The Classic Owners Motorcycle Club Inc.
South Australia
Day trip to a museum and then visit an Indian Motorcycle collection in Pt Pirie. A bus has been booked or ride your bike. Meet at the West Croydon & Kilkenny RSL car park 8:30am for an 8:45am start. Further details, ring Bob Finnie 0411 687 666.
Ray joined our Club in 1977 (member no.180). Ray was always active in the Club in one form or another. He served on the Committee as Vice President, 1993-1995, and 2007-2010. Machine Registrar. 1993-2001 and 2003-2004. He also welcomed new members to our Club from 1997-2001. Ray was also active in assisting in other facets of the Club’s activities, for which combined with his committee activities, he was awarded Life Membership. Ray was always an ideas man, and was largely responsible for the introduction of the Tuesday mid-week club ride. Ray was interested in all things motorcycling, but in particular he considered himself to be a motorcycle/sidecar aficionado. He will be remembered for giving sidecar rides to the children present at various Club functions, including a display at the Strathmont Centre. Ray also dabbled in sidecar competition events, competing at Mac Park on his BMW R series outfit. He featured on the Classic Courier cover of the 1997 Jan-Feb edition with fellow club member Julia Lake as passenger in the sidecar.
In his later Club life Ray would attend Club rides on his BMW K1100 outfit.
Ken Hartland.
Congratulations to Tony Mitchell on his recent appointment as Club Captain. Come and join Tony and others on his first run this Sunday, meeting at Hawthorn Crescent, Hazelwood Park 9:30am for a 10am start.
This report from Motorcycle Ride Week was published in Old Bike Issue No. 90 and was made by Robert Elliot of the Veteran & Vintage MCCSA. Click on the cover photo to read the article.
The Mopeds Plus Adelaide Beach Run, scheduled for Sunday 6th December, has been CANCELLED. There have been issues with booking lunch at the Birkenhead Tavern and both the Mopeds Plus Co-ordinators, Alan Wallace & Warren Duncan are unavailable. The next Mopeds Plus Run will be in February 2021 details TBA.
The next monthly club run scheduled for Sunday 29th November is STILL ON! It’s been billed as the Christmas Mystery Run and willing participants are asked to meet at Hawthorn Crescent, Hazelwood Park at 9:30am for a 10am start. The ride leader will elected at the start of the run, so would be riders are asked to have some idea where they’d like to go. This will be the last chance to go on a club run before the Christmas break.
Sadly, the Club’s Christmas BBQ, scheduled for December 13th, has had to be cancelled, due to the ever changing COVID-19 restrictions. The Club’s General Meeting on Tuesday 24th November has also been cancelled. Watch this space for further information regarding club activities.
The Veteran &Vintage MCC have invited our club to stage a display of our bikes at their motorcycle only Swap Meet on Sunday 4th October. This event is the first in the program for the Motorcycle Ride Week.
All entrants will have to pay the standard $5 entrance fee, unless they’ve already registered for MRW, in which case your entry is good for this event. Entrants will need to be at Balhannah Oval no later than 9am.
Our regalia stall will also be there, look for the club’s yellow gazebo.
Let’s make a concerted effort and help promote our club. Email secretary@classicowners.org with the year, make & model of the bike(s) which you wish to display.
Our Club Registrars, Bob Finnie, Paul David & Barry Young, have asked that ALL members no longer make house calls to them in order to historically register their bikes. This has been tolerated in the past, but members sometimes turn up at the most inconvenient times causing much consternation with the Registrars and their families.
Therefore, registrations will only be processed at either Committee Meetings (3rd Tuesday of the month) or on the following week at General Meetings in the West Croydon & Kilkenny RSL clubrooms. Please respect their wishes and abide by these new rules. Thank you.
Now that the COVID-19 restrictions have eased, the club is planning to hold a Log Book Day on Saturday 27th June from 9 am – 1 pm at the West Croydon & Kilkenny RSL Club.
Obviously, we are still restricted as to the numbers gathered in the club. Therefore, we will ensure that everybody is socially distanced correctly and hand sanatiser will be available. As well as updating log books, we will be issuing members with new membership cards and receipts.
It would be appreciated if members don’t all turn up en masse at 9am and hope that attendance is evenly spread throughout the day. If lots of people do turn up together, a committee member will be on the door to ensure that the restrictions are adhered to.
Barry Young, our Social Secretary, will be running a sausage sizzle, as per normal.