Reports
of
Section Runs and
Meetingsfor April 2009
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Wednesday
29th April - the first Wednesday evening ride out
I
counted 24 bikes that turned up at the Three Golden Cups in
Southerndown
despite the weather looking destinctly lousy. The day had been
marvellous but rain was promised for the evening and the forecasters
were right. I decided to give the Morini a run and we had a dry ride to
Southerndown. When I turned into the pub car park at about
7.45
some ten bikes were already there with everyone standing
outside
for some reason or other, as more and more machines arrived. Pretty
soon some were leaving for home as the rain started to come down quite
heavily. However, some of us decided to retire to the bar and had a
good evening. It was 10pm before we left and by that time the rain had
eased making the ride home just a little damp. All in all, a good
evening, I think. Here's looking forward to the next evening ride in
May - venue is the Rose and Crown at Eglwysilan on the 27th.
Sunday 19th April - The 3rd Vale
of Glamorgan Cyclemotor and low powered machines run
For
the third year the section held an event for the tiddlers. 14
riders, including 3 non-members turned up at Cowbridge common
for the 10.30 start. The weather was glorious for the whole of
the
day and it's pleasing to say that of all the 14 who started, no one had
any serious trouble and all 14 finished. Ray B led the 'pack' off on a
circular route of about 45 miles. A stop was made for refreshments at
the Llandow Karting Centre, where a race meeting was well underway,
before heading south towards the coast and then circling back to the
start venue. Hondas seemed to be the most prevalent machine in use,
together with a brace of Puch Maxis an NSU Quickly and a shaftdrive
Yamaha townmate. There was also a nicely restored D1 Bantam and a very
nice and original 1955 New Hudson Autocycle. All together an excellent
day.
Sunday 12th April - The Phillipa Wheeler run from Abergavenny
- reported by Terry
Hopes
The Phillipa Wheeler run was held on Sunday 12th April. A
pleasant twenty five mile run for the little ones, around the Black
Mountain foothills starting from Abergavenny. A
couple of interesting little hills which hardly endeared
themselves to a couple of members running single
speed mopeds. A pleasant run in glorious countryside and fine
weather.
Section
members entered include George Egan, Barry Cooksley,Glyn Jones, Stuart
Botterfield, soon to become a member Ken Griffiths, and myself.
A
couple of minor adjustment to the the ignition system of my Ariel Pixie
were the only incidents of note.
Sunday 1st March - NACC St Davids
Day run 
There
was a very good turnout of machines for this, the first run of 2009,
for the NACC. I counted over 20 machines of all shapes and sizes.
Gordon Suddery was out on his sons Honda PC50, whilst we also had the
pleasure of the company of two members from the
Bristol area. One other
person that we don't normally see out on a bike was Emile Materne from
Brussels. Ok, it is a long way to come for a ride, but as Emile was
over for the weekend and he was a small capacity machine enthusiast it
seemed only appropriate that he should have a ride on something, so he
was loaned the Italian Testi Champion that is owned by Bill Phelps.
Will Moore was the only one out on a 'real' autocycle - a 1939
Excelsior Autobike, fitted with a two-speed Goblin engine.
Unfortunately the Excelsior was the only machine not to make it around
the course.
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