SEPTEMBER RUNS
Sunday
6 Maryborough Wattle
Festival. (we think) 9am KBCP.
Sunday
13 Navigation &
Reliability Trial.
(set by Marc
& Tom). 9am KBCP.
Sunday
20 Paul Smith’s special tour.
9am KBCP.
Sunday
27 fuel Economy Ride. 10.15am
SHARP, Lilydale only.
(bring empty
petrol container). More details on page 3.
OCTOBER
Friday
2 General Meeting. Club
Hall 8.15pm SHARP.
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CLOSING DATE FOR ATICLES FOR NEXT MAG IS
18.9.81.
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FILM NIGHT
Saturday 19th
September. 7.30pm. At social secretaries place.
Unit 17/28-36 James St,
Box Hill. Phone 88 6362
$1.50 per head. Supper included.
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EDITORIAL – SEPTEMBER 1981
As usual when we sit
down to scrawl out an Editorial we have to decide whether or not it will be
positive or negative! Which will be
first? Negative – lets razz the
members. Over the last month, each day
we have eagerly awaited the arrival of the postie, to see what literary genius
we would have to print in this mag. Prior
to the closing date, what did we get? – S.F.A.!
Now, we have no doubt that most of you walk in the door and expect to
pick up a mag that will, at least, give you 10 or 15 minutes interesting
reading. Right? Right, who do you think
writes this mag? – YOU BLOODY DO! So, if the current trend continues don’t be
surprised if one night you walk in the door and can only find a single sheet of
paper that says “this is the mag but there isn’t anything to read!” We edit, not write, that’s up to you. If you are asked to write up a run, please do
it, and forward it to us as, A.S.A.P Mail it, bring it, you are always welcome
here. On the positive side, two members,
upon hearing that we were lacking material for this mag, sat down and produced
articles virtually on the spot! Many
thanks to Mick and Tony. We also
received a further write-up by mail, some 4 days after the closing date. This would normally be held over to the next
mag but due to lack of material for this one we included it in this mag. Now we’ve got even less for next month!
On the subject of Mags,
a couple of months ago we sent a copy of our mag along with a letter
(suggesting a regular interchange of mags) to a Touring Club of each
State. So far, only 2 clubs have
responded. One with a letter agreeing to
the interchange plus, of course a copy of their current mag, the other just
with a mag. To the S.A. Tourers and
MTCQ, our thanks, now you, like us, can see what riders with similar interests
in other States are doing. To our own
members, these mags will be available to you to read at meetings.
Whilst on the positive
side, we feel a few comments on the demise of a British registered GL1100
during the O’Briens Crossing run worthy of comment. Sure the damage to the machine is not
positive but we feel the actions of the members afterwards is very
positive. The pillion rider was promptly
ferried to Tony’s place (a couple of K’s), given coffee and generally settled
down, hopefully reducing the effects of shock. The rider was given more than
enough assistance to retrieve the remains (the major proportion of which was in
the creek) and eventually the machine was ridden, albeit rather slowly, to
Tony’s place by another rider. The
damaged machine was left at Tony’s, the owner and passenger being ferried home
by others. One can only compliment all
present for their efforts.
Finally, if you think
that this Editorial seems to go on and on, well, we did have to fill the mag up
with something!
Cheers Faye & Geoff.
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INFORMATION FOR THE FUEL
ECONOMY RIDE ON SEPT 27th.
For
this year; something completely different.
An economy test starting with completely dry tanks. After being given a measured amount of fuel,
the bike furtherest up the road is the winner.
Here’s
how it goes, step by step.
1)
Front
up at Lilydale with an empty fuel tin, funnel, plastic hose or whatever to get
juice out of your bike.
2)
Chuck
the said tins in the back of my ute, and then treat the first half of the day
like a normal run.
3)
We
leave at 10.15am (exactly) and ride to Mansfield for the lunch stop.
4)
This
is approximately 165 kilometres. Try to
arrive at Mansfield with about 5 litres or so of petrol left in the tank.
5)
Hopefully
my ute will arrive, whereupon you grab your fuel tin and start draining whil
lunch is on.
6)
This
includes running the motor till all carbies are dry.
7)
3
litres of your fuel will then be officially measured and poured back into your
tank.
8)
The
remainder in the tin goes back into the Ute, and you’re on your way.
9)
From
Mansfield, take the road to Jamieson.
Just before Jamieson turn right over the bridge at the top of Lake
Eildon. Follow this twisty road in the
direction of the Eildon/Thornton road.
10)
This
is where the motors start to die in a big way; whereupon I appear like an angel
of mercy out of the blue, take down your distance travelled, whack the extra
juice back in your bike and you’re on your way to refuel at the first petrol
station down on the Eildon/Thornton road.
And GOOD LUCK!
Oh! And by the way. The polished timber shield which Darren
kindly donated to the club will be set up as a perpetual trophy for the annual
fuel economy ride. The winner’s name,
bike etc will be engraved o small plaques and attached each year as a permanent
record.
There will be no
capacity divisions. If you ride it on
ordinary club runs, then that’s the machine you bring on the day.
Les XR 200
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QUESTIONAIRE
We
would like to thank everyone who filled in and returned the
questionnaire handed to them at the July meeting. Watch for the next itinerary, as the
questionnaires have been utilized.
Committee
M.T.C.V.
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SOME ADVICE
Well folks another
winter is just about finished and spring is virtually upon us. It’s that time of the year when riding is at
its most dangerous. Quite often you can
be travelling along in brilliant sunshine and unknown to you a shower has
already passed the area you are heading into.
One minute you are lopping along beautifully and then halfway around a
corner the wet road starts. Going from
dry to wet and then back to dry is one of the hardest changes you can encounter
and one that requires a fair amount of skill so take care.
Along with the warmer
weather come the different types of clothing that we throw over our bodies
beautiful. One should be fairly careful
of what you throw over the body and great care should be taken to ensure that
fashion does not take precedence over function.
As quite a few riders these days are wearing open face helmets they
generally wear sunglasses and use them as both glare protector and insect and
stone protector. If you are going to use
glasses of any kind you should ensure that the glass is toughened to industrial
standard. A far safer alternative is to
use a visor that clips on the helmet. If
you don’t like a full visor get one that comes down to at least nose level.
Whilst in the area of
the face a very handy little item that fits in the pocket and costs only about
$1.00 is a chapstick for care of your lips and stops the cold sores and
cracking of your lips which is not healthy at all as we in Australia have the
highest incidence of lip cancer in the world and riding bikes with the wind
drying our faces we must rate as good cancer risks if we continually get
cracked and sore lips.
As the weather gets even
warmer most of us change over to smaller lighter gloves a la moto-x. These gloves are excellent except for one
almost universal fault they are too short!
Who hasn’t had a strip of sunburn on our upper wrists between gloves and
jacket? Failing that carry some suntan
oil or if you forget it buy some suntan cream.
You only get one skin so save it!
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LAKE MOUNTAIN 2/8/81
On
rolling into Lilydale we were greeted with a surprise as there were quite a few
bikes had decided to join us for the day.
Anyway we left Lilydale about 10.30, after the riders from town had come
in about 25 bikes left Lilydale, Keith Finlay was in the lead, with Phil Duffy
and Co in the rear.
A
petrol stop was made at Narbethong Craig had to do a quick clutch repair. Then the ride through to Marysville was
rather slow due to the four wheeled machines.
On
arriving at Lake Mountain snowballs began to fly. Some people decided to play it safe (so they
thought) and left their helmets on, which became full of snow anyway. People seemed to take sides, club members on
one side and the others on the other side.
The snow flew for a while then everybody seemed to disperse.
It
had been decided to lunch at Marysville so we headed there I only heard of one
rider and his pillion coming off!! That
was of all places outside the Marysville loo.
I wonder if he’ll ever live it down.
Chris
and Deb took over the lead as we headed to Warburton along a dirt road; Les
flew past us as if the dirt road was nothing.
While waiting for Phil Duffy and the others to roll in, a lone rider
came in much to his surprise; he had managed to leave Mick and Tom behind. Nice one DAWSO!!
Well
anyway, back to Lilydale for a coffee where everybody went in their own
direction. I think a good day was had by
everyone.
Chris
Pillion Passenger.
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Have
heard that a certain member has just obtained a new dishwasher – Sweedish
too???
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O’BRIEN’S CROSSING AUG
23
There
are quite a few bike mags – TWO WHEELS – CYCLE WORLD – MOTORCYCLE MECHANICS =
BIKE and “OURS” the prices are getting like we were all on $500 a week, and
bloody hell I get just as much enjoyment reading the mag we all get together as
any. When I say we all, I suppose most
of the thanks must go to the EDITORS Geoff and Faye. Bike riding is what the club is all about I
suppose, and the amount of club rides I go on is bugger all (owing mainly to
work commitments) so I look forward to reading about the ones I missed out on.
Has
anybody noticed how thin the mag sometimes gets when club rides are not
included, must be hard for Geoff and Faye to find something to fill those
gamps, so come on gang lets keep those cards and letters rolling in. Now down off the soap box and on with the
show.
-STAGE
LEFT – LIGHTS – ACTION – CAMERAS!
Leaving
town in the company of approx 23 people heading towards home (B/Marsh) strange
how different it feels when riding with others to riding alone, destination
O’Brien’s Crossing with a little dirt.
To
anybody riding up around the Lions Park along the old H/way be careful of all
those meadow cakes (cow shit) on the road, can be a bit “DUNG-ER-OUS”!
Following
the road up through Myrniong to the back of Pikes Weir we headed towards
Greendale, and then to the Black Wood road, which goes past the Greendale
pub. Anybody that likes a glass of the
brown stuff must call in there sometime. ) but not when on a club ride! Ed) Big
open fire, ice cold beer, nice warm music, and plenty of hot air. Great place.
Arriving
at O’Brien’s Crossing with m gut rumbling (off song) and that horrible smell of
sizzling snags and sumptuous steaks actually make me feel like heaving, must
have had something the night before.
I
will never know how you can feel so good with a few beers that night and feel
so sick the next day. O’Brien’s Crossing
is a great place for a barby though, nobody even looked like ‘getting off’ or
even sliding, yours truly stayed upright as well. Amazing!
We
left the picnic area refreshed and bloated and headed towards Gisborne. The bush looks lush now with all the rain we
had in the last few weeks, even saw a big wallaby hopping through the scrub,
must be one that the shooters missed.
Had
a chat at Gisborne and then headed for B/Marsh along “that” road, rounding the
last bend I noticed a few of the bikes on the side of the road, apparently
Peter (no not big-D) on a Goldwing had miss-judged the apex SLIGHTLY or sneezed
or something. Maybe he just wanted to
see if his bike would make a good bull-dozer.
It does I kid you not! No broken
bones or blood though, which was good news.
Peter and pillion were quite O.K.
Having
pushed – pulled – heaved the bike on the road again we all in our extreme wisdom decided it was not quite
roadworthy, so it was left at my place overnight and taken down town on the
back of Bob-Jane-U-Beaut – Ute the following night.
Thanks
to Faye and daughter we all had a cuppa and bickies. My wife was out on the tear, likes to go for
drives in our (Maltese Mercedes) with the (V.C.O.A) Valiant Club of
Australia. Just to spite me “sorry
dear”.
Come
five bells the troops all headed off down town, leaving – me, my dog, and a
broken – wing.
See
Ya!
Tony
H-650
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MTCV INTERCLUB
MOTORCYCLE GYMKHANA CHAMPIONSHIP
25th
October 1981
MEETING
PLACE: Kings Bridge Car Park.
MEETING
TIME: 10am (leave 10.30am SHARP)
VENUE: Within 40km of G.P.O
EVENTS: Three Novelties & One Trials.
This
gymkhana is a Club effort in which the Perpetual Trophy goes to the Club
not the individual with the highest points.
There will be individual trophies for each event, with points from these
events accruing towards each Club’s total.
B.B.Q.
facilities will be available with the M.T.C.V. providing sausages.
NO
ALCOHOL
will be permitted.
NO
TRAIL BIKES
will be permitted in events.
CLUB
CAPTAIN
M.T.C.V.
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