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EAST TX: East Texas BMW+ Motorcycle Club Meeting First Thursday

We will be holding a club ride this Saturday to BMW Motorcycles of North Dallas http://www.bmwmotorcyclesdallas.com/ at 900 Avenue K, #300 Plano, TX 75074. We'll be leaving the Legend's parking lot in Jacksonville at 8:30 a.m., with a planned arrival in Plano at noon. The dealership will be cooking hamburgers.

You can meet us at Legend's or meet us at the dealer. I'm attaching the GPS file that Ron made.

See you Saturday.
 

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The November meeting of the East Texas BMW+ Motorcycle Club will be held this Thursday, the 3rd at Legend's Burgers in Jacksonville (1630 S. Jackson) at 6:30 p.m.
 
And as the deer are in rut, they are more stupid than usual, hard as that is to imagine.
Be careful out there.
 
The December meeting of the East Texas BMW+ Motorcycle Club will be held this Thursday, the 1st at Legend's Burgers in Jacksonville (1630 S. Jackson) at 6:30 p.m.

If you missed the picnic, you really missed out. We had a great time and hope to do it again next fall. We had 29 attendees.

The December club ride will be on the 31st to the Moosehead Cafe. We will leave out from Jacksonville, time of departure to be determined.

In January some of us are looking to carpool up to the International Motorcycle Show on Saturday the 14th.

Hope to see you at the meeting.
 
The January 2017 meeting of the East Texas BMW+ Motorcycle Club will be held next Thursday, the 5th at Legend's Burgers in Jacksonville (1630 S. Jackson) at 6:30 p.m.
 
I'm coming (truck) and I'm told Rick Ott is coming (truck). Skipper is undecided.
 
The February meeting of the East Texas BMW+ Motorcycle Club will be held this Thursday, the 2nd at Legend's Burgers in Jacksonville (1630 S. Jackson) at 6:30 p.m.

A little news:
March
We are working on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, TX. It'll probably be the third Saturday, but I have to confirm with our illustrious tour guide. After paying the entry fee, you can fish in the Center's lake that day using their tackle without a fishing permit.

April
A group of us will be riding to the Texas Hill Country the weekend of April 7th for the Hill Country Hangout in Kerrville. Rally fee is $35 before April 1, $45 at the gate. Camping is included in the rally fee. There are a few cabins and RV sites available for an additional fee. See their website for more info: http://www.sabmwra.org/html/club_rally.html

May
Our Fifth Annual Texas National Picnic is on the BMWMOA website and we will be submitting an ad to the Owner's News magazine. Camping for $5/person/day at the Texas State Railroad RV Park & Campground, Rusk will be from Friday, May 19 - Sunday, May 21. The picnic will be held at noon on Saturday. I'm working on door prizes. We have the Dining Hall reserved for Saturday and 15 group campsites reserved Friday through Sunday morning. RSVP to me if you are going to camp. You can pay in advance or pay when you show up.

July
A group of us are headed to Paonia, Colorado in July for the Top of the Rockies Rally. http://www.bmwmcc.org/tor_rally.php This will be a six or seven day trip. We plan to stay in hotels headed there and back, and camp at the rally.

Hope we see you at the meeting and on the road.
 
The March meeting of the East Texas BMW+ Motorcycle Club will be held this Thursday, the 2nd at Legend's Burgers in Jacksonville (1630 S. Jackson) at 6:30 p.m.

The club ride for March will be to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, TX on the third Saturday, the 18th. We will have a behind-the-scenes tour. After paying the entry fee, you can fish in the Center's lake that day using their tackle without a fishing permit. We will be leaving from the parking lot of Legend's Burgers in Jacksonville at 9 a.m.
 
The April meeting of the East Texas BMW+ Motorcycle Club will be held this Thursday, the 6th at Legend's Burgers in Jacksonville (1630 S. Jackson) at 6:30 p.m.

A group of us will be riding to the Texas Hill Country the weekend of April 7th (THIS FRIDAY!) for the Hill Country Hangout in Kerrville. Rally fee is $45 at the gate. Camping is included in the rally fee. There are a few cabins and RV sites available for an additional fee. Jack Dickey & Vernon are riding down and staying in a cabin, I believe they have room - Jeff & I both had to bail on them. See their website for more info: http://www.sabmwra.org/html/club_rally.html Please coordinate with Jack & Vernon for the ride down on Friday morning.

On the third Saturday, April 15th, we will have a club ride from the parking lot at Legend's in Jacksonville (9 a.m. departure) and ride down to the Pickett House in Woodville, Texas. Ron is leading the ride.

Our Fifth Annual Texas National Picnic is on the BMWMOA website and our ad appeared in the Owner's News magazine this month. Camping for $5/person/day at the Texas State Railroad RV Park & Campground, Rusk and will be from Friday, May 19 - Sunday, May 21. The picnic will be held at noon on Saturday. We have a few door prizes. We have the Dining Hall reserved for Saturday and 15 group campsites reserved Friday through Sunday morning. RSVP to me if you are going to camp. You can pay in advance or pay when you show up.
 
ETBMW+MC Third Saturday Ride for June 2017

The Third Saturday Ride on June 17th will be to Joseph's Riverport Barbecue, 201 N Polk St, Jefferson, TX 75657 (featured recently in Texas Monthly magazine). :eat:

We will be leaving from the Legend's Burgers parking lot in Jacksonville at 9 a.m.

Hope to see you there!

Rich
 
I'll most likely meet you there or catch you someplace between Kilgore and Jefferson.
 
Bill.....here is the route. You can guess where to join from our departure time of 9 am if you wish.

Ron
 

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The July meeting of the East Texas BMW+ Motorcycle Club will be held this Thursday, the 6th at Legend's Burgers in Jacksonville (1630 S. Jackson) at 6:30 p.m.

Like we did last summer, we will have a set of breakfast rides on the third Saturday of July, August, & September. These are intended to be individual rides to the restaurant meeting there about 8:30 - we will not be meeting at Legend's.

July 15......7B restaurant, 300 Pine St, Frankston, TX 75763
August 19...Fuglers Feed Trough & Market, 4049 FM1970, Carthage, TX 75633
September 16.....Tiffany's Restaurant at Lake Fork Marina, 275 Co Rd 1558, Alba, TX 75410
 
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The August meeting of the East Texas BMW+ Motorcycle Club will be held this Thursday, the 3rd at Legend's Burgers in Jacksonville (1630 S. Jackson) at 6:30 p.m.

For August & September we will have a breakfast ride on the third Saturday. These are intended to be individual rides to the restaurant meeting there about 8:30 - we will not be meeting at Legend's.

August 19...Fuglers Feed Trough & Market, 4049 FM1970, Carthage, TX 75633
September 16.....Tiffany's Restaurant at Lake Fork Marina, 275 Co Rd 1558, Alba, TX 75410

Other rides:

At least one club member is riding up to the Talimena State Park, Talimena, OK, for the Oklahoma BMW Rally, September 29 & 30. This is a camp out, the only fee is camping.
http://www.bmwmoa.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=894202

October
We are also working on an East Texas camp out at Boykin Springs campground, probably on the third weekend of October. We are working out the details. Please let me know if you want to play. There are toilets & showers at the campground, but no electricity.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/texas/recreation/hiking/recarea/?recid=30208&actid=71

November
We have the ranch near Cushing reserved again for a picnic for club members on Saturday, November 18th. We had a blast last fall. You can camp or just make it a day ride.

December
We'll head to the Moose Head Cafe in Crockett for pie on Saturday, December 30th.

If you have ideas for rides, send them my way.
 
We discovered today that the biggest fishing tournament of the year is happening this Saturday at Lake Fork Marina, and it will be very crowded with limited parking.

We are moving the Saturday morning ride to Richies in Hawkins, on U.S. 80, in between Mineola & Gladewater.

Hope to see you there around 8 or 8:30.
 
The October meeting of the East Texas BMW+ Motorcycle Club will be held this Thursday, the 5th at Legend's Burgers in Jacksonville (1630 S. Jackson) at 6:30 p.m.

Some of use are planning to camp out at Boykin Springs campground, near Zavalla, TX on Saturday the 21st. Ron will be leading a ride from Legend's at 9 am, heading to the Texas Star Cafe, 205 N Wheeler St, Colmesneil, TX, with a planned arrival of about 12:30. Afterward, anyone who wants to camp will head over to Boykin Springs. You can always just meet us at the cafe and skip the group ride. A couple of us might camp on Friday night. There are toilets & showers at the campground, but no electricity.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/texas/recreation/hiking/recarea/?recid=30208&actid=71

November
We will have a picnic for the club.

December
We'll head to the Moose Head Cafe in Crockett for pie on Saturday, December 30th.

Thanks,
Rich
 
Glen,

The ride is replaced with the picnic down by Looneyville on the 18th. Rich has directions there.

Ron
 
The December meeting of the East Texas BMW+ Motorcycle Club will be held this Thursday, the 7th at Legend's Burgers in Jacksonville (1630 S. Jackson) at 6:30 p.m.

On the 30th we will ride over to the Moose Head Cafe in Crockett for pie. We will leave from the Legend's at 9 a.m.

Finally, some of us will be heading up to Dallas for the IMS motorcycle show on the weekend of Feb 3rd.
http://www.motorcycleshows.com/city/dallas-tx-1

Hope to see you there,
Rich
 
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