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The BMW Club Journal August 2013 £2.50 2 TheBMWClubJournal•August2013 The Journal CONTENTS August 2013 Regular/Occasional items The Official BMW Club within the UK and Republic of Ireland From The Editor’s Desk .................4 www.thebmwclub.org.uk Club Officers..........................6 General Enquiries: 0800 0854045 FREEPOST: THE BMW CLUB President’s Platform ....................7 The BMW Club is the Trading name of The B.M.W. Motorcycle Club Ltd; Registered in England; Registration Number 4261129 whose Registered Office: c/o Veitch Penny LLP 1, Manor Court Torque Reaction .......................9 Dix’s Field Exeter Devon England EX1 1UP ALL RIGHTS RESERVED German Jottings ......................45 Mutual Aid (Club member ads)...........75 For problems regarding distribution of The Journal, please contact your Section Secretary. Should there still be a problem then contact the National Membership Secretary whose contact Small Business Advertisments ...........79 details are listed on page 6. The Editor reserves the right to alter/amend any item or image The BMW Club - Out and About .49 submitted to The Journal. Such amendments will usually only be to make an item more readable or easier to understand. Submission of items/images will be taken as acceptance of this condition. Articles/Features We (The BMW Club) are the owner or licensee of all Intellectual Property rights in this publication. You may not copy or distribute Fun at Framlingham. 18 its contents without the express written permission of ourselves or the original author. Some Days ...........................19 From the Membership Secretary .........23 EDITORIAL TEAM The Northern Section/SSB Open Day .....25 Correspondence on any Journal matter not covered by the officers listed below should be sent to the Editor who will forward it as appropriate. A Charity Ride-Out With A Difference......26 For general Club administration and membership matters please see the list of Club officers on Page 6. I blame my Daugher ...................27 Editor: Stewart Lowthian, 29 Wagg Street, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 4BA. The Western Section 50th ..............33 01260 279 126 [email protected] Features/Articles: Peter Wright. How the BMF is run ...................38 [email protected] DISCLAIMER Torque Reaction: Paul Nadin, 49 Berkshire Drive, The BMW Club Journal accepts for publication articles and letters written in good faith; however, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 1SB. 01260 279 443 the views expressed in articles and letters which are published are not necessarily those of the [email protected] Editor of The Journal or those of The BMW Club or its officers or members. The information, including advice and suggested modifications published in the The BMW Mutual Aid: Maurice Weldon, 21 Lawnwood Drive, Club Journal has not been approved, tested or otherwise checked by The BMW Club Journal Goldthorpe, Rotherham, South Yorkshire S63 9GD or The BMW Club. Before acting on information, advice or suggested modifications published 07752 904 334 [email protected] in The BMW Club Journal you should always obtain technical advice, and if appropriate have a professional motorcycle engineer carry out the work for you. Commercial Display Advertisements: Jim Bruce, The BMW Club Journal and The BMW Club cannot accept liability for any loss, damage or The Firs, Bayview Crescent, Broadford, Isle of claims occurring as a result of any modifications or work or other action carried out on the Skye IV49 9DB 01471 820 408 advice or based on the suggestions given in any article or letter published in The BMW Club [email protected] Journal and (save for death or personal injury arising from The BMW Club Journal’s negligence) all such liability is hereby excluded. Small Business Advertisements: Charles Knight, The BMW Club Journal is published for and on behalf of The B.M.W. Motorcycle Club Ltd. 4 Homelands, New Road, Porchfield, Isle of Wight, The BMW Motorcycle Club Ltd, The BMW Club Journal, it’s Editor and Officers accept PO30 4LS ,01983 520 847 no liability in respect of loss or damage occasioned directly or indirectly as a result of the 07521 695 992 [email protected] publication of any advertisement in The BMW Club Journal or Website. Section News: Steve Foreman 01536 722 048 [email protected] This month’s cover photo shows Geoff Diary of Events: Bob Barker. Cadman’s R1200R posing nervously [email protected] in front of a Hawker Hunter FGA9 of Around The Compass: Bob Barker (see above). 1950s vintage at the Norfolk and Suffolk Club/Section Display Ads: Piers Kurrein. [email protected] Aviation Museum at Flixton, Suffolk TheBMWClubJournal•August2013 3 From The Editor’s Desk Things to think about Back at the desk May I pick up on something in Mike’s The JulyJournal went to the printers a day President’s Platform for last month. His or so early as the alternative was to send it 10 observation “Sometimeswedon’trealisehowwe days late after Gillian and I returned from relyonthehelpwegetfromvolunteersandtake France. The consequence of this was that your them for granted, it would copies arrived before we were costusafortunewithoutthis home, which meant that goodwillandenthusiasmfor several of you had contacted theClub,goingonfromthis, my answering machine rather wedon’thavecontingency than me. If you do telephone plans if any of the folks me, it would help no end if running key jobs for the you left your name, telephone club can’t for some reason or number (preferably a another do that job.” needs landline number as all my to be thought over at length. calls to such numbers are Some of the things that included in the modest volunteers do need specialised skills or tools price I pay for an out-of-date tariff that my and many of them take up a great deal of time telephone company seems to have forgotten that could otherwise be spent riding their about) and a short message. Your membership motorcycles (we are, after all, a motorcycle number is no help to me as the only way I club). Is now the time to start discussing how can get back to you is by ringing Dick Boyd, to ensure that someone’s retirement cruise or the National Membership Secretary, to see if dangerous recreational activity (I repeat, we he has a number that I can call you back on. are a motorcycle club) doesn’t bring things to Using 1471 only works if you’re the last caller a grinding halt? rather than number three in a list of six. My thoughts on this were concentrated I use an answering machine for two by a telephone call letting me know that Jim reasons. The first is that if I miss your call, I’d Bruce had been taken into hospital again. Jim rather return it than ignore you. The second is the friend and colleague who taught me a is that far too many of the calls I’ve answered great deal of what I know about putting The lately have been from liars purporting to be Journal together, and he finished off several from “Microsoft Windows” or “the computer editions for me when Gillian and I were on maintenance department” claiming to have extended holidays. With Jim being unwell and seen errors on my computer, problems with Gillian looking at brochures for Singapore my email or similar specious reasons for trying rather than another week in France, there is to hector me into downloading software that a clear need for someone with experience of will then claim to detect problems that only Adobe InDesign to cover for me. paying money can cure. They won’t talk to 4 TheBMWClubJournal•August2013 a machine so letting it answer saves me the we, along with all other customers, had moved effort of explaining their parents urgent need to a new supplier. Unfortunately we hadn’t so for holy matrimony and their own need for out went the lights for a while. By the time some sort of life and integrity. you read this, everything we have should be moved to a new home with a hosting company Motorcycle Live at the NEC who can offer us a long-term service. Moving the accumulated postings of many years was The Club has a stand at the show, which is a massive undertaking, which is why the from the 23rd November to the !st December. Forum was unavailable for a long time. The As last year, it’s being organised by Brian and Club’s original email system, with addresses Anita Johnson, who need volunteers to join ending in .org.uk, was also briefly affected. I in to present all that the Club has to offer don’t know how long it was unavailable for prospective members. If you’re free for any of but I knew there was something amiss when the dates that the show in on, then contact Mutual Aid didn’t turn up. A telephone call Brian, whose address details are on page 6 to Maurice Weldon brought a copy to me under Events Logistics. Parking and show immediately and it’s now safely on the pages admission passes will be provided by the Club. in the usual place but it does illustrate the dangers of taking technology completely for Two changes of meeting granted. place This month’s Section News The Northern Section’s summer meetings for August, September and October are at a It’s an absolute monster and another thing new venue. Where we Meet has been updated to think about is how big it should be. I’ve with the new address and, in case you miss it heard of a National Committee decision of there, there’s a half-page advert in two places some years ago to impose a word limit on with the details.

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