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The Journal The BMW Club magazine November 2015 £3.00 2 The BMW Club Journal November 2015 The Editorial Team Editor: Stewart Lowthian, 29 Wagg Street, Contents The Journal Congleton, CW12 4BA. 01260 279 126 [email protected] From The Editor’s Desk 4 Features/Articles: Peter Wright. features@ President’s Platform 5 November 2015 bmwclubuk.net Torque Reaction 6 Torque Reaction: Paul Nadin, 49 Berkshire The Official BMW Club within the UK and Drive, Congleton, CW12 1SB. 01260 279 443 A Hebridean Odyssey 9 Republic of Ireland [email protected] www.thebmwclub.org.uk Obituary 13 Mutual Aid: Maurice Weldon, 21 Lawnwood General Enquiries: 0800 0854045 Drive, Goldthorpe, Rotherham, S63 9GD Down the Dolce Vita 15 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 07752 904 334 [email protected] Past but Present 22 Commercial Display Advertisements: Please contact the Editor until further notice. 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November 2015 The BMW Club Journal 3 From The Editor’s Desk Situations Vacant the telephone nowadays, and far quicker than the traditional posted letter, there You already know that I’m stepping down are so many ways of doing it that it’s very as Editor at the AGM in April next year. difficult to produce a detailed beginner’s There has not, so far, been a frantic rush guide to the systems that the Club uses. of members wanting to succeed me. Also The alternative to mastering the Club’s stepping down, by the next AGM at the facilities, which use Google’s remarkably latest, is Chaz Knight, who for the last reliable mail service, is for everyone to use A competition: and a prize 9 years has looked after Small Business their own email address. There are two Advertisements for us. Both positions immediate problems with this. The first I’ve been sent a copy of Ian Falloon’s new need filling. Neither of the is a role that is that telling the world that you’re joe. book, entitled The Complete Book of BMW you’d expect to step into and be fully fluent [email protected] tells every purveyor Motorcycles and subtitled Every Model overnight. That’s why both of us are giving of questionable personal services how to since 1923. It’s a mighty work, which will sufficient notice that our successors can pester you. I receive many such unwelcome take me a long time to read before I can work with us to learn what’s involved to offers, including some apparently from make any realistic attempt to review it. I’ve allow a seamless transition. We do not want me, it being a relatively straightforward also been offered a copy to give away so, a repeat of the circumstances under which matter for the unscrupulous to fake an although competitions in The Journal aren’t I became Editor. My predecessor chose to email address. The second is that it’s a something I’d run often, this is too good a withdraw his nomination just before the legal requirement to put the details of the chance to miss. I’d like to see more in The members vote that would have confirmed limited company that we are at the end Journal about fixing and improving our him in office. This left the Club with no of every item of correspondence. It’s easy motorcycles so the book will be awarded Editor and no means, short of an extremely enough to do but far easier if you have to whoever sends in the best technical expensive Extraordinary General Meeting, separate addresses for Club and personal. tip received by the 10th November. It of electing one. I was appointed (in other Also, using the Club facilities as they were can relate to any BMW motorcycle, words I attended National Committee designed to be used means that when a independent of it’s age or number of Meetings but had no vote), with no previous position changes hands the new incumbent cylinders, or an accessory (commercial or experience, so the first thing I needed has immediate access to any outstanding homemade) for one.