Monterey Bay BMW Riders

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A flight of fancy in the Inter-mountain West

Clubs/Organizations
BMW Model Specific Pages
Mailing Lists, Personal Pages, FAQs, Encyclopedias
Webrings
Clothing
Communicators—radios & intercoms
Dealerships, Mechanics, and Shops
Fairings/Windshields
Helmets
Insurance
Junk Yards, Used Parts
Local (Monterey Bay area) interest
Luggage
Manufacturers
Meeting Places/Campgrounds/Eateries, Etc.
Member's Home Pages
Museums and Showrooms
Newsletters, Blogs, E-zines, Etc.
Parts/Accessories
Riding Schools
Saddles
Suspension
Tires
Tours, Rentals, and Resources for independent traveller
Trailers

Clubs/Organizations

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BMW MOA - Motorcycle Owners of America—The national org.
A list of BMW MOA chartered clubs can be found here
BMW Riders Association International—The other national org.
A list of BMW RA chartered clubs can be found here
BMW Club of Northern California
Central California BMW Riders
River City Beemers BMW Motorcycle Club—a highly entertaining and useful website; check out the FAQs
Airheads Beemer Club — Simple folks
Oilheads Beemer Club
BMW Club of Southern California
South Coast BMW Riders Club
Internet BMW Riders — Here's your chance to become President.
Unorganized BMW Motorcycle Club of Western Colorado

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Ride to work!—Just don't not do it, even if you don't have a job
AMA - American Motorcyclist Association
American Voyager Association (Kawasaki Voyager Owners)
IBMC - International Brotherhood Of Motorcycle Campers
Monterey Bay Classic European Motorcycle Club
PITS - Phoenix International Touring Society
Rolling Broccoli Riders
Santa Cruz Vampires Motorcycle and Scooter Club
Salinas Ramblers Motorcyle Club—founded in 1934 and still going strong.
Dangerous Curves
Women On Wheels
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BMW Model Specific Pages

BMW F650 info from The Chain Gang This may be the most comprehensive and helpful model-specific site anywhere. Steering head bearing toast? This is the place to look
BMW G/S and GS
Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners, Ltd. — You remember: Black and white and rode all over.
Slash2 - Vintage BMWs
/5 United - BMW Motorcycle Enthusiasts
BMWSportTouring — Not limited to the BMW RT, but that appears to be the main focus
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Webrings

Webring portal — Search for "motorcycles" and you'll get a about 200 webrings
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Mailing lists, personal pages, FAQs, encyclopedias

micapeak.com—For those of you who remember the early days of moto info on the Web: it's a lot of mailing lists, sure, but a lot more. Useful stuff.
Flames on My Tank—Hard to classify but worth a visit; touring tips, moto info, how to take your bike on the train from Johannesburg to Cape Town, 2-wheeling from a South African perspective.
pashnit.com—"For the love of the ride." Used to be a wonderful site; unfortunately, much of the site now requires membership. Heck, we can't even email them to tell them they've got the wrong address for this club.
Timberwoof's Motorcycle FAQ and California Laws About Motor Vehicle Lights — Timberwoof tells you what color your reflectors can be.
Tom Hundt's Infomonger Motorcycle Page. — Lots and lots o' links with a San Francisco flavor.
Wanderlust Writings — "The Ride is the Reason." Sam Lepore's excellent travel journals, 1997-2002.
CalRiders.Com — Moto info focused on Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Mendocino, and Lake counties.
Bikez.com "Motorcycle Encyclopedia" — long on data, a little short on information
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Clothing

Aerostich Riderwearhouse Catalog—What can we say? The 'Stich is practically the BMW riders' uniform
Biker's Emporium—"Ride Hard, Ride Safe," leather goods and a lot more
Firstgear
Classic Motorcycle Jackets—Searching for that James Dean look? You can have it in cowhide or goatskin.
Gerbing's Heated Clothing
Johnson Leathers
Langlitz Leathers
Motoport U.S.A.
Roadgear�
Silver Eagle Outfitters—high-performance cooling apparel
Tour Master
Vanson Leathers
Widder
Z Custom Leathers
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Communicators: bike-to-bike, rider-to-passenger

Autocom
Chatterbox (good news, the site is no longer an absolute mess.)
Cycle Stuff—US distributors of the IntaRide communications system. Tell 'em you're an MBBR member (you are a member, aren't you?) and John will give you a 5% discount.
MotoComm distributors—Convenient conversations, reasonbly priced
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Junk Yards, Used Parts

Beemer Boneyard — specializing in used oilhead and K-bike parts
Parts Haus — in Long Beach, BMW motorcycle parts and restoration sevices
DMOZ Open Directory list of salvage yards — Alphabetical global list ("West Coast Salvage" is located in Merseyside, UK)
BikersIndex.com list of salavage yards — A lot of broken links, but it's a starting point.
MotoDirectory.com list of salvage yardssome broken links but more up-to-date that BikersIndex
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Local (Monterey Bay) Interest—not necessarily moto-related

Lime Kiln Legacies, the History of the Lime Industry in Santa Cruz County, California. Local history book.
Hiking in Big Sur — get off your bike and take to the woods. This handsome and informative site will help you get closer to the South Coast.

Luggage

Bagster
Givi
Jesse Luggage
Mag's Bags
RevPack
RKA
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Manufacturers

Yahoo! Directory of Motorcycle Makers — a well-organized list of 70+ links (Occasionally out of date.)
Aprilia
ATK
BMW
Britten
Buell
Chang Jiang—How about a replica of a pre-WWII BMW R71? They make 'em.
Ducati
Harley-Davidson
Honda
Husqvarna
Kawasaki
KTM
Moto Guzzi
MZ Motorrad (MuZ) The site will probably come up in German but there's an English-language link on the home page.
Victory (Polaris)
Suzuki
Triumph
Ural—Looking for a shaft-drive bike that can't fall over? Great website: camo sidecars along with cartoons and movies, even.
Yamaha
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Meeting Places/Campgrounds/Eateries, Etc.

Songdog Ranch Campground Woof! [It's a good idea to check on the current status of camping at Song Dog. You're a friend of the family, right?]
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Member's Home Pages

Darryl Richman
Mike Clark
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Museums and Showrooms

Canepa Design, Scotts Valley — mostly cars but some interesting motorcycles, too. An album of photos can be found here.
Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum
Solvang Vintage Motorcycle Museum
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Newsletters, Blogs, E-zines, Etc.

City Bike — San Francisco's free moto-mag. Some of the best motorcycle writing can be found here.
The Kneeslider — Hard to categorize, this is one of the most-interesting motorcycle sites on the Web.
Motorcycle Consumer News — No advertising to cloud the issue.
Motorcycle Online
MotorWorld Online
Southwest Bike Travel Zine
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Parts/Accessories

Air Rider
Bing Carburetors
Cee Bailey's Aircraft Plastics—Don't let the name spook you, they've got windsields and bag liners for most newer model BMWs
Eurotech Motor Sports
Hookijac Performance Products—Put some sparkle and pep into your R1200C
K&N Filters
MR Motorcycle—parts for your Hondakawazuki (and some BMW stuff)
Nippy Norman—A UK source for your BMW lighting needs
RBR Manufacturing (light bars)
RideSafer.com—What's better than riding safe? Riding safer, of course.
SAENG/TA
Sargent Cycle Products
Schneider's Inc.
SCA—ease the task of adjusting your oilhead's valves.
Twisted Throttle—sport and adventure touring equipment. How about a 139dB horn to move that cell-phone talker out of the fast lane?
Yuasa Batteries
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