back when most riders were clamoring to get a new-fangled GPS, Mike joked he was looking into a periscope instead. We actually wore snorkels on our helmets around the campground at the Green Mountain one particularly wet year ... lots of folks snapped pics of us, wish I had one of them. I do have several others, including one I took somewhere in the middle of New Brunswick in a field alongside the road. We stopped to ask for directions as we got a bit turned around (maybe should've opted for the GPS after all), and Mike said, "I'll just ask these farm hands over here." We pulled over, he walked out and spoke with someone for about 5 minutes, then came walking back to the roadside and climbed on his bike. "Well," I said, "what did you find out?" "How the hell should I know," he chuckled, "I don't speak Spanish! But we actually are lost ..."
I moved out of state and out of country in the '00s, and sadly, we lost touch. I was looking him up to see if he had retired and sold his business, when I found his obit ... showing he had passed only days ago. Wild. Got to think he was letting me know to look him up from the big rally in the sky.
Good night Rain Man, lover of Beemers, Guzzis, pizzas, cookouts, rock & roll, quality footwear, jokes and laughter, and poutine. You will always be remembered and missed by so many.
