Reports of Section Runs and Meetings
for May 2009
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Wednesday 27th May -
Second Evening ride out
Lousy
weather again and that meant a shortage of machines. All we had were
four bikes and several cars making a total of 12 members who made the
effort to get to the Rose and Crown at Eglwysilan. Must say that it's
not an easy place to find, unless you're in the know. The pub sure made
us welcome and Bob J, Doug G and Jean and myself all sampled some of
the food on offer. The next Wednesday evening ride out is on the 24th
June, to the Griffin Inn(locally called The Bog) at Gilfach Goch. If
you don't know where it is, just ask.
Sunday
24th May - The Seaside Run
Having
had to move this event from it's traditional date of the 3rd weekend,
we were blessed with some of the best weather so far this year. On the
closing date for entries we had only 64 entrants which was rather
disappointing - but the fine weather brought out a few more and by the
time that the first machine was away we had received 84 entries. This
year the start
was from a new venue, The Oystercatcher on Penarth Marina. Our usual
start/finish venue of The Barons Court had, yet again, changed hands
and the managment declined to host our event, however, the
Oystercatcher came to the rescue. First machine was away at 10.30am and
headed along the Marina towards the Barrage before turning uphill into
Penarth and then following the usual route along the promenade and on
to a circular tour of Barry Island before eventually reaching the
coffee stop at Nash Point. From there the route took us on to
Porthcawl, with the exception of Doug Hughes, whose Velocette decided
to have an attack of electrical gremlins, whereupon Doug chose to use
his own recovery to take the errant Velo straight back home, rather
than be picked up by the
recovery van in the capable hands of John Ellis. Many of the
entrants took a sunday lunch at the Seabank Hotel in Porthcawl before
setting off for the afternoon run back to the Oystercatcher. There was
one route on the route card and some followed it whilst others made
their own way back. It was reported that there was another breakdown
out in the midst of Glamorgan - it was, of course, another Velocette,
this one piloted by our very own Rob Jones. He managed to make it back
to the finish after discovering that there was no points gap on the
engines spark plug, due no doubt to a 3/4 inch reach plug being fitted
where a 1/2 inch reach plug should have been. Carol Jayne
kindly
agreed to present the trophies before everyone departed, after having
had a good day. Many thanks to Geoff Harris for the organising, Carol
for handing out the trophies, John Ellis for being there to pick up
broken down
Velocettes and , of course, The Oystercatcher, for having us there:
Best
Vintage
motorcycle - Bob
Hill, 1929 Scott
Best Post Vintage Motorcycle - Terry Hopes, 1931 Ariel
Best Lady - Debbie Davies, 1982 Honda
Best Non-European motorcycle - Kevin Jones, 1972 Suzuki
Best Threewheeler - Jonathan Apsee, 1984 Pembleton
Best pre-war car - Richard Thomas, 1934 MG PA
Entrants choice of car - Richard Thomas, 1934 MG PA
Entrants choice of motorcycle - Bill Phelps, 1925 Indian
Thanks to Terry Hopes
for the following pictures of
the day.
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