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Terry aka Yellow Terry Short Pants, can’t wait for Summer. Sporting his birthday present from the Boys at Kent Wings. GWOCGB Wingspan March 2017 Page 1 GWOCGB Wingspan March 2017 Page 2 WELCOME TO THE CLUB If you are interested in visiting your nearest Region’s monthly meeting,phone up the Rep (see list of Regional Reps) or just turn up and make yourself known. March Gary and Ruth Bryan Shropshire Damian Lockley Wiltshire Victor and Janet Bevington Staffs Ian and Mel Crockett Sussex Andrew Bennett Wiltshire Ian and Judith Pritchard Preston Peter Phillips Banbury Alex and Stacey Groves Kettering Social Members John Griffiths Pontypool Mark Kepler Bramford Suffolk David Trotter and Gillian Munroe-Trotter Durham Robert and Lesley France West Midlands Darren and Juliet May Cornwall Harry and Gaynor Beese Newport SW Kevin and Lindsay Close Whitby Ray and Jeannie Walton Rochdale Robert Hendry and Dawn Pattinson Bexhill on Sea Brett and Julie Colquhoun Egremont Cumbria Andre Ravary Littlehampton Sussex Peter and Linda Ford Basingstoke Ken Major Edgware Patrick Donnelly and Marie Middlemass Cumbria William and Gabrielle Hurley Herne Bay March Evan Thomas (South Wales) will be 13 on the 9th Suzanne Hackett (West Wales) will be 6 on the 24th Happy Birthday GWOCGB Wingspan March 2017 Page 3 Obituary: Tim (Tiny) Dix Sadly, William (Tim) Dix, passed away on the 14th Feb at 9.05pm. Tim was an active member of the club in years gone by and has a lot of friends in the club. I have taken the liberty of copying an image posted by Anne & Rab Strang from FB. Our condolences go out to Bev (his widow) and his family. Tims funeral is to be held on Friday 3rd March 3pm at Harrogate Crematorium. The family would love bikers to come along and join the convoy of bikes, meet at 2pm from home (11 Branton Court, Great Ouseburn YO269RJ ) and travel to the crematorium. Dress how you want but this is not a suit and boot job. Family flowers only, a collection will be held for the kidney unit at Yorkshire hospital. R.I.P. my friend. GWOCGB Wingspan March 2017 Page 4 Announcements GWOCGB AGM The next Annual General Meeting will take place on Sunday 23rd April 2017 THE HOLIDAY INN Address: 20 Wolverhampton Rd W, Walsall WS2 0BS Phone:01922 618800 10am Reps Meeting 11am Start of AGM (There will also be a NC meeting on Saturday 22nd Apr) GWOCGB Wingspan March 2017 Page 5 Announcements GWOCGB Wingspan March 2017 Page 6 CALENDAR of EVENTS 20162017 Date Event Type Location 24th- 26th Mar Hunstanton Light Parade Hunstanton 8th Apr Shrewsbury Light Parade Shrewsbury 9th Apr Appy’s Open Day Keighley 23rd Apr GWOCGB AGM Meeting Holiday Inn M6 j10 Walsal 4th - 7th May Portugal Treffen Porto Covo 5th- 7th May Wessex Wing Ding Charmouth Dorset 18th- 21st May Belgium Treffen Vosselaar 25th-28th May France Treffen Vendome 41100 19th-21st May Broadlands Wing Ding Bury St Edmonds 24th- 31st May(BH) Border Wing Ding Redcar Rugby Club 1st- 5th Jun Holland Treffen Schorfvenweg 3, 5976 PL Kronenberg Kranjska gora,Gozd Martuljek - Avtocamp 8th- 11th Jun Slovenia Treffen ŠPIK Harkány, Bajcsy-Zs. street 6. Termál 15th-18th Jun Hungary Treffen Camping 15th- 18th Jun Spain Treffen Empruriabrava 16th - 18th Jun Devon & Cornwall Wing Ding Newquay 22nd- 25th Jun Switzerland Treffen Engelberg 23rd - 25th Jun Sussex Wing Ding Eastbourne 29th Jun - 2nd Jul Italy Treffen Rieti (Rome) 30th Jun - 2nd Jul Essex Wing Ding Southend on Sea 6th- 9th Jul Czech Republic Treffen Zákupy 13th- 16th Jul Poland Treffen Wrocław Topacz Castle 14th- 16th Jul Center Wing Ding Alcester Warwickshire 20th- 23rdJul Latvia Treffen Riga (Krasta iela 89) 21st - 23rd July Tudor Rose Wing Ding Yardley Gobion 24th-26th July Russia Treffen TBA 27th- 30th Jul Finland Treffen Karjalohja, Päiväkumpu SPA 28th- 30th Jul Lincolnshire Wing Ding Market Rasen 3rd- 6th Aug Norway Treffen Leira (Fagernes) 4th - 6th Aug Yorkshire Wing Ding Farsley 10th- 13th Aug Sweden Treffen TBA 18th- 20th Aug Norfolk Wing Ding Banham Zoo 17th- 20th Aug Ireland Treffen Drumshanbo. County Leitrim 24th- 28th Aug (BH) Great Britain Treffen Driffield, Yorkshire 31st Aug - 3rd Sep Luxembourg Treffen Eischen 6th- 10th Sep Greece Treffen Alexandroupoli 14th- 17th Sep Bulgaria Treffen Aheloy on Black Sea 20th- 24th Sep Turkey Treffen Canakkale-Kum Hotel 30th Sep Skegness Light Parade RNLI Skegness 27th -30th Oct Belgium Friendship W/E Hotel Event Nieuwpoort Belgium GWOCGB Wingspan October 2016 Page 7 GWOCGB Wingspan March 2017 Page 8 GWOCGB National Committee NATIONAL COMMITTEE GWOCGB Registered Address: Chairman TIM BROOKS 21 St Andrews Crescent, Tel:01233 820682 Cardiff, email:[email protected] CF10 3DB General Secretary JANET CROSS Tel:0118 981 2311 CO-OPTED POSITIONS email:[email protected] MAG/BMF Rep Position Vacant Membership Secretary PAT HELM Tel:01924 824323 Minutes Sec MARION ROWDEN email:[email protected] email:[email protected] Treasurer BARRY HAWKINS HONORARY POSITIONS Tel:07736433384. Founder & Former President email:[email protected] HARRY WARD (1929–2001) International Rep BOB SIMPSON Honorary Life Member ALLAN FOSTER Tel:07899 864167 (co-opted) Tel: 014577 63038 email:[email protected] email:[email protected] STA Award cards can be sent to: R Simpson, 87 Crossways WINGSPAN Peter church, Hereford HR2 0TQ Wingspan Editor CHRIS EASTER email:[email protected] Treffen Coordinator NIGEL WHITEHOUSE Tel:07919 554749 email:[email protected] KEEP YOUR REGIONAL CONTACT DETAILS UP TO DATE Events Secretary MARK PHIlLIPS Tel:07787 108578 email:[email protected] or [email protected] Committee Member / Classic Section It’s very important for Regions to keep the PETE FISHER Committee (Gen Sec, Events & Membership Tel:0790 6478570 Secretary) as well as the Wing Span Editor up to email:[email protected] date with any contact changes. This is one of the duties of the Regional Rep. Please bear this in mind when Regions are organising their Annual Webmaster DEREK HENDRY General Meetings. Tel:0191 567 0303 email:[email protected] COPYRIGHT NOTICE:All material, information and images used in the WingSpan are the property of the originator and may not be reproduced or published in any way, shape or form without the written permission of the Wing Span Editor. DISCLAIMER:the opinions expressed in the articles in Wing Span are the opinions of the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the viewpoints of the Gold Wing Owners Club of Great Britain, its Committee or its member’s. No liability can or will extend to the Club in relation to the contents of such letters and it is only on this basis that we can publish such correspondence. In addition, the Gold Wing Owners Club of Great Britain has no knowledge of the condition or merchantability of any of the items offered for sale in this Wing Span. The Purchaser must rely on its own enquiries GWOCGB Wingspan March 2017 Page 9 Welcome to my report for March 2017. Following on from last month’s report, I took the Trike to Kent Motorcycles at Barham, near Canterbury, Kent on Thursday 12th January for the brake recall. I am glad that I trailered it there as the rain was very heavy. At least they managed to carry out the works. My trike is 2010, interesting to see that in America, the bulletin in May 2016 regarding the Airbag Recall, is 2006-2010 bikes, some 2,700 bikes affected, but only some specific models. (USA owners have several different build options and can have an 1800 without airbag). In January this year they state 2006-2009 plus 2012 bikes, adding a further 882 bikes to the list in what Honda call “the second phase” This is just America, Pete Rakestrow informed me of (if memory serves me right) a further 900 or so Wings in Japan. I haven’t seen figures for the UK, but I know some have had the airbag fuse removed by the main dealer. I suggest concerned owners call their nearest main dealer and give them your VIN number to check. Mine came back, clear. Honda America stated that there hadn’t been any fatalities globally. My thanks go to Cheryl and Alan Roulston for another great Trent post Christmas bash in Derbyshire. On the 26th February, we held the Rep/Members meeting at the Holiday Inn M6 J10 Walsall, (as it is now Sunday 5th Feb as I write this report ) I hope it was informative and thank all who attended. The clocks will be changing shortly and the weather should get better. Hello Spring. Tim GWOCGB Wingspan March 2017 Page 10 Greetings! The unexamined management accounts for the twelve months ended 31st December, 2016 were presented at the February, 2017 Member’s Open Meeting and hard copies were made available at the time. I therefore enclose for wider circulation in the Wingspan the usual two documents, namely money in and out and bank balances at the year-end. I have excluded all income and expense relating to the Treffen as we previously considered a separate financial report on the Treffen. Also, as previously, transactions on the Friendship and Charity accounts have been excluded. (See accounts at end of report) A few comments on the management accounts: Money in: membership subscriptions have now really taken off in the year’s last quarter because of the 2017 Membership subscription renewals for 2017 that have been received. This situation happens every year which is great news for the Club, but it does somewhat skew the year end numbers. The £21,599.29 can be compared with the 2015 Management Accounts number of £23,071.15 so we are down a little.