Event info...
Downloads > Public MSTA Documents > Event Guidelines
I don’t know if there are any state or area MSTA groups that use Meetup, but there may be. We have this national forum and a national Facebook page. Many of the state groups also have a state FB group page and some of them use some type of email or yahoo group list server. Denny Drury is the National Events Coordinator and can supply you with any forms you might want to use.
The easiest way to get an event started, and the way I recommend for new events, is to just do what we call a “Just For Fun” event. Pick a hotel/campground/lodge/etc. that you want to use, pick a date (try not to pick a date when something else is already scheduled), get a block of rooms/sites set aside for attendees to use, and then publicize it on this forum. If you’re not a FB user, I’ll be happy to make sure the information is put there too, along with on the BMWRA website and on The Riding Obsession website run by Robin Dean. If you want to just send out invites to people in the New England area, you can find their contact information in the Member Directory. There’s a listing of State/Area Directors and their contact information in the Members Only section of this forum, so you can contact some of them and ask them to share the info with members in their area too. Many of the events try to organize a meal or two together and many of our larger events also provide self guided routes for attendees, but those are not mandatory things...can if you want, but nothing says you must do those things.
If you’re not wanting to do a full on weekend “event”, try starting out with just a lunch or breakfast meetup/ ride. Lots of our state/area groups do those on a monthly or even weekly basis and they have proven to be very popular with many of our members. Some pick one place and always meet there, others try someplace different each time.
There’s really no guidelines to what someone MUST do, only suggestions on how someone MIGHT do it.
