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This means fellowship, good cheer, camaraderie, technical tips/articles, & lots more.

Need technical or repair help while on the road?  Just want to meet and have coffee with some fellow members?   The Club has these things available, and more, all covered by a yearly-published Dairectory (yes, that's how it is spelled) booklet (keep it on your motorcycle), containing all sorts of information, including a Membership contact list.  Each Member who elects to be in the Dairectory, whether the on-line version, or the printed booklet version, or both, can easily make his/her listing individualized.

You can send an E-mail note/inquiry to the Airheads LIST, and likely get FAST replies, even local physical, hands-on HELP!

The monthly Club magazine, AIRMAIL, has a technical tips section, called AIRTECH.  You will find a variety of questions & answers & sometimes a full-blown article on something.  There is also the Whair & When section you will want to look at every month or more.  Yeah, it is spelled that way.

AIRMAIL is NOT just a place for tech, but also for travel/trip stories; social event listings including TechDays, Campouts, Barley Therapy sessions; FREE classifieds; product finds & reviews; questions;  gathering of information; and, other BMW motorcycle related topics; but with a preponderance of attention for Airheads .

Advertisements in AIRMAIL are almost exclusively Airhead-oriented; often these products and services may not be advertised or easily found elsewhere's; even using an Internet-based search engine!

Most every issue of Airmail (12 issues per year) contains a list of all Airmarshal's, and how you can contact yours.  Airmarshal's are regional coordinators (to say the least...) ....that can do a lot for you.....

Some folks who live outside the USA do not join the Club, saying it is due to the higher cost of Club Membership (due to mailing costs for the Club's monthly publication), to their country.    No solution that seems acceptable to all has ever been found for Memberships outside the USA, although it has certainly been discussed considerably.  Club Dues are $30/yr in USA; $37/yr in Canada & Mexico; and $55/yr elsewhere.  $ is in USD.   YOU must decide if receiving 12 issues of AIRMAIL every year, receiving the Dairectory booklet, & supporting the Club, and its Airhead Central at Rallies, ETC. .....is valuable enough.   Some folks, even those living in the USA, who can easily afford a Membership, still prefer to be cheeep cheeeep cheeeeeep.   If you are value-conscious (aren't we all?), just one use of technical information, help, etc., can pay for many years of Membership.

The Club does NOT have any fancy high paid staff & organization. Except for the Airmail Editor, the Club is run by volunteers.  AIRMAIL's producer/Editor is a founding member of the Club, B. Jan Hoffman.   Jan's Airhead number is 1.

Club events are usually well-attended.  YOU could volunteer for something ....how about a TechDay at your house? A Ride? Arranging barley therapy? A dinner, a campout, or Bar-B-Q?  Organize or arrange something!   As earlier noted, we have Airmarshal's (that's what our regional/State/Country main contacts/coordinators are called) all over the world to help you.  You can see a list/date of Events in each issue of Airmail.

The Club usually has an "Airheads Central" at large rallies, such as the annual rally of the BMW Motorcycle Owners Of America.  The Airheads Beemer Club is chartered by MOA.  Airheads Central is a special place for YOU, & you might want to ask about how all that comfortable furniture got there in that big tent, & what happens to the furniture afterwards ...you WILL find that interesting ...and the information may well be possibly of some later personal interest for your use.   If you are at Airheads Central, be sure to immediately ask for Therapy (Barley therapy, that is).

If you can go to any of the Airheads Club events, DO GO.

If you have a thorny problem, or just want to learn more about your bike, why not organize a "FIX MY BIKE" TechDay at your place (I am NOT kidding).  List it in AIRMAIL; and on the Airheads LIST....and, also list it on https://www.airheads.org.

The ABC (Airhead Beemer Club) has eight Canons (comments ** are MINE):

(1) Airheads ride Beemers with air-cooled heads.
**When we use the word Airhead, we generally mean from the /5 ("Slash 5) models that began production in December 1969, through to the end of the Airheads production in 1995.  This is so, even though earlier models than the /5 were air-cooled.

(2) Airheads believe that the simplest engineering solutions are best.
**UNfortunately, that means that some pervert this idea, adding Foo-Foos, Farkles & Bling.  Despite the idea of simple engineering, some HAVE purchased & even still own an Oilhead, K, F; or, .....even other brands of bikes.

(3) Airheads appreciate function over form, fact over fiction, & friendship over friction.
**This is very much the norm for Club functions.

(4) Airheads regard money as a tool, not a status symbol.
**Your wallet contents WILL shrink if you purchase enough tools & spare parts, or simply MUST have another Airhead. We have humble wealthy Members, poor Members, Members without members (missing human parts)   .......& everything in-between.

(5) Airheads are earthy people who like to camp.
**Someone will even occasionally forego a delightful ride on their Airhead; instead, they will drive their pickup truck loaded with foodstuffs & cold beer to a Club campsite.  Airheads & wannabee Airhead owners are welcomed whether camping or not.   If you bring dark Porter or Stout, ...and I am there, ...please runneth some elixir into my Airhead mug or cup.

(6) Airheads maintain their own motorcycles.
**Some do this way better than others. Some are absolute beginners; others have years of experience at breaking things. Some have major work done by our few specialist Airhead "Gurus".  Many of those help, often mightily, on the Airheads LIST, the Facebook pages, ETC.   ....NONE of the Gurus have EVER broken ANYthing.... (and they all lie about it).

(7) Airheads don't take themselves, religion, or life too seriously.
**This does NOT mean they are against religion, or irreligious, just that personal seriousness about religion is just that, personal.  B. Jan, Airhead #1, added Canon #7.   He said this was to discourage some early members from proselytizing.

(8) Airheads like to share time, knowledge, parts & camaraderie with other Airheads.
**Some even return borrowed tools. (WHO still has my Kukko tools and box of shims?)   Some share dark beer/ale/cigars with me.  None have, so far, shared their women (or men) with me (Penny would frown). You could offer me a brewskie, cigar, or single malt Scotch, & see if my hand stretches out......((BTW....I do NOT drink 'n ride/drive)).