These are the people that have contributed to the club and helped to make it what it is today. The volunteers, staff, officers and trustees are helping to move the club into the future.

Roland Slabon
Trustee and Editor Emeritus

The club would not now exist without Roland's 32 years as the club's editor. His dedication to the club earned him BMW's prestigious Friend of the Marque award.

Jeffery Yost
President, Founder, Editor and Trustee

Jeff’s baptism into two-wheeled fantasy began during the adolescent age of five while riding pillion, helping deliver the South Bend Tribune to homes in SW Michigan, from the back of his big brother’s 1956 Sears Allstate (Puch) moped. It did not take long for his brother to trade up to a 1957 Triumph Cub. Jeff was barely six when his fantasy turned into an obsession after soloing the Triumph. Obsession turned into life long passion when his father purchased a dealer’s 1960 BMW R50 demo. Today, Jeff is the proud custodian of his late father’s unrestored R50.

His involvement in the Vintage club began in 1998. Recently, in 2010 Jeff led the VBMWMO’s reorganization in the State of Ohio and recruited a passionate cast of professionals to help manage the new organization. Jeff is also the Vice President, and BMW RA/USA Liaison, for the BMW Rider Association. Throughout his travels Jeff has established strong relationships within BMW NA, BMW Group Classic, and BMW USA.

Jeff and his wife, Donna, are recent Michigan transplants to the Atlanta area. Jeff is employed as a global commercial manager for a multibillion-dollar Atlanta based company. Both Jeff and Donna enjoy their new Southern home along with two rescue cats Myia and Izzy; two dogs, Gracie (Boarder Collie mix) and Higgins (Yorkshire Terrier); and two gelded horses, Kashmere (Polish Arabian) and Ishmael (Arabian). Today Donna has accumulated more animals than Jeff has BMWs. He’s working hard on changing this.

Debbi Harbour
Trustee, Club Office Administrator

Photo courtesy of Jeff Yost

George Nyktas
Treasurer and Trustee

I’ve loved motorbikes since I was an early teenager growing up in northern Ohio. I scrimped and saved until I could buy a Fox mini-bike at age 14. My heart was broken when it was stolen by a local kid who wanted it badly enough to take it from my garage. I bought a basket case 125cc Ducati in 1967 and managed to get it put together and running. I soon graduated to a 250 Scrambler that I loved. I took a break from motorcycling for several decades as a result of having three sons and never enough money to buy a bike.

I bought a K75 in 2002 and quickly found the Greater Cincinnati BMW Club (GCBMWC) and made many good friends there. I have and continue to learn a great deal about riding, bike maintenance and how to enjoy life from them as well as many others I have had the good fortune to meet. I soon graduated to an R1200C and then to a R1150RT. I became interested in older BMW’s and purchased an R90/6 with a Dnepr sidecar. It has been great fun to ride and work on. I am a member of the GCBMWC, the RA (where I am Treasurer), the MOA, Airheads Beemer Club and the AMA in addition to the Vintage Club.

I have been a CPA since 1973. Believe it or not, I actually enjoy the work I do. Not as much as motorcycling but pretty much never-the-less.

Hans Rosenstein
Trustee

Hans has been a two-wheel fan from age 4 and received his first “real” motorcycle, a 50s vintage 2-stroke UT, as a rolling basket from his father. He managed to take it apart, but unable to complete the reverse process, he traded it for a (barely) running NSU Fox, guaranteeing him permanently dirty fingernails. The blue-and-white flu hit him severely in 2001 and he has been unable to shake it off since. Current medication includes a R69S, a R90/2 conversion with Steib S250 and a R60 with a Spezial sidecar. Incredibly, after all this medication, he is still feverish for more.

When Hans is not fiddling with his bikes or driving his wife of 25 years crazy, he runs a multi-faceted media and television production company. He divides his time between Montreal, Toronto and Montepulciano in Tuscany.
(Photo courtesy of Jeffery Yost)

Darryl Richman
Trustee, VP and Webmaster

Darryl bought his first new bike, a 1981 BMW R65, on a Tuesday and returned to the dealer on Saturday for the 600 mile break in service. With that purchase, he suddenly went from an occasional rider to a full on rain-or-shine commuter and sport-tourer, with occasional track days thrown in. While living in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, he assembled a basket case R60/2, and had the same kind of light switch, AHA! experience from the first test ride. Since that time in 1996, he has been fascinated by the history, technology and engineering of BMW motorcycles.

In his 10th grade year in Los Angeles, Darryl had his first experience programming computers and has been doing so ever since. He has worked for software companies small and large, and now is in private consulting, mostly doing website work. This allows him to work from home and travel often. His wife, Heather, is a glass artist with a local following in their home town of Santa Cruz, California, and also in Riverside, where her family resides. They share their home with a Heinz 57 dog named Skippy, Bailey the cat and a yellow-backed lori named Kvetch.