BMW Riders of Oregon

NEED A SATURDAY FEBRUARY 07, 2026,

RIDE REASON?

Celebrate Bob Marley’s Birthday, 02/06/1945, with a group of riders at Ft Hoskins County Park. Begins at 11:45am and ends a couple of hours later.

The Twenty-Second year of this original NO HOST EVENT is a great excuse for a winter outing. (That means: NO HOST, No Rules, No formal invitation. 

You assume ALL personal RISK!!!!)

Riders bring their own food, drink, utensils, plates, cup, garbage bag and music to participate.

On Site: Covered Pavilion, picnic tables, charcoal grill to prepare your celebratory dinner. If you want to make it a potluck, bring something everyone will enjoy!

Directions: Head west from Corvallis on HWY 20. Go through Philomath and stay right on Hwy 20 a few miles. Turn North onto Hwy 223 @ Wren, OR. Hwy 223 goes to Kings Valley and Dallas OR. Go NORTH SIX [6] miles. Turn Left to Hoskins. There is a Fire Station opposite the turn. Fort Hoskins Sign is about a 1/4 mile after the turn. Go about a mile to the Park Entrance on the Right. Use FIRST GEAR at Park

Entrance! It’s paved but steep with a sharp RH turn almost immediately. Once past that, you’ll come to a hilltop car park. You’ll see the revelers and Pavilion.

GPS 44.675397 123.4542703

This is a Benton County Park. Ft Hoskins was sited there from 1856 to 1866.

Hope to see you there!

The new year brings a time for reflection and reassessment for many of us. In the club we seem to be at a crossroads regarding the future of the Beemer Beat in its present form.

We’ve been looking for a volunteer editor since August via requests, recruiting, and Deb Dackert eloquently presenting the current dilemma at the Annual Meeting. To date no one has stepped up.

The Beemer Beat has historically served us well as the primary means of communicating all club related information such as events, announcements, contact information and most importantly, articles contributed by individuals. It’s been a magazine par excellence produced with exceptional writing, editing, and graphic design. The evolution of this magazine however has been slowly degrading as members have been contributing less and less. We have anywhere between 225 and 450 members, depending on the time of year, and it has become painfully apparent that aside from ambassador ride reports, we now receive very few member contributions. It seems that members have shifted their attention to Facebook. The club Facebook page is easy to use, interactive and always entertains. It draws new postings from a wide range of our members on a very regular basis throughout the weeks. As a result of this shift, the editor and graphic designer have often resorted to copying photos and information from Facebook.

We’ve also found that in place of a magazine, many clubs use a newsletter format to disperse needed information to their members. They also utilize the forum tab of their website where members are free to post interesting writings.

We are in the process of examining all options regarding the transition of the Beemer Beat to a new format. As this is Deb’s final issue, the Beemer Beat will be on hiatus until we come to an optimum solution to best serve the club’s members.

- Mike Davis