1)
Experienced Rider Course for OSBMWR is on for June 8th!
OSBMWRiders:
If you have been considering taking a riding skills enhancement course for a
'tune-up" or just for some good fun, read on please! The ERC will refresh and
hone your riding skills in a closed course environment with professionally
trained MSF RiderCoaches as facilitators. If you've previously taken an ERC, is
it time to do it again? If you haven't done an ERC, here is a great chance
to enjoy one with your riding buddies!
The Rhode Island Rider Education
Program (RIREP) will be offering the
MSF Experienced Rider Course a limited number of times this summer at the
Quonset Training site. The ERC requires that you have previous riding
experience, bring your own registered, inspected and insured motorcycle plus an
open mind!
Sunday, June 8, 2008 has been selected
as an OSBMWR ERC event!
Our session is scheduled for 8am -
1pm, Sunday, June 8 and five (5) enrollments are in so far for OSBMWR. A
maximum of 8 riders can be scheduled for each course, & up to 2 courses may run
simultaneously.
Please join us!
Enrollment fee is $65, (Check, MO or CCard). Reference
COURSE CODE 50713 and enroll directly with the CCRI Lifelong Learning
department using the registration form found at
www.ccri.edu or by calling Donna Brillon at 401-825-2320.
Mike Diehl, RIREP, MSF RiderCoach
2) Maine May 16 - 18, 2008
The 2008 DownEast
Rally
BMW
Riders of Southern Maine BMWMOA #183 & BMW RA # 206
Hermit
Island Campground, Phippsburg, Maine. Join us at the start of the New England
riding season for another DownEast Rally. Enjoy 3 days & 2 nights
of camping at Hermit Island Campground. Friday night chowder & chili, Sat.
morning breakfast, Sat evening lobster dinner & Sun. morning continental
breakfast. Guided rides, maps and self-guided trips. Fees: $50 (W/O Sat
night meal), optional Sat night lobster, double lobster dinner for an
additional $20; (single lobster $10); complete package (rally & double
lobster) is $70/person. Optional vegetarian meal will be available.
Registration is limited! Registrations are accepted after March 1, 2008 &
will be processed in order of receipt. Early arrivals will be charged
$50/night/person by Hermit Island Campground. Please see
www.BMWRSM.org for details or contact
Steven Garrett at rally@bmwrsm.org.
Checks should be payable to BMWRSM. Send to Steven Garrett, BMWRSM, 158
Highland Road, Brunswick, ME 04011-7213.
Thank You
Sterve G
Rally Chair BMWRSM
3)
Whitehorse Gear invites the Ocean State
BMW Riders
to our 3rd Annual Open House in Center Conway NH
As the BMW motorcycle club liaison, and former
BMW airhead pilot, I am delighted to invite your club to
our 3rd Annual Open
House on Saturday May 17th at our Center Conway location.
We will have:
* a special guest speaker
* free door prizes drawn hourly
* great "insider" shopping opportunities in our warehouse store, tax free!
* many motorcyclists from a wide area, for some great conversation and
tire-kicking
* superb riding in the White Mountain National Forest/Mount Washington Valley
region
* an excellent free BBQ catered by Fandangle's Restaurant (a Mount Washington
Valley favorite eatery)
Please see the attached flyer and our website for more information.
http://www.whitehorsepress.com/open_house.php
If you would be so kind as to inform your members, we'd be most grateful. We
hope you can join us!
Jeff Adams, Whitehorse Gear
BMW Motorcycle Club Liaison
4) Rally
eNewsletter, Volume 8.01 - May 7, 2008
36th Annual
BMW Riders Association's International Rally
RA n da UP
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, MI
June 19-22, 2008
47° 06.565 N
88° 32.809 W
Those that have ridden the Upper Peninsula of Michigan will tell you the ride is
diverse and very interesting. It may not be the most challenging, but boring, it
is not.
The RA visits this fascinating region for its 36th Annual Rally. And it doesn’t
get any better than the Keweenaw Peninsula. Houghton is the gateway to the
peninsula and as you cross the drawbridge from Houghton to Hancock and leave the
town, the population becomes sparse. A sad reminder of the days when copper
mining was king and the local copper mine employed hundreds at its peak.
The copper mine was also the force that shaped a unique local culture. Waves of
immigrants came to the region to work the mines: Finns, Germans & Italians, with
the Finns being the largest portion of the workforce. That strong Scandinavian
influence remains today and can be seen in the names of towns, streets, food
(we’ll get to pasties later) and sounds: close your eyes and listen to the
locals talk. For a moment you’d swear you crossed the pond to Scandinavia.
The RA will hold its rally on the campus of
Michigan Technological University. A first for the RA as it seeks to
offer diverse and interesting rally sites. MTU was established in 1885 with the
purpose to provide top notch mining engineers and quickly became known for its
mining engineer programs. But as the mines relocated or closed, MTU broadened
its focus and became a well-known engineering school along with other programs
including business. MTU alums can be found in a number of places as diverse as
nuclear power and even remain in the mining fields. I’ve been surprised at the
number of folks who have written to say they are MTU grads and are “coming home”
to attend the rally.
The site is compact and will save your feet some steps. Camping, facilities,
food, entertainment and seminars are all within easy walks. There are three tent
camping areas, all in the same location, but at different levels. The base level
area will be designated as “Group Camping”. If clubs want to set up and
establish encampments, there is room to spread out a bit. This field is normally
used for football practice. The next two camping areas are used as soccer fields
and climb a bit in elevation with the highest field having a great view of the
university, the surrounding forest, Houghton’s drawbridge and the beautiful blue
waters of the Keweenaw Bay of
Lake Superior.
No shower trailers this year, thank God!. MTU has excellent facilities in both
the Gates Tennis Center (GTC) and the Sports and Recreation Complex. Both
buildings have locker rooms with more than ample showers, toilets, sinks, etc.
All camping areas will have porta potties conveniently located. Dry RV camping
will be available in the main parking lot as you enter the rally site and will
be designated as such. Those that choose to dry camp will also be within easy
distances to the two main buildings. One main requirement for those that dry
camp is if you bring your generators, they must be turned off at
11:00pm. Folks with totally self-contained RVs or trailers can camp at
the Cross Country Skiing area. There are no facilities at this site. If you want
full hookups, the Hancock City RV Park can facilitate you and you are within an
easy mile of the rally site. For information on the Hancock Park, visit
bmwra.org/rally and
click on Lodging.
Special needs folks have an area set aside with electricity. If you need one of
these sites, contact Jeff Gehler at
obsession@lsol.net.
Enter the Way-Back Machine to your college days and make a reservation for a
dorm room. MTU has set aside a block of dorm rooms for the rally and these can
be reserved at the same address listed under Lodging. A direct link is provided
to make these reservations.
Seminar rooms and the Cyber Café are located on the second floor of the
recreational complex. Two formal classrooms and the balcony of the SDC Woods Gym
will be used as seminar rooms.
The social center for the rally is the Gates Tennis Center. The GTC will house
registration (in the main lobby), food service, the Bier Garden, entertainment
and the general Information/Volunteer Booth.
Rally pre-registration is open, both on-line at
bmwra.org/rally (click
on Preregistration), or by printing out and mailing a registration form from the
web site, also printed in the April edition of the OTL. Additionally, ERC
courses will be conducted Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the rally. Sign up
on-line or via the paper form. Each class is limited to twelve so sign up ASAP
if you intend to take the class.
On Saturday night, we will have a Pasty dinner. Pasties are truly a UP
tradition and came from miners of yore. These tasty pastries (try saying that
ten times quickly) were made for miners to take with them for lunch and were
compact and kept well. Dinners are just $5 each and a something to try. Just ask
any local!
More information is coming, but if you have questions please e-mail:
rallyinfo@bmwra.org
5)
Dragon
Bike Tours :
Dear All,
Would you like to join BMW motorcycle tour start on
Mid-May? Only away your desk 7days
(7days only)
you will get heaps of benefit through this tour, we can
embrace the freedom, totally connect with the earth, smell
the soil and animal along the road from Langzhou to Dunhuang either,
also visit most treasure heritage, like Mogao Caves(Buddhist
art & masterpiece of manuscripts),Mingshashan(Crescent Moon
Spring) and part of Great wall(Jade Gate Pass) and
etc.........please come to experience most historical west
of
China and
Marco Polo's footprint with us.
Visit our sidelight and laughingly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_kUMpyhN4I"
(Thanks for P. Husband 's producted above video)
Looking for hear you soon for details of route, model of
bike or others
6)
OSHD
Military & Demo Day:
Saturday, May 17th 9AM - 5PM
Check out what's on
tap for the day, and plan on joining us as we thank our nation's military
personnel. We've got activities planned for the entire family including
military displays, a climbing wall, refreshments and photo opportunities on a
Harley®.
Military Day
Event to be held in Warwick; discounts honored
at both store locations.
Demo Rides
Test ride any number of 2008
Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Rides are free. Participants must bring a valid
motorcycle license, wear long pants, over the ankle foot protection, gloves, and
a jacket. We will provide the helmet. This is an escorted ride and release
forms must be signed.
Sign up in advance by calling
401-781-6866. Open slots during the event are on a first come first
served basis.
