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

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.

Join your fellow BMW enthusiasts, get back to the garden, and have a groovy time at the 2019 BMW Riders Association National Rally, sponsored by Dunlop.

The Rally is in Woodstock, Virginia, in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway are nearby, as are the many twisty mountain roads of West Virginia.

Tent and RV sites, live music, food and gear vendors, guest speakers and presentations, evening beer garden, and some of the best roads in the country!

Sign up today. It’s gonna be righteous.

Come join us to carve the sweepers and streamside-shaded twisties of the Green Mountains in Vermont.  Enjoy cool mountain air as you soak up music from Snake Mountain Bluegrass Friday night.  Dine comfortably on home-cooked meals in the screened hall or fire-lit pavilion.  Self-guided gap rides as well as miles of gravel roads in and near the Green Mountain National Forest.  Free hot showers, bonfire, and great rally prizes.  

Watch for registration information at https://bmwmov.wildapricot.org/Rally

Join us at Camp Wawbeek for a premiere Midwest event. Now in our 49th year. 450 acres of wooded fun and games. Great camping, 300 indoor bunks (available for a small fee) Even RV parking. Plenty of showers and rest rooms. Rally fee includes: 24hr coffee, non-alcoholic beverages, Friday chili and hotdogs till gone, Saturday pig roast, and Sunday continental breakfast. (Burgers, brats, Saturday breakfast, beer, local microbrew, and soda available to purchase.) Seminars, group and self-guided rides on some of the Midwest’s greatest roads, field events, kids field events, bike show, swap meet, music and more. Door prizes and awards. No matter the weather plenty of room indoors and out. More information found at Wiscbmwclub.com or Facebook “Dells Rally 2019”.

Join us at our annual fall camp out at Vermont’s  Jamaica State Park. This is the best time of year to ride Vermont’s Green Mountains. Enjoy a weekend of twisty back roads, great dirt roads, campfire camaraderie, warm nights and great late season weather.   All bikes are welcome, but please no loud pipes.  Your fee includes camping and coffee. Pot luck dinner Friday and Saturday evening. Bring something tasty to share. Bring a mug. Always Check the YB Forum for updates. This event is rain or shine. Park info at  https://vtstateparks.com/jamaica.html  

Rally chairs: 
Bill Cusack (bcusack@comast.net) 
Ken Springhetti (kz1000@hotmail.com)

Fee is $35 by PayPal at www.YankeeBeemers.org or mail a check to: 
Yankee Beemers,   P.O. Box 2151 Fitchburg, MA 01420, re: Jamaica

Come celebrate our 30^thAnniversary with the  Knobbies AND our 10th Annual Ride the Blue Ridge! Meal voucher for any night, T-shirts. Great camping, RV spaces available with water and electrical hookups. Hotels and full RV campsites are all within 1 mile. Large showers with plenty of hot water on site! Local restaurants and breweries. And don’t forget, our Knobbies sponsor “Ride With the Knobbies” to places tourists DO NOT go, from touring to GS rides. For the most current information go to www.knobbies.org and click on our rally site. Proceeds go to South Mountain Children & Family Services.

Contact: Gene Smith at 828-439-9754
rallymaster@knobbies.org

BMWMCNorthJersey “Snappin’ Turtle”
(Easy) Rally

September 13 – 15

Our 28^th year at Cedar
Rapids-Barryville, NY

http://cedarrapidscampgrounds.com/

Snappin Turtle (Easy) Rally…… A no fuss laid back  Rally a real easy deal and to keep the price
to a minimum…. Here are the highlites !!!!

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Lots of New
renovations to Cedar Rapids Lodge and Restaurant. One of the nicest camp
grounds on the Delaware River! Flush Toilets,
Showers, Bar and Restaurant on Premises.

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 Camp
Friday and or Saturday.
Only $ 10 dollars a nite.

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At  7 PM Saturday we will meet on the deck of the
lodge,  do door prizes and a 50/50, have beer and soda provided by the club,
Those that want to can order their own dinner. (great food) FYI most people get
their camping fee back in Free Beer!!!

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Fire wood will be
provided by club. For Group Campfire

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DOOR PRIZES ***
Snacks on Friday

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As usual all
friends of club members and of  BMW welcome.

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Great roads,
great camping, great people.

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http://s224.photobucket.com/user/patrestaino/slideshow/Snappin Turtle

Contact Pat Restaino for more info… patrestaino@optonline.net

THINGS TO
DO…

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Ride one of the largest zip lines in the east-across
the road- http://kittatinny.com/dual-racing-ziplines/

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Rent a canoe, raft, kayak right at the campground.

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Ride some of the best roads in the area to:

Rohman’s 1846 Bar and Bowling Alley        https://www.facebook.com/RohmansInnandPub/

Chet’s Place http://www.chetsplace.com/

       Dozens of Historic towns and sites http://www.upperdelawarescenicbyway.org/

September 20-22, 2019

16th Thunder Mountain Rendezvous

BMW Riders of Western Colorado RA #319

Color weekend in Hotchkiss Colorado, our venue includes grassy camping and restrooms with showers.  $40 before 8/15, $50 at the gate, you get two dinners, Booster Club fundraiser pancake breakfast available Sat. a.m., continental breakfast Sunday morning, camping, coffee, door prizes, and entertainment. No camping on the grass before 5 p.m September 19.  Information: Kerry Dolan 970-985-1274, dolankm@gmail.com or register online at: www.bmwridersofwco.com

Join the Ocean State BMW Riders at Camp Fuller, a YMCA facility on beautiful Great Salt Pond in Wakefield, RI 02879. Enjoy

three days and two nights of ocean side camping or stay in a shared cabin at no extra charge. Don’t delay in registering, the rally

has an 80 person limit. Rally check in is Friday 20 September at 2:00PM. Friday night includes RI clam chowdah, fresh shellfish,

and RI Saugys (hot dogs). Saturday and Sunday includes breakfast, and Saturday evening’s dinner (at the onsite dining hall)

features a sumptuous steak or lobster meal. Guided or self-guided tours are available, and maps and information on the local

area are available. Saturday night will feature a bonfire with door prizes. There are plenty of hot showers and rest rooms. There

is much history to explore in the local area and numerous incredible restaurants to satisfy all tastes. The fee is $75 by preregistration

only by September 10, 2019 or until the 80 person limit is reached. Register online at oceanstatebmwriders.com or

print and mail registration form. For rally questions contact Steve Forand at (401) 862-6531/forands9@gmail.com

Join the YBMW Charter Club for our annual UnRally September 20-22 in Salem Ohio:

Stoneridge Terrace Campground, 33807 Winona Road, Salem Ohio 44460

Friday Night: Potluck. Bring something to share. We will have hotdogs and buns available to cook over the fire.

Saturday Morning: Miss and I (Todd) will provide pancakes and sausage for breakfast. At 10 AM side-stands up for a group lunch ride! After we return, we will again try the PICKLE SPIT and other various games!

Saturday Evening: This year its a BBQ dinner with various side dishes. Following dinner we will have raffles and door prizes.

Sunday Morning:  Pastries will be available before packing up and heading home

Hopefully everyone will be able to attend and as always we can use wood if you have some to donate for the campfire.

Pricing as follows:

1) Camping all weekend is $45 per person (price includes two nights camping and all meals and beverages)

2) Camping is $8.00 per person per night (not including meals and beverages)

3) Attendance all weekend long but not camping is $25 per person for meals and beverages

4) If you can only make it to the Saturday evening meal it will be $20 per person

PLEASE RSVP BY SEPTEMBER 10! YOU CAN EITHER REPLY TO VIA EMAIL: ybmw1@hotmail.com OR call Todd at 330-921-9364

You can pay with paypal to ybmw1@hotmail.com (please send as friend or family to avoid fees) or pay at the rally.

Ride Safe and See You There!!

Join us to
celebrate our 37^th Annual Last Chance Rally, Sept. 20, 21, and 22 at
the Buena Vista Campground in rural Buena, NJ.  Shaded camp sites, cabins
and local hotels to accommodate your travel preference.  Enjoy a relaxing
weekend of field events, riding destinations, awards, comradery and our fabulous Saturday
night PIG ROAST.   Check the latest updates and further information
on our rally website www.lastchancerally.com
or www.newswedenbmwriders.com/phpBB3/index.php.
Questions, contact Pete Lisko (856) 589-7015, or Nancy Glindmyer (856)
691-6549.  See you in September.

Come ride the mountains and valleys of NY’s fabulous Catskill Mountains. Held for the 5th year at the Crystal Brook Resort, Round Top, NY

Our event includes 6 full meals (Dinner Friday to Lunch Sunday, and lodging all for one low price.  Enjoy live German bands and German beer in the fabulous Brauhaus on site.   All rooms are heated/AC, and there is a pool and hot-tub on-site site for when you get tired of riding twisties.

Our club makes nothing from the event. Sometimes we have some door prizes, sometimes not. You contact the resort and make your own reservations, make sure to mention the BMW Club event. We usually have the entire resort pretty much to ourselves since it’s the same weekend as the Von Stuben Day Parade in NYC, and all their usual guests are in the City.  

The Crystal Brook is only 40 miles from NYC, less than 1 hour by highway, but if you’re creative you can make it a full day of twisties by backroads. There are numerous historic/tourist sights in the area – The Vanderbilt Mansion, FRD’s home in Hyde Park, Olana – Frederick Churchs moorish mountaintop mansion, and Olde Rheinbeck making it a great weekend for couples.  Motorcyclepedia (a museum) is about 40 minutes away.

Join us at Parker’s Crossroads Campground includes: Friday and Saturday night tent camping, pancake breakfast Saturday and Sunday and Saturday evening meal. Enjoy bonfires, movies each evening, our bike show and great door & rally prizes. Close to local restaurants and convenience stores. Fantastic on and off road riding with self-guided tour maps. Saturday Poker Run with lunch at the Natchez Trace, State Park Lodge. Close to Nashville, LBL National Recreation Area and Natchez Trace Parkway. Extend your trip by attending the Barber Vintage Festival (motorcycle racing and swap meet) the following weekend.

Contact: Rally@bmwrams.com or visit our website http://www.bmwrams.com

No fee rally at the Talimena State Park.  Day rides, free cookout – come as your are.