JUNE RUNS
Friday
5 General meeting. Club hall. 8.15pm SHARP.
Queens
b/d 6-7 Beechworth. 8am LEAVE Ford Factory.
Sunday
14
Sunday
21 Club Captain’s rid. 8.30am
KBCP
Sunday
28 Spectator day. Observed Trial. Mt Misery. 9am KBCP
JULY
Friday
3 General Meeting. Club
Hall 8.15pm SHARP. Film night.
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CONGRATULATIONS,
To Brendon and Sally on
the birth of their 3.4kg, daughter (Jodie Elizabeth) at 12.30 on May 12 at the
Royal Women’s Hospital.
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INVITATION
To attend a party to
celebrate Mick Fagan's 30th Birthday. All members welcome. Dress – Helmet, (except pregnant ladies and
kids). B.Y.O.G.
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NEW ADDRESS
Ian Taylor
RINGWOOD.
Phone – 870 6361
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RAFFLE
12 months subscription
of Motorcycle News (Green Horror) value $25.00.
tickets 50c each or 5 for
$2.00. DRAWN TONIGHT after
meeting. See Social Secretary BEFORE
MEETING.
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EDITORIAL JUNE 1981
This
month we would like to open by wishing the new committee a successful
year. We hope they will make a few
controversial proposals during the year so that we may have plenty of material
about which to write controversial Editorials!
As
of this month we are forwarding our mag to several interstate clubs with the
suggestion that they, in return, send us one of theirs. We hope that this interchange of mags will
occur on a regular basis. Besides
letting other clubs know what we are doing, and in return finding out what they
are doing it may pave the way for interstate friendships. If we are able to set up this interchange the
mags will be available for reading at monthly meetings. More on this next month.
Finally,
even though we have quite a good range of write ups this month, (a couple are
of non club activities) we notice there are still a few runs that have not been
reported. How about it then eh? You write it, we’ll print it!
Cheers
Faye
& Geoff.
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CLUB FEES
Dear
members,
Club
membership fees are now due and payable tonight. The only trouble is, I’m on my way to the
Alpine Rally as you read this. But don’t
despair; somebody up the front will have a list and an open hand. So go to it!
Failing
that, you can put the $6.00 in the post to:-
Treasurer
M.T.C.V
Nth
Sunshine 3020
Phil
Duffy
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ELECTIONS
Well members the Annual
General Elections were held on the May Club Night – or were they? The only position drawing interest being that
of Vice Captain with four hopeful candidates of whom Les Leahy was declared the
winner. The rest of the positions being
filled by the solitary nominee for each position. So there you have it, a report of the 1981
Club Committee Election. Below is the
new Committee line up for 1981.
President Keith Harris
Vice President Greg Smith
Secretary Marc Sulot
Treasurer Phillip Duffy
Social Secretary Debbie Snell
Assistant Secretary Phillip Andrews
Captain Chris Negus
Vice Captain Leslie Leahy
Keith
Harris
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FILM NIGHT!!!!
Saturday
13th June. 7pm start at
Social Secretary’s place.
Unit
17,
Box
Hill.
Phone
– 886 362
$1.50
per head. SUPPER INCLUDED.
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CAPTAINS COMMENT
You
will read in the magazine, the report on the Redesdale ride. I don’t wish to comment on the ride itself;
however, I feel that I would like to comment on the car accident mentioned.
In
the army, we were taught that teamwork was important above all other
things. The conduct of the club, at the
scene of the accident, was outstanding.
Everyone performed as would be expected of a trained team. Between the club members present we managed
to alert an ambulance, slow down oncoming traffic, and assist the victims and
the ambulance attendants and to give a coherent report to the police when they
arrived.
People
are quick to criticize club members, but not commend them on a job well done.
Well
done M.T.C.V
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WANTED
2
Pressley panniers to suit B.M.W. contact club captain. Phone 886 362.
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EX – PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Although
not an outstanding year (9 months actually) I feel the committee has performed
its function quite well. The resignation
by various committee members during the ‘year’ hasn’t helped the running of the
administrative side and the rumblings of a few members seemed to lead to a
slight dissatisfaction amongst a few.
Now
some might say I didn’t supply strong leadership and in some instances this is
true. I viewed the position as President
as one of co-ordination rather than a one man band. My approach has allowed free reign to any
member who wishes to express his ideas and in turn put them forward to the
general membership without imposing my own personal views. We therefore had such proposed amendments to
the constitution as the get you home fund and the issue of protective
clothing. We also have some changes to
the itinerary, as a result of differing tastes, e.g. the inclusion of such
spectator events as Mr Moto-cross and the observed trial.
Whether
or not my approach was a success depends on your point of view. One thing that is certain is that the last
‘year’ was a reflection on the club as a whole rather than a reflection on any
individual or group.
Keith
Finlay.
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EASTER WEEKEND -
It
was to be an early start, with a fair days travel ahead. Gary and I got up at 4am Friday morning
hoping to leave
Travelling
at a wise 100km over amphometers, we thought the club would have caught up to
us, seeing we were delayed. It was 1/30
at
The
National park was absolutely beautiful, main event being fishing, long nature
walks, monstrous dune climbs, skiffling and more fishing, (no fish were
caught!). Facilities were limited but a
quick dip in the sea was as good as a shower.
Ian,
Lyn, Mark and Paul left Monday morning, we stayed on till Tuesday, then back to
the rat race. Pity not many could make it, as
Andrea,
future (hope) Honda CG250 RS.
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FAMILY DAY 3rd
MAY
For
those who didn’t come it’s no point in reading the following story, for no
matter how much it makes you wish you had gone, you can’t! For those who went, there is no point in
ready the following story, for you were there and know what sort of a day it
was.
Having
eliminated the only 2 groups of people who are likely to read this story
i.e. those that did and those that
didn’t, I’ve decided not to write the story after all.
I
would however like to thank those members who took the effort to invite their
families, and would also like to thank those families who took the effort to
come.
Keith
Finlay.
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SNOOKER NIGHT – MAY 9th
Have been asked why the
activity scheduled on May 9 was called “Snooker night”. Appears that nobody played, snooker that is,
although at least one member was observed sitting in a corner (of the table?)
with his hands in his pockets????
During the night those
attending were apparently asked for 20c each. (Donations for supper?). One member was unable to oblige! Thirsty Bike?
Many thanks must be
extended to Christine Dawson’s parents for the use of their home. Wouldn’t hurt the club to send them a ‘thank
you’ card, that is, if it hasn’t already been done.
One further question
that has been posed is who gets the points for arranging the night, Christine
or Craig?
(signed) One who was
unable to attend.
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REDESDALE
– MAY 10th
We
left KBCP at about 10am on what would have been a fine day, except for cold and
drizzle. A quick zig zag through the
city, via the market and its Sunday morning crowds, and we were on our way up
the Tulla freeway. Just before Sunbury
we turn north and up through Romsey and Lancefield, to a confused stop at the
Tooborac intersection. A few groups
stopped along this section to slap on wet weather gear and check machinery;
alas, the joys of motorcycling.
We
stopped at Heathcote for morning tea or brunch, but it ended up being a twelve
o’clock lunch stop, and BMW convention.
Two of our number left to back home from this point. From here we headed to our destination via
Mia Mia, Redesdale... Redesdale? Oops,
overshot the runway a mite, and the turn off too.
A
quick ‘U’ turn and it’s back into Redesdale for another convention. A head count revealed that three bikes were
missing it turned out that a headlight popped from its socket and the others
stopped to assist. One more rider left
us at this point. Leaving eleven of us
to finish the ride. From here Fagan took
over as leader, on his road/trail BMW.
Shortly after setting off we turned down a dirt track. Along here someone slid at the edge of the
track at slow speed and dropped his machine.
It turned out that the road was blocked off. We could have crossed the creek bed and got
around it, but our leader in his wisdom, chose to go back to the bitumen. This was short lived however, and back on the
dirt we went past Myrtle Creek,
I
think I’m getting used to the dirt, even some of these blind ninety degree
sharp corners. Back onto a short bit of
bitumen and then back again onto dirt, up a little rise and into one of those
corners. Seemed like a good place for a
bit of a rear wheel lock, and yes. I knew it, it goes and locks on me. A few prayers and the corners behind me and
I’m still upright.
Out
onto the bitumen once more via the Emu Creek road and we headed south through
Sedgwick and Sutton Grange. Shortly
after pulling out on to the
We
had all stopped, and some assisted a doctor that stopped and the local Woodend
ambulance man, while some directed traffic.
The civil ambulance and police turned up together, surprisingly, the tow
trucks were late.
It
was here we ended up demobbing, and back to
Ross
CX500 CA
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FELLOW CLUB MEMBERS
Upon
thinking about the proposed and now viable proposition of occupying an allotted
area of floor space at the forth-coming M.R.A motorcycle show at the Camberwell
Civic Centre, I have come to the conclusion that the M.R.A and its ideals is
very blasé.
What
bring me to this conclusion are what I consider realistic observations.
1. The amount of money that has been quoted for
the rental of the site. It has varied
from $200 down to $70 and it now seems to be agreed upon that the rental will
be set at around the most popular figure (for us anyway) of next to nothing.
2. The amount of bitching and bellyaching about
the size of the area allotted, O.K. 70sq ft isn’t much but it is better than
nothing. We might be a large club but I
think we should be grateful for whatever we can get, and since the proposed
allotment is in the central floor area one would tend to think that we would
have a prime position.
3. In my 2 ½-3 years as a member of this club, I
have not seen any attempt by this club to help or associate with the M.R.A in
any way, which I feel is sad and reflects poorly upon the club itself. I have heard it said that people think that
the club is extremely self centred, and as this comment was passed to me by an
outsider, I will not speculate on its validity.
But it is a pity that this attitude is present.
I
feel that a remedy for the above mentioned observations would be that the club
takes a more active and supportive attitude towards the M.R.A and its
ideals. Some ways of doing this would
take the form of the M.T.C.V going on a poker run or a blood run or attending
M.R.A rallies as a club.
This
action would I think lift the club’s standing within the motorcycle movement
and therefore (hopefully) encourage new members to join us and promote what is
truly a great club.
To
those who are working to get the clubs standing going, good luck and I hope
that it brings the desired results.
Kevin
GL1000
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J.V.C
7 stage Graphic Equalizer $100.00
OR
SWAP FOR
Stereo
Tuner
Contact
Frank 88 2329.
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KEIFER RALLY APRIL 25-26
The
KEIFER RALLY is a rally only for BMW owners and all members of BMW CLUBS, which
makes it a little hard to get to if you don’t own a Be-emm. (Actually, it is easy enough to get to; it’s
just that you get railroaded on arrival. – ed.). You may be wondering why this article, on a
one make rally, is appearing in a magazine of an all makes club. COZ
it’s got something to do with bikes!!
Anyway
to the story. I, myself and my ego left
Friday night just after midnight (actually Sat morn) (amazing! –ED) straight
after work and headed nonstop to Jeparit for fuel (ANZAC DAY no PETROL), and
lost 25 minutes saying hello to the family.
They kept on mumbling something about 4 in the morning, or something to
that effect!
Dawn
appeared a little after Bordertown which meant the speed could be upped a
little. A quick refill at
Tootling
along (THRASHING), up hill and down dale, it became apparent that one was
entering a wind growing district.
Everywhere one looked there were little wineries, and some not so little.
My destination folks was the BAROSSA VALLEY S.A. To be more precise I was heading for
NURIOOTPA and hoping to get there before 10am.
The reason for the time you ask?
Simple, a PARADE starts from TANUNDA (3km away), at around 9am and ends
at Nuriootpa at around 10.30am. the
parade is in aid of the Wind Festival, which is held every odd year, and the
B.M.W owners club of S.A, using great foresight, organises their rally to
coincide with this festival weekend.
The
parade was a ripper, with plenty of novelty entrants and a lot of serious ones
decked out with flowers, girls, grapes, girls, wine and more girls. (Didn’t know that they made wine out of girls
– ED).
Having
loaded up with ammunition (grapes), I, along with about 30 other rally goers
waited for the best part of the parade to come along. Finally the best part arrived, approx 55
B.M.W bikes with riders and pillions. I
won’t go into detail but let me add that a few selected members of the group
tried out some grapes in solid rather than liquid form.
On
the rally site which was an old reservoir (empty thankfully). It was here that one understood the name of
the rally. KEIFER is I believe the
German name for PINE or
Saturday
night saw some films being shown and if one looked hard enough one could see
the odd B.M.W logo or two. Late on
Saturday night the usual rally presentations were made and surprise of
surprises Joy (currently residing in
Sunday
morning, rising late, we (Joy and I) packed up and left. We had lunch and did some sightseeing in
That
was the Keifer rally which by the way was a little unusual in that there was a
BMW R80 G/S demo bike ridden by all and sundry very thoughtfully provided by
Pitmans of Adelaide. That bike when it
is eventually sold, if it lives that long, will need some mighty fine
servicing.
Mick
R80 G/S
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EASTER IN
For
two years now there has been truly excellent weather in the Eastern States of
This
account is being prepared, not only for the members of the Four Owners clubs in
Easter
is a great time for bike riders in
The
rally site was well chosen at the Wyangala Dam, a huge water reserve which
holds 2 ½ times the water volume of Sydney Harbour, but due to three years of
drought in the area it was almost without water. However, the area is grand with a ring of
mountains around and stimulating twisty roads into the area. For those who also wanted to visit the races
at
I
had planned to set off with the Four Owners from
By
11am I had reached Cowra the last large town before taking the road to the
Dam. The scenery is spectacular, as is
all the mountain country of
There
is a large caravan park at Wyangala Dam and it was well occupied. However, the ranger had given the Four Owners
a site well clear of Mr & Mrs Average and we were given a site on top of a
hill well clear of everyone except one couple in a large caravan. When I arrived there were few bikes there,
and I was greeted by the friendly cheerful President of the Sydney Chapter,
Shane McCloy, who has a superbly equipped Suzy, with all the touring gear. The man who owned the caravan left and made
off in his four wheel drive for a day’s fishing.
During
the next few hours the members of the Sydney Chapter turned up in small groups
and sometimes singly, and then a huge group arrived from the Canberra
Chapter. Their diminutive but cheerful
and alert President, Keith Andrews, and his wife arrived along with an old
friend, Derek T., who has just purchased a Goldwing to use with a side car,
(for the new infant ... at least, new nearly a year ago). Ole
The
caravan owner returned to find his vehicle surrounded by bikes. Well, he should not have been there in the
first place; He exploded, “Bloody Hell”, and hitched up his van and made off
never to be seen again, and so we had the whole area to ourselves for a
while. Then a motorcycle touring club
from the
With
evening, three camp fires were lit up, one for
Conclusion
next mag,
Darren
GL1000
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Sign
on the wall of a university library: “Due to reorganisation, the basement will
be on the second floor. Half of the
second floor will be on the first floor, but half will remain on the second. First floor will move to the basement. We suggest you ask for help.”
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TRANSPORT
SQUEEZE
Ifeveryonemovedupabit
There’dbeaplaceforMEtosit.
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FAMILY DAY MAY 3rd
Both
“sets” of parents had been notified well in advance about the family day, and
the lunch menu requested, that is, carefully pointed out over numerous phone
conversations. We were looking forward
to the day as we hadn’t been on a club ride for a few weeks and lunch always taste
better when it is cooked and ready for you upon arrival. We even (gasp, gasp this is not a lie) washed
the B.M or rather, scraped great amounts of dirt off it and then washed
it. In a final fit of extravagance we
even polished the little devil. So all
was set for a good day’s riding and eating.
Well
the morning of said event dawned dark and wet.
Great I thought, what on earth do you do with a dozen motorcyclists and
their relatives on a wet day in
Upon
arrival at K.B.C.P I detected a note of blue in the sky. With glee I took my waterproofs off and lit
up a cigarette. Things were looking a
smidge brighter. About 10 bikes left the
K.B. with Smithy in his car. The ride
out was to be direct as parents, warm fires and sizzling snags were awaiting
us. Travelling out along the Burwood highway
we had Chris and Deb leading with Big D bringing up the rear.
Now
the weather wasn’t too bad; bit of rain and a lot of grey cloud but there was
that over hopeful patch of blue. Things
were progressing in an orderly fashion until we were just out of Ferntree
Gully. The road divided into two, the
main road continuing up towards Brendan and Sally’s place and the second,
towards the
Lunch
was a success and with a few more bikes and parents arriving we became quite a
little group. After lunch the Frisbee
started flying around with a few Frisbee-ers seeming to be hall bent on scoring
or should I say scalping parents, club members and babies alike. Several times prams and babies had to be
moved to escape the mad Frisbee flingers.
Meanwhile a cricket match was in progress indeed, we almost had enough
members to make up a full team. Many a
catch was caught and many a catch was not caught.
By
3.00 o’clock most people were starting to pack away their bar-b-q tongs and
talking about heading home. However, Ian
and I decided to stay back and keep Sally company, as her husband had wandered
off on a ‘bit of a walk’ and alas, taken the car keys. Most had by this time got themselves
organised and had headed back to Chris and Debs’ for coffee. Sometime later Brendan arrived back so it was
on with helmets and jackets and a decision on our best line of exit. Traffic was inevitably heavy as only Sunday
late afternoon traffic can be but this did not mar the fact that we had had a
good ride up to
Ian
& Lynne R90S
P.S.
Which club member takes delight in throwing a full cup of petrol on a fire
already ignited thusly succeeding in setting himself alight and creating quite
a spectacle for club members and others?
Good P.R?