BMW Club Oxford

My background Age 67, ex-military, then a consultant and manager in the financial services sector. Retired from full time employment in 2009. I live in Oxford with a very understanding wife and demanding black Labrador….

This is a bit of a challenge – can you write a post about your FIRST BMW motorcycle? Well this is a post about my first BMW a lovely red K100RS 8V. We purchased the…

  Wunderlich Easy Park – XXL As time goes by it seems to be a shared experience that garages/workshops shrink! Loving partners might gently point out it’s because you have TOO MUCH stuff and Marie…

There’s nothing unusual about buying a new Motorcycle so why I am telling you, the readers, about mine. It’s simple: – I can’t ride it and no one has seen it, all I can do…

Judging by the large number of motorcyclists who use Facebook groups this is a very popular way of communicating with friends and sharing motorcycle knowledge and experience. The BMW Club has a number of Facebook…

  I really look forward to our monthly Pub Social held at the Dashwood Arms, Piddington. Good company, good humour and good beer. For the present, the club’s ‘Meetup’ fellowship is hosting our cinema and…

One of our members told me that it was possible to cancel a booking made with Le Shuttle without losing our money. A group of us had planned a trip to the Black Forest in…

The Sunday of the BMW Club Oxford weekend in Cardigan proved to be the absolute best for both weather and riding conditions. Tim Read led a marvellous circular tour of Pembrokeshire. Tim had lived and…

  Some background I first came across Meetup when I was trying to find if anyone was organising mid-week rides in my area (Bucks). I’m a big fan of Maynard Hershon who writes in MSL….

During the Covid-19 restrictions riding our motorcycles is not possible, except for essential trips, so most of us have a very expensive piece of metal sitting in the garage. I expect we have all been…