A new pic of our honorary junior member Pat, embarking on his new racing career!

 

West Middlesex July Report

There has been little to report over the last few months what with the indifferent weather & some of us without bikes to go out on. Not that there hasn’t been bikes parked outside The Star on a Wednesday night even a few runs & trips to the Ace.

There was a darts & pool match at the Star with West London Harley & sad to say we were annihilated, one even walked away with the raffle winnings just to add insult to injury, but a good night all the same.  

22/6 Amanda & Giles attended the Banbury Run. Some fantastic bikes on display as usual but the very windy weather had a few of the parked bikes over. Amanda was happy she has a third wheel.

more pics of Banbury Run on 'Events' page

5/7 Bill & Debs met up with Bob, Graham with Carol & Amanda with Andre for the Chinnor Bike Show & found it a bit low key compared to previous years. Chairman Mick had a lucky find on e-bay so gave Chinnor a miss & headed for Liverpool where he had won a rear end for an R3 including the tyre. Bill quipped that the rest of the bike is probably propped up on bricks & on police files, but I’m sure such things don’t happen like that in Liverpool. Amanda also made it to the Busy Bee later that day.

Crowd at Busy Bee Bike Show.

Recently Bill & Debs whilst on holiday in Scotland met by chance two Manchester TOMCC members Paul & Sylvia, heading for Ullapool & Scotland North’s Summer Rally.  Bill says they had a good night together in a local & naturally, during the wining & dining they put the world to rights. Sadly as usual there wasn’t an MP within earshot.

12/7 I rode with Ken & his son Patrick to Slough to visit MAGS Bike Show. Weather was fine & some interesting bikes on display including an R3 with thousands spent on it’s customising. It looked as if it was going to be a good show with band & bar but we couldn’t stay long.

On the ride home we glimpsed Mick riding a brand new Sprint. Now what was he doing on that? My Thunderbird Sport has new sprockets & chain, & has passed it’s MOT & is ready for the trip to the Denmark Rally in August. Speaking of which, Garry Perkins TOMCC ILO phoned recently regarding the Rally & our trip into Germany. Thanks for the interest and looking forward to meeting you in person.

Our weekend in the Forest of Dean 26-28/9 is now arranged & I have found a very good camp site. Lets hope the Autumn weather will be kind to us

 White Socks.