Motorcycle Hill Climbing Capital of the World®
Join BMC on Facebook...Billings Motorcycle Club on Facebook
Premier 2010 BMC Season Sponsor - Montana Honda and Marine.
E-Updates
March 7, 2010
New Video from the 2009 Great American Championship Motorcycle Hill Climb
March 2, 2010
Nice video about women involved with motorcycle racing...a must see...YouTube video...
March 1, 2010
Montana Cross-Country motorcycle race series for 2010 announced. For more information, go to http://www.montanaxc.com
February 16, 2010
A tourism study was completed for the Billings Chamber of Commerce (Billings, MT), and a presentation was made on February 16, 2010 to the Convention Visitors Bureau with the results of the study. Despite troubling national economic conditions, tourism visits showed healthy in Montana and the Billings area. For the motorcycle community, even better news. The study identified that 6.27% of all visitors to the Billings area traveled by way of motorcycle! For all the motorcyclists that have come to Billings for a competition event, or for some of the amazing scenery and rides, such as Yellowstone Park, Beartooth Pass and Custer's Battlefield...THANK YOU ! ! ! We love it that you have chosen to spend some of your time and hard earned dollars to Ride The Big Sky®
February 10, 2010
Web Site Update! Check out the home page and photo page headers! BMC will be focusing on some of the wonderful members, events and families in 2010, and will honor them by having them show on the BMC home page. If you have a special photo or memory, please send them to Mike Marsh.
Now, is the snow about ready to melt so we can go riding?
January 28, 2010
January 30 is the Annual BMC Awards Party Please make plans to join us for a night of fun and fellowship at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Grand Ave this Saturday, January 30. We will have a no-host bar starting at 6:30 and dinner at 7:00 pm. We are asking that all the members bring a dish, either a hot dish, salad or dessert. There will be a prize for the best dish in each category. (Please remember to mark the bottom of your dish so it gets back to you!) The Play Inn is supplying fried chicken and pizza also. We hope to see all of you on Saturday to celebrate the 2009 Racing Season and all of our accomplishments.
Remember: Membership Forms are due February 3 Everyone should have recieved their forms so please dig them out and complete them. You can mail them back or bring them to the meeting on Feb 3. We will have a notary (Thanks to Sherri Ostermiller) available at this meeting. However to notarize signatures she will need all signers to be present (yep, husband and wife) and each to have photo Identification. Gate keys will change on March 3. If your membership forms, including your Additional Family Forms, are not completed correctly and turned in, you will NOT recieve the new key.
January 26, 2010
With some new technology provided by ZeeCreative of Billings, we are beginning to load new photos of BMC events and other interesting topics. The first batch to go up is from the Sand Drags - 2008 promoted by Josh Greni. This is a great event for the BMC and is truly something to watch. Go to the Sand Drags - 2008 photo page to browse the new pictures...
January 22, 2010
At 2:00 pm January 22, 2010, hundreds of people turned out at the Harvest Church ~ Lockwood Campus to say good bye to Mark Chamberlain.
Mr. Chamberlain's decades of contributions to the Billings Motorcycle Club were recognized, along with his deep love for his wife Darlene, children Shannon and Crystal, brother Merritt, sister Rachel and many grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Pastor Rob Griggs, a former BMC member as well, presided over the beautiful service. Mr. Chamberlain's love for others, high spirit, love of music and his many accomplishments will long be remembered. Mark, we'll miss you greatly.
Billings Motorcycle Club has long been a quiet but ardent supporter of Billings. Here is an article from the Billings Gazette (June 24, 2007) which provides an excellent insight into the club and its efforts to make Billings a motorcycle tourist destination...(pdf)
December 19, 2009
Billings Motorcycle Club is now of Facebook. Click here to sign up as a friend of the Billings Motorcycle Club on Facebook
Motorcycle Hill Climbing Capital of the World®
December 18, 2009
It's confirmed. The 2009 Great American has set another record. For 2009, we had 677 fully confirmed pre-entries. Riders from as far as California, Wisconsin, Colorado, Utah and Minnesota competed in the oldes, toughest and richest motorcycle hill climb in the United States along with many of the Montana-based pro and amateur athletes. Billings truly is the Motorcycle Hill Climbing Capital of the World®.
New Video! Three part series which shows highlights of the Great American Championship Motorcycle Hill Climb from 1933 through 2006 is on YouTube. Each section is 10 min long. Please share these historic videos with everyone that has interest in the Billings hill climb.
They are here! DVDs are available NOW for the 2008 BMC Year In Review and the 2008 Great American Championship Motorcycle Hill Climb. Go to the BMC Web Store to order, or call Mike at (406) 656-9960.
The Billings Motorcycle Club ("BMC") was established in 1914 in Billings, Montana. For nearly 100 years, despite geographical separation from much of the motorcycle world, Billings has remained on the leading edge of motorcycling. In fact, BMC was one of the first organizations in the United States to partner with the American Motorcyclist Association ("AMA"), receiving AMA Charter #15 in 1924, the year that the AMA was formed. BMC is also one of the only membership based clubs in the United States to acquire and own land for the riding, racing and off-road enjoyment of its members.
The club promotes a variety of competitive and non-competitive events each year. These range from club member only rides, such as the Easter Egg and Treasure Hunt for the kids, to motocross and arenacross events, cross country events, flat track events, up to the club's signature event, the Great American Championship Motorcycle Hill Climb. The Great American has led Billings to be known as the Motorcycle Hill Climbing Capital of the World™. Learn more about the many BMC events....
BMC is a member driven organization, with over 350 member families helping the club on a volunteer basis maintain the club-owned property, promote more than 20 competition events per year, and serve as ambassadors to the local community and region. It is a rare situation where such a large organization can function without paid management. But such is the case for BMC, where all club functions are handled by the BMC Board and its membership on a volunteer basis. Because of the volunteer nature of the club, the number of club memberships is limited. Learn more about BMC.....
The club has a history of community and regional involvement. BMC has throughout the years partnered with the Bureau of Land Management to assist with the maintanence of the South Hills, Ah Nei and other off road recreational areas. And as the promoter of the single largest motorsports event in the region, the Great American, BMC has reached out to the City of Billings and Yellowstone County to build relationships with local businesses, government, law enforcement and other organizations to assure an exciting and safe environment for those who attend. BMC is providing staffing and logistical support for RASE LLC for The Warm Up® Rally and Races. We are pleased to announce that The Warm Up® - 2008 was selected as one of the Chamber of Commerce's 'pick six' events in Billings for the second year in a row.
For nearly 100 years, BMC has been a proud member of the Billings community and an organization actively involved in the promotion of the sport of motorcycling. Thank you for visiting the BMC web site. If you have any questions, please feel free to send us a message by accessing the Contact link above. We hope that you find what you are looking for on our web site. Ride The Big Sky®!
Content and Photo Credits BMC thanks the following companies and individuals for providing the content and images displayed on the site:
Billings Gazette
Dirt Rider Magazine
Mike Kirkpatrick - CMI Photography
Michael J. Marsh
Recreational Action Sports Entertainment (RASE LLC)
Jim Polen
Dean Betzer
Logos, Trademarks, Slogans and Servicemarks are used and displayed with permission and remain property of their respective owners. Ride The Big Sky® and The Warm Up® are property of Recreational Action Sports Entertainment, LLC,
and used by B.M.C. on this site and in other publicity under a trademark license agreement with RASE, LLC.
All rights reserved. Opinions and comments expressed on this site are not necessarily those of the site creators.
No responsibility is taken for any such opinions and comments.
All materials (including, without limitation, all text, photographs, images, video and audio material) on this site are provided as a service to visitors and may be used for personal informational purposes only. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from the B.M.C. web site any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law. It is unlawful to use any material from this site for any purpose.
The B.M.C. is not responsible for the availability of external sites or resources linked to this site, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. The B.M.C. shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damages or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods, or services available on or through any such site or resource. Access to the B.M.C. web site and its content is provided without charge to users 'AS IS' and without warranty of any kind. The B.M.C. shall bear no responsibility or liability for any damages of any kind arising out of, or in connection with the use, copying or display of, content from this site.
Facebook...
