APRIL RUNS
Friday
3 General meeting. Club
hall 8.15pm sharp
Nominations.
Saturday
4 Service Day Craig Dawson's
Sunday
5 Secretary’s Tour K.B.C.P.
9.30
Sunday
12 Tarwin Lower. K.B.C.P.
9.00
Easter
w/end Leave Hallam 8.00 Pt.
Hicks. Camping weekend.
Sunday
26 Dereel 9.30 K.B.C.P.
MAY
Friday
1 Annual General Meeting
Club Hall 8.15pm SHARP.
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NOTE
The Easter Camp,
advertised as being held at Wingan Inlet, has been changed to Point Hicks as
Wingan Inlet is completely booked out.
Pt Hicks is situated on the Thurra River, south of Cann River. Access is via Cape Everard Rd. Limited facilities exist, e.g. fire places,
pit toilets tec. Water is available from
the river. Approx 30Km of unsealed road
must be traversed so watch out for sand traps (you know, usual unseen until
bike crosses up type.) Don’t be put off though, they will be no worse than
anywhere else along the Victorian Coast.
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GOSSIP
Who is the financial
member of the club who drives (and is suspected of owning) a Rolls-Royce?
Who fronted up at
K.B.C.P. at 3.30am last Wednesday? Did
you enjoy the ride to Rocket Lake? How
about you write us an article for the mag?
All contributions will be gratefully received.
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CLOSING
DATE FOR NEXT MAG IS THE 17TH APRIL
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EDITORIAL APRIL 1981
At last we have received
some correspondence from a member regarding our Editorials! The same letter also has a few comments about
the recent Captain’s resignation and the attitudes of the general
membership. Unfortunately the writer
failed to sign his/her letter so we have printed it in its entirety, exactly as
written. Refer page 3
Whilst we welcome
criticism, it keeps us on our toes and lets us know what you, the member, feels
about our comments, we feel that the critique should have sufficient confidence
in his/her criticism to at least provide a signature. We don’t feel that anyone will hold a grudge
(or resort to physical violence) when the Mickey gets taken out of them. Besides, now we know at least one person
reads the mag! (It’s not all in vain
after all!)
We’ve heard that on a
recent Cathedral Lane run one lady rider had considerable difficulty negotiating
the rather prolific quantities of rocks on the mongrel hill. Seems that she crashed a couple of
considerate members picked her and the bike up, offered advice, got her back on
the bike and away up the hill, where-upon she promptly crashed again! Repeat the procedure ad-infinitum, till
eventually all got to the top.
Terrific! Precisely what club
riding is all about. Those that find the
run a ‘piece-o-piss’ helping those that wish to Christ they thought so
too! Good, healthy club attitude, BUT,
we’ve also heard that one person stated that the same lady should not have been
allowed to participate in the run because she lacked experience to handle the
condition and therefore was holding everyone up. Unless one participates in runs how does one
gain the necessary experience to participate in these runs? (Think about it
---it does make sense!) Besides, where
was everyone going in such a hell of a hurry that they couldn’t spare the time
to help a fellow rider!
Bye for now
Faye and Geoff.
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NOTICE OF MOTION TO
AMEND CONSTITUTION
The
following proposed amendment to SECTION 14 of the Constitution is suggested by
the committee.
SECTION
14 sub-section (b) the amendment shall read;
Always
proving such disablement occurs –
Whilst
travelling with the club on an official club function,
Whilst
travelling to or from an official club function whether or not there is a
stated leaving time or place for the club.
Provided
such route taken is the most practical or whilst travelling in the company of
other club members on any run originating from an official club function.
NOTE:
for interpretation purposes the words ‘official function’ shall include any
club activity printed in the Itinerary or included in the club magazine under
the heading Itinerary.
The
above amendment is proposed to cover such claims made upon the ‘FUND’
originating from such events as may occur from members travelling to a club
camp or other official functions at times other than those printed in the
Itinerary and to cover instances where a member participates in a ride
originating from an official function. E.g. a day tour of the area surrounding
a club camp or similar activity.
SECOND PROPSED
ADMENDMENT TO SECTION 14
I
further propose to move that the word MECHANICALLY be removed from sub-sections
(a) and (I) of section 14 and the whole of sub-section (d)2 also be removed.
The
above amendment is proposed to enable claims to be made against the ‘FUND’ in
such cases of machine disablement not directly attributed to an electrical/mechanical
fault or a puncture related spill.
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As
you will realize if adopted these amendments will greatly increase the benefits
of club membership; in as much as you will be covered by the ‘FUND’ when and if
your machine is disabled anywhere, anytime provided you are engaged in some
club activity.
As
these proposed amendments involve a major constitutional change, I will move
the amendments at the APRIL general meeting.
There by giving all members the opportunity to study the proposals
carefully before having to cast their vote.
Keith
Finlay
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RESIGNATION CLUB CAPTAIN
As
stated in the Constitution, the Club Captain’s job is to insure safety to club
rides. The proposal put to the general meeting i.e., to in force that all parts
of the body be covered with some form of clothing, relates to a degree would
have helped save possible injury to riders and pillions alike. The fact that this proposal was rejected,
perhaps I should say the manner in which the members rejected the
proposal, I feel I cannot carry out my job to the fullest.
I
would like to remind members that a position on the Committee is a voluntary
thing, not a breeze as quite a few members seem to think. Any position is time consuming and requires a
great deal of thought and effort, (if you are to do the job properly) is needed
to run the club in a satisfactory manner.
For
those members whom take delight in continual non-constructive criticism, may I
suggest that they nominate themselves for the May elections and forget their
usual excuses as why they can’t.
There
are certain members who continually write incorrect articles relating to new
proposals and other general club gossip.
I’d like to point out that these articles, while in content are factual,
always seem to be blown out of all proportion – perhaps they fancy themselves
as budding journalists for the “Sun” or the “Herald”.
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ANGELSEA Feb 1st
With
the promise of fine weather a run in the direction of Anglesea seemed too good
to miss, hence a crowd approaching 25 persons must have been waiting at K.B.C.P
looking forward to a swim and the chance of a ride along the G.O.R (Great Ocean
Road)
The
crowd included several visitors including the lady from Queensland on the pink
BMW and a couple of Americans travelling with Darren in his car.
Craig
led the run towards Geelong and although the highway traffic was fairly heavy a
safe and steady speed around 100km/hr soon saw us stopping in Geelong. After a very lengthy delay we were off
towards Anglesea, twist grips rotated considerably further. On this stretch Lyn tried the back seat of
the Ducati to see if it was as comfortable as initial impressions suggested. (Ask her if it was if you want to know?) At Anglesea shortly passed the town centre a
group of bikes stopped and as the numbers grew those stopping thought it was
the official Anglesea stop. However, it
was soon realized it was just a temporary halt to watch Brian Melisse’s RS BMW
begin self destructing by blowing its headlight glass into pieces on the
road. However listening to the learned
BMW riders expounding on why this was so, was about as exciting as watching a
chook in a rotisserie so we headed off and found Craig at the beach car park.
Lunched
and refreshed most of us took to the beach while a couple headed for the
GOR. The old ‘get changed inside your
towel’ trick caused a bit of furore when announced ‘my bikini is on backwards’. Anyrate the afternoon passed quickly and
pleasantly with people laying on the beach, eyeballing the girls, playing
cricket, eyeballing the girls, swimming and loud advice from Mick to a bloke
who’d been mauling his girlfriend all afternoon.
Around
3.30 we headed for Lorne. It was really
pleasant and I think everyone enjoyed that ride. The Deans Marsh exit is a bit hard to see as
you enter Lorne form the Melbourne side and Craig missed it so after discussion
I led the run to Geelong. The road
climbing out of Lorne is, I find a bit tight bumpy and nasty and I found it
rather annoying on this section to find a gold RS hovering around my rear
wheel. I would like to draw its rider’s
attention to our road rules. Anyrate
soon the road opens up into big flowing sweepers where the Ducati just loped
along. All too soon we were back on the
highway heading for a service station at Geelong where we dispersed.
I
think everyone enjoyed the run and even after the dispersal point the high that
exists after a good ride continues as glimpses of the other bikes are caught on
the way home.
Brendon
Ducati 750 GT
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B.B.Q AND NIGHT RIDE FEB
7th
After
reading the latest mag when brought home I noticed the great lack of stories,
which has prompted me to try to give my views on the night ride. We arrived at the barbecue which was yummy,
and I noticed that there were not as many bikes as I had expected, as it was a
beautiful day and promised to be a lovely night. What is the matter with all you slackers, are
you afraid of getting frost bite or something?
We left about 8pm through Kinglake and surrounding district ending up at
Healesville where our leader took a wrong turn.
He noticed this about 1km or so up the road and turned around. We continued on the trip so far no dirt, and
I thought, ‘how lovely for a change’. I
should have known better. Heading
towards Mt Dandenong along back roads, I thought I must have taken a wrong turn,
as it got very black and the road turned to dirt. I continued along for a while and when no-one
came along, I worried that I had taken and started back. Some one, I can’t think who now, came along
and said it was the right road, so along we went. We arrived at Mt Dandenong and found a nice
spot that must have been arranged upstairs, because there was not much space
left with all the cars there.
Everyone
dismounted and had a look see, spoke to the law, who are very sneaky, driving
around in cars with roof racks and not looking like cops. We stayed there about half an hour or so and
then left for home or pizza, whichever you decided to do. On the whole, I love the night rides and wish
that they would have more during the summer months when the nights are not as
stinking hot as the days.
Robyn
KAWA 650
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Definition
of a Committee?
A
group of people who individually con do nothing, but collectively can meet and
decide that nothing can be done.
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JERUSALAM CREEK FEB 22nd
(Or) if God were a motorcyclist he would have been
a Hell of a rider!!!
The
day started like a normal Melbourne morning, damp, cold, misty, radar
everywhere and lots of four wheeled tin boxes.
Apart from all this it was good to be on the road. Upon arriving in the city about ten bikes
were already waiting; we had a dozen or so bikes on the ride itself including
three visitors. We rode out on the F19
freeway towards Christmas Hills and back across to Healesville via some great
back roads; some of us had to take it a little easy as the roads were damp.
Very
thick mist on the road to Healesville made riding extremely hazardous as mud
and gravel were also present on the road surface, a fairly slow ride through
the Black Spur took us out of the moist precipitation into a warm, sunny
climate (must have crossed the state border)
Lunch
was devoured at Eildon which is a hop, step and a jump from the end of our
journey but we didn’t make it without any upset. (Incidentally, the take away at Eildon is
super slow and I ended up throwing away half of my steak sandwich when I did
get it), anyway...one of the visitors on the ’P’ plated Yamaha 400 got a bit
carried away just half a mile from journey’s end and went wide on a sharp left
hand corner; unfortunately colliding with the boat trailer.
She
was shaken, the bike slightly bent and the trailer sustained two
punctures. After a quick repair job on
the bike we helped change the flat tyres on the trailer as the driver didn’t
have a good enough jack. (Many hands make light work) I even had problems myself executing a super
fast ‘U’ turn and managed to jam my front wheel into a small tree which
wouldn’t let go.
We
regrouped at the creek itself, completed the repairs on the Yamaha, had a
drink, a rest and a chat. An easy
straight forward ride home was in order; this included the Black Spur
again. Not to be out done Craig also ran
wide, off the road and down a ditch. No
damage to either bike or rider so we continued to Healesville where we
dispersed.
Some
of the club returned to Craig’s place via more back roads (I say that lightly),
where we saw the last of the Castrol Six Hour race and a refreshing cuppa. On route to Craig’s place Tony’s Honda 650
rolled off its side stand and broke two indicators, the third bike down for the
day.
A
good ride and a memorable day, it’s not every day I’m accused of malpractice
while riding my motorcycle.
Dave
75/6 and Duke
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DRIVE-IN FEB 28th
I
snuck out of home early to get away from the screaming kids, and go to the KBCP
at twenty to seven to wait for the crowds to arrive at their leisure. The
weather on the day had been hot and the evening had promised to be pleasant
seeing as we would be sitting in the open.
At seven fifteen Craig arrived followed by a new chap on a beige RS
BMW. Craig produced a sun and a quick
perusal there of confirmed our suspicions that the choice would be very
limited, ie shit shit or Mad Max, guess who won? Then it was our with Craig’s chalk to leave a
message on the wall for Smithy but we needn’t have bothered because Smithy was
playing with his trains up Seymour way.
Craig
decided he had better things to do because of the roll up, (feed the baby,
sleep etc etc) and left us two to fumble alone.
We decided to disperse with the corner marker system there was only a
leader (me) and a rear rider (him). Ride
was reasonably quick considering traffic out to Croydon twin drive-in. The queue was only about 200 meters long and
it took about 15 minutes to pay our bread and get in. At first I thought all speakers were broken
but they were those new style radio clip on things. Now we didn’t have radios with us, so we
scouted around and found the speakers up the front. We settled in beside a guy and his girlfriend
on a couple of 250 Yams and proceeded to watch one of the most action filled
show I have ever seen. The bikies were
portrayed with a little more depth than usual case and the acting in general
was really good. One of the best low
budget Australian films I have ever seen.
I can understand why it grossed millions in the USA.
Munchies
were the next event after a twenty minute wait for the crowds to clear. The second feature was a thing called SLAVES
set in Africa in Victorian times there were plenty of bums and boobs and T.V.’s
Tarzan getting around putting shit on the natives. About midnight things wound up and we made it
back to the city at slightly less than frantic speed (we were running a bit
late going there) and went our separate ways in King St. It was a bit of a shame we did not have more
starters, but those that went enjoyed it as least I did and I was 50% of the
turn up.
Phil
Goldwing and Chair.
P.S. the chair was a lot more comfortable to sit
in than the BM seat was to sit on.
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NAGAMBIE MARCH 1st
Thirteen
bikes turned up for our trip to ‘Nagambie’.
Ian is leading on his BMW while Bruce on a 240cc, relegated to
rear. Heading out via Romsey and
Lancefield and on to the turn off to Heathcote, where we stopped for drinks and
icy poles. The weather is quite
warm. On leaving Heathcote we go a
couple of kilometres down the road taking the Nagambie turn off, where the ride
was quite pleasant until I saw a front end loader coming slowly around the bend
and a white ute pulling out to pass him, but when he saw me throwing antics he
pulled back pretty smartly. Plus I had
my headlight on! We went quite away
before hitting Nagambie where we pulled up outside a shop, got our lunch, and
walked over to the nature strip and sat under the shade of a big tree and
ate. One guy bought half a water melon
which he shared with the members. Every
now and then you had to close your eyes to combat the dust that was coming up
the street. Marc arrives having come another way. After lunch we all went for a swim in the
lake at a nice spot called Picnic Reserve.
Some swam, while others relaxed, and I had brought a ball along. The water was nice, once you got in, as it
was very cold. The scenery seemed to be
somewhat of an attraction. On leaving we
made our way back to the shop for drinks before heading home. Down to Seymour, then after taking the
Tallarook turn off, up to Yea on to the Flowerdale road, which still has some
lovely long sweepers, through Kinglake to Whittlesea, where we stopped and
dispersed. After a good days riding and
Ian was doing a superb job of leading the group and credits given to Craig for
looking after us while out on the road.
‘Big
Daddy’
750/4
and R65
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