October Meeting Notes
🍁Happy Fall & Halloween BMMC! 🎃
🥳New Members 🥳- no new members this month. Several guests - Dave & Kathy Garagano , and Ron Thompson brought his buddy Ron.
📚Review of Last Month📚- 54 people at our Sept breakfast meeting on the 6th and a great dinner at the Creek on the 17th. A nice ride to Cottonwood with beautiful weather. A good lunch and Black Bear Diner and Curtis gave the milkshakes a 10! Thanks for hosting Curtis!
🕦Up & Coming🕦- on the 15th we have the dinner social, please rsvp if you are coming. On Oct 17th, we have our last overnight for the year with our Cool Cats ride to Palm Springs, CA. We are riding through Wickenburg and on to Blythe for lunch and finally stopping in downtown Palm Springs. We will be on I-10 for a good potion due to the length of the ride, but making sure to take back roads where we can to make the ride enjoyable. There is a ride to Big Bear lake at 9am on Saturday, and also the opportunity instead to do a tour of at Peter Rabbit Farms with John Robey in the AM and then a ride on the Palm Springs tram on the afternoon. Look for more details soon.
November 11th is the Veterans Day ride with lunch at Dylan’s. November 15th is a ride to Queen Creek Olive mills.
Our birds on bikes ride is a little different this year. Normally in November on a weekend, but they asking for us to do it on a weekday instead. So this year we will be encouraging donations. Gerry Russell will be coordinating. The annual Christmas party is back at the Armenian church on December 6th this year with Thaddeus Rose as our band. Tickets are $80/person and we have a hotel with good rates nearby. Lastly the frosty balls ride on the 20th to the River Bottom.
🏍️Challenge Rides 🏍️- Mark & Wayne talked about challenge rides. Some club members do this more regularly. The Four corners ride is just under 2,000 mile. You have 7 days to complete it with gas receipts along the way. You can do this anytime, it is not on a specific date. Have fun and you can even earn a BMMC four corners T-shirt!
Please talk to Mark Boster and Wayne Winslow for more information. They even have GPX files even to help you.
📋 Ride Survey 📋
We will also be sending the ride survey for 2026 out later today. Please submit your ideas. The board will meet, discuss all ideas, and decide on the ride calendar later this year.
Ride hosts - WE WANT YOU! You do not have to host if you suggest a ride but we are asking more people to dive in, volunteer, and host a ride. We need your help and do not be hesitant. We have so many people to help you.
🗳️Elections 🗳️
Voting begins today and goes from 10/11-10/25. Winners announced at November breakfast meeting.
📋 Member Survey 📋
We received the results from the member survey. Thank you to those of you that completed it, your opinion matters. We received some great responses from 35% of the members. we know we can do better so please try to give us your feedback next time.
The boards role is to guide the club and make decisions for the larger group. In the last few years we have not received a lot of feedback on what’s working/not working. They survey helped and we heard you. We saw a theme and know that we need to do a better job communicating. One good thing is:
- We will communicate better about more day rides/ telling you about them on Saturdays after the meeting and lunch day rides during the week.
- Please be sure to check out the GROUPS section on the website for impromptu rides. This is the previous FORUM page.
The club will be meeting again this year to dive deeper in to the results. Stay tuned.
For -those interested - Tom Clements has posted a lunch ride this Tuesday to Sedona. Anyone is welcome to join. Meet up at McDonalds on Carefree Hwy & I17.
🇺🇸Veterans🇺🇸 - Mickey brought some cards for us to fill out for USASOA. The group sends cards to military personnel around the world. Thank you to those at the meeting who filled out cards. We appreciate your support.
💃WOW!! 💃- The ladies got together at Wendy’s place and had a great time! Don’t forget the wow meeting is on Wednesday the 29th of the month. Stay tuned for details.
🎊 Birthdays 🎈- Gene Adee, John & Dawn Barnett, Ray Given, Mark Hammer, Shelly Hutcheson, James Lapointe, Sam Levitin, Robert Martinez, Dave Mast, Lucy Alagna, Doreen Winikates, Betsy Wheeler, Shimon Glasser, Pam Clements, Milina Slepak.
💵50/50 Winners 💵- Ron Nagel & Joe Sarnaski won $130 each. Mike Calantropio also won a breast cancer awareness gift.
Ride safe everyone!
