Club News and Activities

• Registration for the 2013 DownEast Rally is closed the rally is full! Read the Rally page for details and register early next year.
• Thank You Poland Spring!! For donating your great water to our Rally.
• We still need a Vice President and Safety Officer.  Talk to Tom Gerken if you’re interested in taking one of these on.
• If you’re an BMW MOA member, be sure to get your mileage form signed off either by two club officers, or just take it to a BMW dealership.  Start chocking up those miles!
• NEW! For DownEast Rally Participants and friends…  A FaceBook Group for the Rally…  Visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/DownEastRally and join us.
• New England BMW Club Meetup (May 11th):  For the second year the New England BMW Clubs will be meeting at Stuart and John’s Sugar House on the New Hampshire, VT line for lunch on May 11, at 1200 noon.  Directions are on their web site.  Great ride and great food.  Call Jim Salisbury with questions.  883-3773
• BEEMERS AND BRATWURST!! May 16th  For those who may be arriving on Thursday we will have an informal gathering between 5:30 and 6 p.m on May 16 at Richards German Restaurant at the corner of Maine and Center Streets in Brunswick. Outstanding German Cuisine and brewski’s to boot! The food is excellent and moderately priced with entrees ranging from $10.50 to $23.00. Lighter fare and sandwiches also available. Parking is in the rear. Please contact Tom Gerken (theprez@) if you will join us no later than May 10, so we can give Richard a head count.
• BMW Riders of Southern Maine meets on the first Saturday of every month. Most months, we meet at the Cole Farms Restaurant in Gray, Maine. See the details on the next meeting below.
• Mark your calendars now!  The 2013 BMW Riders of Southern Maine DownEast Rally is being held on May 17th through the 19th at Hermit Island.  The plans are much the same as always… lots of food, motorcycles, comraderie, and oh yeah… lobster!  Register NOW.  Also, be sure to contact David Eskelund to volunteer to help out on the Rally.  Volunteer now and help organize and execute the rally.  Drop David a note from the contact form.

Next Meeting:

June 1^st 9:00AM

Cole Farms Restaurant
64 Lewiston Rd, Rte 100
Gray, ME

Directions (map):
64 Lewiston Rd, Rte 100, Gray, Maine;
Gathering for coffee beginning at 8:30am
Breakfast/Meeting starts at 9:00am

Be sure to check out all the different information on our motorcycle club site. News updates can be found in the right column and on our News Blog page. Other things to watch are our BMWRSM Forums and BMWRSM Gallery feeds in the right column of the site. Click on any feed link and you’ll be taken directly to either the forums or the gallery.  The latest minutes from our riders club meetings will be posting on the meeting minutes page.

Photos! Throughout the site you’ll find different photos and even slideshows posted. The slideshows come directly from our photo gallery. But, be patient as they do take a few moments more to load. Just about all photos on the site can be clicked on and will take you directly to the photo gallery.

The BMW Riders of Southern Maine calendar can also be viewed right in the site on the calendar page. You can also get a glimpse of the next few events in the calendar feed in the right column.

Enjoy the site and all the new features. If you’d like to contribute something, just drop us a note on the new contact page.