The 36th annual MSTA STAR national will be held in Bristol, Virginia this year.  4 days of riding the fabulous roads of SW Virginia, NE Tennessee, North Carolina, and SE Kentucky highlight the event. Self-guided ride routes will be available to be downloaded to your GPS. The Honda Demo trucks, vendors such as KLIM, RKA, and NoMar will be on site the whole time.  Host hotel is the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Bristol, Va.  Camping close by at Sugar Hollow Park.  Restaurants and other hotels within easy walking distance.  Historic downtown Bristol about 10 minutes away.  Sunday evening welcome reception at the hotel and Tuesday evening guest seminars.  Hundreds of door prizes given away. Wednesday evening banquet included in your registration rally fee.  A Honda Goldwing will be given away*, along with other great prizes from companies such as Areostitch and Dunlop. Full breakfast included in your room rate at the Holiday Inn.  Sponsored by the Motorcycle Sport Touring Association.  Membership in the MSTA is NOT required to attend.   On the web at www.ridemsta.com or Facebook at MSTA STAR 2019.

(* must be an MSTA member to participate in the bike raffle.)

Registration opens Monday February 4th….www.planetreg.com/STAR2019

It’s OPEN!

41^st Annual Chief
Joseph Rally

June 27-30, 2019

Grant County Fairgrounds, John Day, Oregon

Early registration: March 1 through June 15

Includes 3 nights tent camping, showers, as well as dinner Friday and Saturday.

BMWRO members – $55

Non-members – $70

Late registration at the Gate

Includes 3 nights tent camping, showers, but no meals. A limited number of dinner tickets will be available at $15 per meal.

BMWRO members – $45

Non-members – $60

To register or review details, please visit the BMW Riders of Oregon website:

https://bmwro.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=301799&module_id=172743

GRAND OPENING! BMW MOTORCYCLES OF GREATER CINCINNATI

140 N. VERITY PKWY, MIDDLETOWN, OHIO 45042

Mark your calendars!

June 28 and 29, 2019 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD TRUCKS, FUN AND DEMO RIDES!

BMW Motorrad Demo Truck will roll into the grand opening of our brand new dealership with a distinctive display offering attendees an opportunity to test a wide variety of the latest BMW Motorcycles!

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to test ride the BMW you dream about.

Registration begins at 8:00 am

Appropriate Riding Gear Required:

Helmet, Eye Protection

Long sleeves, Long pants

Over the ankle boots

AND A VALID MOTORCYCLE LICENSE ENDORSEMENT

First Wednesday of every month. Open to all riders, BMW Airhead, Oilhead, Brick, Chain Gang or Duc, Hardly, KLR, whatever. Location is Sideshow Kitchen, 942 Stanford Ave., Oakland, CA 94608 b/t Lowell St & 60th St. Lots of food and beer options. They have a covered patio w/ heaters if it rains.

The 2019 Kentucky-MSTA Red River Gorge Rally will run from Friday the 12th- Sunday the 14th.  It will be headquartered at the Ramada Inn, Mount Sterling, Kentucky.  An MSTA sanctioned event that is open to ALL riders.  Your rally fee of 15.00 will go to support the Dan Clark Safety Fund.  Custom suggested road routes will be available for GPS download or in printed form. The location was chosen to take advantage of the abundance of twisty and scenic roads in eastern Kentucky.  The host hotel has given us a rate of 84.95 tax per night.  They are holding rooms until June 28th.  Call them at 859-497-9400 and ask for a room in the MSTA block.  Cattleman’s Steakhouse next door.  Cracker Barrel across the street.  Gas at end of access street. Camping space at several sites in the Red River Gorge area, including Natural Bridge State Resort Park.

Registration open at www.planetreg.com/E1155113757296.

Rally Master…Patrick Mogavero.  www.patrickmogavero@gmail.com. 859-620-6352

Clicking on the more information tab will take you directly to the registration site page

Expected to draw more than 170,000 motorcycle enthusiasts from across the country, Roar on the Shore® Bike Week has exploded on the national rally scene – experiencing unprecedented growth in its first 12 years – boasting no gate fee to enter, free headline concerts every night, free celebrity meet and greets, free stunt shows – in addition to 11 scenic rides (including a celebrity led parade of bikes) to showcase all that the Erie region has to offer! Proceeds from the 2019 Roar on the Shore® Bike Week will benefit a designated charity. Over the past twelve years, this event has donated more than $880,000 to charitable organizations.

roarontheshore.com

To register for this event, please visit: https://www.wsbmwr.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=507138&module_id=150331

Registration is $60 and includes:

• Friday and Saturday evening dinners
• Free coffee every morning
• Free cold drinks in the afternoon
• Evening beer sales with offerings from Republic Brewing
• Door prizes
• Options for off-road training
• Free seminars
• Club logo clothing at the Country Store
• Free maps for on-road and GS rides
• Free Saturday and Sunday on-road guided rides, including an Airhead ride
• Option for a creamery and cheese ride/tour
• Free access to GPS tracks
• Free camping
• and more!

Registration at the event is available for $60 but food may be limited and T-shirts may be sold out. Advance registration is recommended. Advance registration closes on July 10.

Optional Event: BBQ Beef Luncheon Ride
Group ride leaves the Rally Fairgrounds at 10:00 on Friday, arriving at Pine Stump Farms in Omak at 12:00. Riders still on road should arrive at Pine Stump Farm at 12:00.  Enjoy your meal, then ride back to the Rally with the group.

The $25 fee (paid during the rally registration process) includes a tour of Pine Stump Farms, a family-run operation nestled in the mountains east of Omak. They’re famous for their cheese and other organic farm products (http://pinestumpfarms.com/). Address: Pine Stump Farms, 288 Haley Creek Road, Omak, WA 98841 (5 miles east of Omak on Highway 155. then south On Haley Creek Road; last 2.5 miles are hard gravel and dirt, suitable for street bikes)

Meal includes: Grass-fed, free-range BBQ beef (no substitutes, you’re in beef country)

Bread and salad made from local greens

Dessert – fruit cobbler with yogurt topping

Tea, coffee, and lemonade

Space is limited, sign up early to reserve your meal.

Optional Event: Off-Road Training
Off-road training will be provided on Saturday by Jason Sherman and Whitney Koeberle of Dirt Bike Safety Training. Bring your dualsport or adventure bike for four hours of training and improving your skills. We will ride together through a series of skill building exercises, honing your skills and maximizing your fun at the rally and many miles to come.  We will be heading out on Forest Service roads for a guided ride after the clinic. We will have a limited number of appropriately sized dirt bikes available at an additional cost, so register now to secure that option.

Space is limited, register now to get the best pricing!  Pre-register now for $195;  price goes to $215 after July 7th. These classes are regularly $265. WSBMWR members may receive a $50 training rebate.

Join us for our annual summer camp-out at our beautiful location generously hosted by long-time BMW riders and RA Club Members Kent and Pamela Ringstmeier on their private grounds. Enjoy some of Ohio’s best riding through Amish Country and the Mohican State Park. If you haven’t attended this event in the past you’re missing a lot of fun and good times with fellow motorcyclists. This is a beautiful location with excellent riding in all directions. The RA will provide coffee, tea, hot chocolate and drinking water, and lot’s of raffle prizes as always. There will be a Saturday evening pot luck dinner. A gas grill and stoves are available for your cooking needs Friday and Saturday. There are several restaurants nearby as well. The donation can and a 50/50 drawing will be utilized to cover rented equipment and other costs for this event. This location offers lots of cool shaded camping among trees or sleep under the stars in the grassy field. There will be Porta-lets, and a hot shower. Please contact Host Kent Ringstmeier (330-421-1039) or Sibley Poland (740.485.0502) for more info about this Ohio RA event. Address: 8988 Rawiga Road, Seville Ohio 44273 GPS: N41 1 41.88 W81 48 59.994

Damn Yankees Rally and Moto Gymkhana

The Damn Yankees Annual Rally is our flagship event and provides rustic camping at one of New England’s oldest operating fairgrounds, The Heath Fairground. Saturday evening chicken BBQ by the Heath Volunteer Fire Department is included, Legendary Church Ladies home made Pies and baked goods (free Coffee if you bring your own mug) and the Saturday night bonfire is always a good time. Saturday activities often include a guided rides, a visit to a legendary ISDT Spanish Motorcycle museum, and our Moto GymKhana skills competition, now in its 3rd year. Ride the course as fast as you can, try not to knock over the cones, hit the tires or fall off your bike with a $100 first prize. Todd and Pat will be your referees again in 2019. Every year its a new course and a great time. You get a free run with you rally ticket and each additional run is $2. The run money is awarded to the winners. This is a modified “Gymkhana” on a grassy field and is optimized so that all bikes have a chance at winning. All Bikes Welcome!

Rally Fee: Pre-Reg $65 (by July 21) $75 at the gate. Children under 13 yrs, $15. Rally Chairs: Ken Springhetti Bill Cusack Duncan Cooper Dan Walton Todd Truex Ken Springhetti:KZ1000@HOTMAIL.COM Please consider volunteering to work the Registration desk, kitchen, score an event, lead a ride, or help setup! Bring your musical instrument and jam by the campfire! All proceeds are donated to local charities so check out any additional information at YANKEE BEEMERS and make plans to attend!

The BMW Motorcycle Club of Colorado and Foothills BMW-Triumph present their premier all-day riding event.  This ride is designed to take you over enough mountain passes to equal 100,000 feet.  The 100k ride combines some of the best roads and scenery Colorado has to offer.  The $36 registration includes t-shirt, pin, prizes and catered dinner.  There will be a dual sport route as well as a paved route available and total mileage will be under 500.  Online registration will cut off July 13 and is limited to 200 riders.  Walk-up registration will be accepted as space permits although t-shirts and dinner cannot be guaranteed.  Register online at www.bmwmcc.org.  Ride Coordinator Mike Szabo mhm1mike@gmail.com.

First Wednesday of every month. Open to all riders, BMW Airhead, Oilhead, Brick, Chain Gang or Duc, Hardly, KLR, whatever. Location is Sideshow Kitchen, 942 Stanford Ave., Oakland, CA 94608 b/t Lowell St & 60th St. Lots of food and beer options. They have a covered patio w/ heaters if it rains.

TWIStar was an annual event from 1994 until 2015 and now has returned!  The event has been moved from May to August and changed locations to Lacrosse, Wisconsin. The area is commonly known as The Driftless Area (www.driftlessroadadventures.com) and is filled with over 800 miles of great roads and also tons of Dual Sport riding opportunities.

Hotel rooms available at the Stoney Creek Hotel and Conference Center on the north side of Lacrosse.  The resort is holding 20 rooms under the MSTA group name until Friday July 5th @ $109.00 plus tax per night.  Breakfast is included.

Camping close by at Neshonoc Lakeside Camping Resort.  N5334 Neshonoc Road, West Salem, WI. 54669 Call them at 608-786-1792 and ask for the MSTA group rate.

On Road and Dual Sport routes from Driftless Road Adventures and Trans Wisconsin Adventure Trail will be available. Bring your GPS.

Rally Master….John Panek-847-769-5732 or polyjanek@gmail.com

www.stoneycreekhotels.com

www.neshonoclakeside.com

www.driftlessroadadventures.com

www.transwisconsintrail.com

Join us for the 42nd Annual Dan’l Boone Campout at the KOA Campground in
Boone, NC. This year the event will be a campout with no rally fee and
limited amenities. We have some of the best motorcycle roads east of the
Mississippi. Ride the Blue Ridge Parkway, High Country of North
Carolina, Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee, and fun GS rides
all in easy distance to the campout. This is a rain or shine rally. The
weather prediction is always pessimistic so don’t be discouraged. RV
reservations (800-562-2806 boonekoa@bellsouth.net ) and tent camping paid directly to the campground. Check out more details at Carolinas BMW Motorcycle Owners Association.

Fernando Cofani  rally@carolinasbmwmoa.org

The four NJ BMW motorcycle clubs have joined together in a fundraiser for two prostate cancer foundations. We’re doing this in memory of one of our club members who passed away in August 2018, Harold Gantz. Harold was a friend to all and an enthusiastic lifelong motorcyclist with a love for BMWs.

Our “Ride” is a self-done ride – patterned like a scavenger hunt – where you can visit various historic destinations in NJ and gain door-prize tickets for each spot you visit and document. The list of locations will be released on August 1st.

We’ll then be meeting at Cross-Country Powersports,  Rt 27, Metuchen NJ on August 11th at noon to award door prizes, tell lies and eat.

You can register for the event and gain admittance to the August 11th get-together by visiting either of the foundations we support and making a minimum donation of $20/person.  They can be found on our website at NJ Ride for the Cure!

Join us in honoring Harold, plus having a lot of fun and the chance to win some outstanding door-prizes.  This IS an “ALL-BRANDS” event – all are welcome!

The 53rd 4 Winds BMW Riders Rally is held at The Red Bank Valley Municipal Park in western Pa. Great riding on scenic paved and unpaved roads near Allegheny National Forest.  Plenty of shaded grass covered areas for tent camping.  RV camping is available as well as off site cabins and B & B lodging.  Friday night dinner ride, Saturday evening banquet and donuts on Sunday morning.  On site concession stand open for breakfast and lunches.  Guided and self guided rides available.

Offers a full week celebration of motorcycle sport touring. Over 20 suggested rally routes, including many for Dual sports.  Come for whatever days you wish and pay only one $20.00 rally fee for the whole week. Great riding in SE Ohio and West Virginia every day! Mon-Thurs. evenings a series of Dinner Tours (including transportation) to downtown Marietta locations. Thursday evening the outdoor lounge is set up at the host hotel.  Friday evening a traditional “brat burn” cookout in the back area of the hotel, included in your rally fee. Thursday-Saturday FREE 15 minute Therapeutic Messages from a licensed masseuse are available (tips appreciated!).  Host Hotel is the Best Western Marietta.  Call 740-374-9660 to make reservations.  Let them know you are reserving for Mail Pouch Week.  King or Double rooms for $74.00 plus tax per night.  Camping close by at various locations. ALL money raised to be donated to the Ride For Kids charity. OPEN TO ALL RIDERS!

Register at www.planetreg.com/FLYBYWEEK2019