Riding and camping Northern California and beyond, since 1965!

Here again is the eagerly awaited NorCal News, chocked full of the latest and greatest from BMW NorCal! Have something you want to share? Let our crack Editor know, he's always looking for the next big moto related story. 

And speaking of crack Editor, thanks again to John Ellis for cranking out such an awesome newsletter!

Click here to jump right in, or go to BMWNorCal.org/newsletters to find our newsletter archive. 

Thanks and enjoy!

Early Bird registration for the 2020 49er is now open! Click here for information and registration!

It's here! The latest edition of the world's finest BMW club newsletter is hot off the presses and ready for your viewing. Click here to jump right in or as always you can find it in our BMW NorCal website archive (subscribe or click the link on our home page). Like what you see and have something moto related that you'd like to share? Submit your idea to Editor extraordinaire at newseditor@bmwnorcal.org. Want to get your product or business out to 2000+ readers? Contact us about advertising opportunities.

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BMW NorCal turns 55 in 2020!

Most of you know that BMW Norcal was established in 1965, and what a ride it’s been! From our humble roots of 15 (+/-) folks crammed into a cabin above Lexington Reservoir hammering out the foundation of the Club and less than 50 members in the first year to today, where we have a membership of some 315 riders, including three of the original founding members!

To celebrate this milestone, BMW NorCal is planning special rides and events throughout the year, complete with commemorative artwork and swag. And for this we are looking to you, the membership, for input and designs. Please submit any design ideas and/or sketches for consideration for this years’ commemorative artwork. Your idea could either be a hand drawing or created on a computer. Some ideas for phrases to put on the design could include: “BMW NorCal”, “55 years”, Ride to Camp, Camp to Ride, “Established in 1965”, “Fun”, Safe”, Camping”, etc. Be creative and capture the spirit of this fine club!

All ideas are to be submitted to Jorgen Larsen - Club Safety Director and de facto Party Czar at Safetydirector@bmwnorcal.org no later than March 1^st. The BoD will vote on the winning design at the regular BOD meeting at MotoGuild San Francisco on March 7^th. You are all welcome to come and participate, as usual. Submittals shall be by members in good standing only.

In addition, we are looking for some old club pictures from past events throughout the years. If you have any that you think could be fun to share, then please forward them to  Safetydirector@bmwnorcal.org.

It's here! The NorCal News is back after our December hiatus and John Ellis has outdone himself - again. Click here to jump right in and as always you can find it in the newsletter archive at BMWnorcal.org. And if you have something moto related to share with our readership, shoot it over to John at newseditor@bmwnorcal.org. 

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The November edition of the NorCal News is hot off the presses and ready for your viewing! Click here to jump right in and see what's new! Or check out our Newsletter archive. Enjoy and be sure to thank John Ellis for a top notch newsletter. 

The Board of Directors is proposing another round of changes to the Club By Laws, this time including some general cleaning up of typo's, formatting, and redundancies that have been accumulating over the last several edits but more importantly addressing how we classify and process (convert to member status) the nonmember but BMW owning attendees at the 49er and ROL rallies. Click here for the marked up version of the By Laws showing the proposed changes. 

Note: This revision was approved at the September Member Meeting / Campout and following publication, here on the website and with the newsletter, will be up for review and vote at the October Member Meeting / Campout for ratification by the Club. 

Hot off the presses is the October edition of the NorCal News! Editor extraordinaire John Ellis has done another fine job of providing us with a great edition. So click here to jump right in and if you have something to share with the club, let him know. Thanks John!

Join us in welcoming Jeff Zane as the our new Vice President! And thanks to John Notch and Linda Rodda for stepping up and throwing your hat in the ring. We appreciate the dedication of all the Board and those that run for the positions too. 

Hey folks! If you haven't heard, BMW NorCal has a new Second Sunday Breakfast Ride Coordinator, Mark Rodda. So if you have an idea of a ride you'd like to share with the Club, let him know! Email him at SSBR@bmwnorcal.org

And don't worry about having to put together a route sheet or .gpx file. Just come up with a breakfast place and your favorite route - riders can just follow. 

Thanks!