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2 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 The Journal CONTENTS May 2014 Regular/Occasional items The Official BMW Club within the UK and Republic of Ireland From The Editor’s Desk ...... 4 www.thebmwclub.org.uk General Enquiries: 0800 0854045 Club Officers ...... 6 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
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The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 3 From The Editor’s Desk
Torque Reaction own way. It’s almost miraculous that they’ve become so common. After soldiering on for far too long with a temperamental old computer, Paul Nadin This year’s AGM now has a replacement that should last him for a good few years. The principal challenge In between me finishing this edition and in setting the new you reading it is the computer up for Paul AGM. I’ve no idea how was sorting out the the meeting will go. sending and receiving There are two potentially of emails, Windows XP contentious items for and Windows 7 having discussion and voting very different ideas as to on: both matters that how it ought to be done. have come up for the It’s all working now but second time since I was if you sent anything to appointed in 2010. Paul at the end of March All being well, either or the beginning of April at the meeting or shortly and haven’t had a reply it might well be down afterwards, we can appoint a new Membership to me commissioning his new computer in Secretary to learn the ropes from Dick Boyd, stages as time permitted. If this is the case whose retirement will hopefully include more then sending it to him again will produce time with his family, friends and motorcycles Paul’s usual helpful reply. rather than staring at his computer screen (a The computer, whether on the desk or tempting thought: does anyone want to be disguised as a telephone, is almost everywhere Editor?) nowadays. I could not imagine editing The Journal without email to send and receive Looking for ideas documents and the thought of cutting and pasting being done with real paper and glue Every so often I skim through copies of rather than metaphorically with a keyboard The Journal from when I first joined to see and screen doesn’t bear thinking about. It if I can pick up any good ideas that came, does, however, raise the question of how went and would benefit from returning. A dependent the Club is on the computer skills comment from Chris Fleming about making of everyone who contributes to it. The modern The Journal into something of more general computer is a powerful piece of kit but with a appeal sticks in my mind. It’s a suggestion that capacity for throwing its’ toys out of the pram one of the authors of the Time for Change like no other device if things aren’t done its document a couple of months ago has also 4 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 made to me. It’s something that I’m in two sorting valve clearances, with the cylinders minds about. The Journal will never be sold sticking out at the sides, should be a great deal in newsagents next to the products of the big simpler to get at than on my Triumphs, which publishing companies unless the club becomes had twin overhead camshafts tucked up under a big publishing company with a budget and the frame top tube. This is probably why management structure to match, which dealer servicing for the GS has always been isn’t really what an owners club should be. advantageously priced: there isn’t an hour or What I would like to do is make The Journal so of labour to remove acres of panelling to appealing to BMW-owning non-members on set the valve clearances and change the spark the basis that they might then join to receive plugs. it. I’d be very interested to know how many of I’m sorting out the servicing because I’m our current members are active in the sense of pedantic: in reality I’ve ridden a meagre regularly attending organised events, of which 3500 miles in the last year so most of it there seem to be a pleasingly large number. precautionary rather than urgent. I’d hoped by now to be able to comment on the wear rate That time again of the Tourance Nexts that Metzeler invited me to try out but so far all I seem to have done It’s time for the annual service for the GS. is run them in, however, even as I type this, the Apart from changing the brake fluid, which sun is in the sky so perhaps the National Trust will require a little research, everything else membership will find us enough attractions to looks straightforward to do. Changing oils give us a decent mileage. and filters was easy enough last year and
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 5 National Officers & Section Secretaries National and other officers Section Secretaries PRESIDENT: Mike Warrilow, East Anglia: Dik Langan 6 Hazel Rise, Claydon, 32 Fairthorne Way, Shrivenham, Oxon, SN6 8EA Ipswich, IP6 0DB 07906 584676 or 0845 003 688046 01793 782 428 [email protected] [email protected] or eastanglia. Secretary: Anita Johnson [email protected] c/o 10 Saffron Road, Tickhill, Doncaster DN11 9PW. Irish: Jim Sweeney, Fearna, Straleek, Celbridge, 01302 743 032 [email protected] Co Kildare. Tel: 087 2300736 [email protected] Treasurer: Jim Lepley London: John Lynch, 166 Chaulden Lane, 7 Landale Gardens, Burntisland, Fife KY3 9HN Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP1 2BT 01442 267694/ 01592 874 592 [email protected] 07860 663092 [email protected] Social Secretary: Jim Bettley Mercia: John Humpherson, 14 Highmoor Close, 1 Green Walk, Fareham, Hants. PO15 6AZ Willenhall, West Midlands. WV12 5UU 07920 147 908 [email protected] 01922 710 694 [email protected] Membership Secretary: Dick Boyd Stewart Midland: John Winn,16 Ardington Road, Place, South Road, Garmouth, Morayshire IV32 7LX Northampton, NN1 5LJ. 01343 870 389 [email protected] 01604 631 043 [email protected] Tool Hire Secretary: Mike Delacoe, North East: Simon Johnston, c/o 5 School Row, 4 Charwelton Road, Preston Capes, Daventry NN11 North Broomhill, Morpeth, NE65 9TY 3TA 01327 360 945 [email protected] 07702 709063 [email protected] Merchandise SecRETARY: Cath Broughton, Northern: Lynn Tagg, 63 Ambrose Court, 17 Strawberry Hill, Northampton NN3 5HL Moss Lane, Leyland, Preston. PR25 4XA. 01604 416 896 [email protected] 01772 431 324 [email protected] See Merchandise advertisment for contact times. Oxford: Rosemary Hicks, 15 Orchard Rise, Vintage & CLASSIC Register Secretary: John Chesterton, Bicester, Oxon, OX26 1US Winn,16 Ardington Road, Northampton, NN1 5LJ. 01869 240 529 [email protected] 01604 631 043 [email protected] Scottish: Marjorie Burnett, Crawick Lea, Glasgow Sporting Register Secretary: Robert Bensley, Road, Sanquahar, Dumfrieshire. DG4 6BZ Oak Tree Farm, Heath Road, Banham NR16 2HS 01659 50091 [email protected] 01953 888 415 [email protected] South east: John Hawker, 25 Pickering Street, Safety officer: Colin Bembridge. Maidstone, Kent. ME15 9RS, 01622 744665 02089 538 807 [email protected] [email protected] Events Logistics: Brian Johnson, c/o 10 Saffron Southern: Bob Denman, 1 Mount Pleasant Close, Road, Tickhill, Doncaster DN11 9PW. 01302 743 032 Lightwater, Surrey, GU18 5TP 01276 475853 or 07950 319 197 [email protected] [email protected] Marketing/Commercial Sales: Position Vacant South West: Debbie Sampson ‘Trevilla’, Sidecar Register Secretary: Position vacant. 18, Ropehaven Road St. Austell Cornwall PL25 4DU. GS Register Secretary: Position vacant. 01726 61642 [email protected] Assistant Secretary for America: Ulster: Charlie McConnell, 6 Cameron Park, Position vacant. Ballymena, Co Antrim BT42 1QJ. 02825 647 730 [email protected] 100,000 MILE AWARD: Jason Goodwill 01847 893 935 [email protected]. Western: Sue Ross 7 Pintail Grove Kidderminster Worcs. DY10 4RT. Nick Fearn WEBMASTER: 01562 820 458 [email protected] [email protected] Yorkshire: John Elvidge 2 Birstwith Grange, Mike Fishwick Sirgon, 24250 TECHNICAL OFFICER: Birstwith, Harrogate, N.Yorkshire, HG3 3AH 01423 Daglan, France. [email protected] 770866 [email protected] Forum Administrator: John King. HQ Register: Dick Boyd, Stewart Place, South [email protected] Road, Garmouth, Morayshire IV32 7LX Forum Address: http://forum.bmw-club.org.uk 01343 870 389 [email protected] Vice-Presidents: Delegates to other organisations Cliff Batley [email protected] BMF: Primary contact: Tony Cartmell 01787 373 919 Other delegates; Jeff Dymond, John Lewis, Mark Graham Walker 21 Whitehouse Ave, Burnhope, Dutton Durham DH7 0AJ 07931 710 991 [email protected] Alan Orme [email protected] FBHVC: John Winn 0115 946 9542 Vehicle dating & DVLA enquires: Steve Perry [email protected]
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6 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 President’s Platform
Well it’s been a varied period since my last I bet they wish they could supply on demand, Platform some good and some not so good. It’s apparently the popularity is world wide so no not possible to please every one and we have pinching one country’s bike’s to transport to offended one member a demand market, I enough for him to think it’s a great bike put pen to paper and and if I were selfish tell me that after 17 would have one just years a club member to show. No I am not he won’t be renewing brave enough to ask his membership, I the pillion, she ain’t hope he will change keen on the seat and his mind. So what reckons panniers has upset him so would spoil the much? It all started look. The only thing because the Forum missing from the Administrator (John range now is a cruiser, King ) had stopped I wonder if BMW will a so called joke being have another attempt posted on the forum at this market ? and the member I was struggling said it was censorship. JK. had asked for my for content this month loads of official boring opinion previously about what he proposed but necessary stuff, so for a break from this to do and after reading the content I fully article I rode down to Bahnstormer Motorrad supported John and still do. I am not going in Maidenhead for the Oxford Section get into detail but enough to say that the subject together with Lee Nicholls the UK marketing was about the missing Malaysian aircraft and manager of Motorrad. He was giving us an up though may have seemed a funny joke to some, to date talk on all things BMW Motorrad and was in bad taste and could offend especially if Club relationship. After the introduction and a connected relative or friend were involved. update of BMW MOTORRADS plans for Nuff said. the next year and beyond the floor was opened What a turnout at the dealers for the “new out to members questions and question the model launch” it was great to see so many members did, from dealer charges, old models people showing interest in the new bikes the and Motorrad intentions towards the club. range is so varied especially the RnineT which As you can expect from Lee he answered has taken Motorrad by surprise they have truthfully and to the point even questions sold this years consignment and if you want fired at him that were designed to catch one you will have to wait a matter of months him out were treated with a good amount before taking delivery. Two edged sword this, of humour and audience participation. It The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 7 was good to see our Social sec and Jean in attendance, he told me of what he has in store for us which sounds great. I will leave him to tell his plans for us to enjoy. Well done I think we came away wiser and with a little more understanding of Dealer/ Motorrad/ Club plans and intentions. Thanks to Bahnstormer Motorrad Maidenhead for their hospitality and refreshments. This meeting was an idea that may be expanded to other dealers who want to participate in bringing the club and Motorrad closer together. By the time you read this the AGM will be history and we will have a better idea of how rank and file members feel about how the future of the Club is being organised, I feel that we are in a position to go for the new idea’s if we can get you ( the members) behind us. Mike
8 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 Please send all submissions for Torque June’s Torque Reaction to Paul Nadin (details on page 3) before May Reaction 5th please. Hassle-free hire June 1958 contains a reference to E.A.Odell in the early paragraph beginning ‘Hurricanes …’ Just dropping you a line, to say how smoothly That leads me to think that he may have been and hassle free it works in regard to hiring a BMW owner and a member of your club at tools from the clubs facility. From first contact that time. with Mike regarding sourcing the tool I was I would be grateful if any of your club after, to explaining how the hiring process members could provide any references to or worked to getting the balance of my deposit memories of E.A.Odell. For example, what refunded to my bank account, he couldn’t was his first name? have been nicer or more helpful to deal with- He appears to have been a representative he’s a real asset to the club! for Rolls Royce, maybe in Derby. His letter to One thing I did notice (as I had posted a ‘Motorcycle Sport’ May 1976 “Motorcyclist at question on the forum relating to the problem War” is interesting to me, with a link to the for which I needed the tool) was the lack of Surtees family. knowledge of this facility from other members I would very much appreciate any who had read my posting. information please if any of your members I don’t know whether Mike would agree know of or anything about this gentleman. with me, but if there was somewhere on the Many thanks. club site that perhaps listed all the tools that David J Jones the club possess and their bike models that [email protected] they cover? I think this would be helpful, maybe perhaps for each one they could also R100 RS Fork Springs point to a link for a ‘You tube’ video of how to use it. This worked for me as I found a video I have just bought myself a 1989 R100RS on there of how to use the Alternator poly-belt which I am in the process of restoring. Many tensioning tool, which helped me no end. years ago I crashed the last one I owned on Phil Myers the Nurburgring by grinding through the Wigton, Cumbria. rocker box cover, putting oil on the back tyre and ending up in intensive care at Adenaire Information please Hospital. I survived but the experience made me I have been collecting letters etc by or about lose confidence in the ground clearance of an E.A.Odell with the aim of making a this model. In the intervening years I have collection available on an appropriate web owned many Japanese superbikes but without site, particularly with reference to Vincent ever losing my love of the old boxer, hence the motorcycles, and I attach below some of the rebuild. I am writing you in the hope that you material available so far, from which you can may know (or know of) a member who can see that he had an interesting history. answer the following please. I noticed that BMW Club Archive Journal- In re-building the front forks I removed the The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 9 springs but without noting which way up they the green lanes within the Derbyshire Peak were. Later I read in the workshop manual District, be it on my R800 GS, trailing with ‘Make sure that you re-install the fork springs friends, competing in MCC events or classic the same way up as you removed them’. There colonial trials. I’ve taken my BMW road bike is no notable difference in the springs except down a dry green lane to see where it leads and that one has a plastic cover on each end while have even driven a car down one or two to take the other does not. There is nothing in the the family for a picnic. workshop manual to help. Therefore it is sad to see that two famous Any help / advice you could offer would be lanes (Chapel Gate and the Roych) are under gratefully received as I would love to get the threat again from the Peak District National bike back on the road for my annual visit to Park’s Audit Resources and Performance family in Ireland later this year. My mobile committee. This committee, chaired by number is 07980 672252 and I’m happy to Christopher Pennell, seems to have a co- call anyone if they feel able to text me their ordinated campaign to close all vehicular number. rights on green lanes to motorcyclists. This Hugh Halpin. is the second time the committee have put forward a closure for these two roads, despite Peak District problems losing a court battle the first time. And they have put many more closures forward in the I feel quite strongly that as motorcyclists are past and will in the future. being systematically persecuted in the Peak As the Committee are using public money District, and the majority of motorcyclists do to fund their aim, they therefore will not stop not know about it. until all green lanes are closed. There are now It should be of interest to all of us, and I feel only 30 miles left of legal green lanes in the we should help to fight closures of Green lanes Peak District. When these are gone a long to motorcyclists within the Peak District heritage of Trail tiding, Trials and Colonial National Park. I have for many years ridden trials and just setting a set of motorcycle
10 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 wheels on a green lane will be lost forever in offer and, to make things even better, a very the Peak District. Clearly other national parks great price on a year-old ST1300 with only will follow. 450 miles on the clock. The Trail Riders Fellowship needs our help The up-side for readers ofThe Journal to protect our rights to the use of these lanes. is that they won’t be bothered with my Please go to their website www.trf.org.uk/ whinging comments making them choke on and sign the petition against further closures their cornflakes. Another, possibly, is that I within the Peak District. shall be advertising, in Mutual Aid some of Paul Stewardson the ‘goodies’ that I didn’t include in the part- Ilkeston, Derbyshire. exchange deal. Best wishes to all. A sad farewell Neville Dalton Oxford Section. As readers may know I was ‘very disappointed’ with the attitude of BMW Insured Warranty And more praise of the in relation to the control-cluster failure on Tool Hire scheme. my R1200RT and that took the shine off the marque for me. I have recently completed a rebuild of a 1983 So, with the poor trade-in value of the R65 which turned out to be far more involved machine I’ve had for four years (and the third than I was expecting. of its type I’ve owned) and realising that the Rather than a mere ‘fettling’ the engine new version/replacement of the type has required a complete strip down and many incompatibility problems with some of the replacement parts. The job would have been accessories in which I have invested, I have next to impossible without access to a wide decided to return my affections to an earlier range of special tools necessary to complete a love-a Honda Pan European. This decision proper job of repair, so I was most grateful that was greatly assisted by a good part-exchange the Club’s Tool Hire service existed.
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12 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 The rebuild turned out to be more of a time refused to turn over the engine for resurrection than restoration as with every restart. Whilst waiting for a rescue truck new task another horror was revealed. I have some time later, it had obviously cooled and completed other restorations successfully could be restarted. Again no faults were found on older British bikes and I considered this other than a suggestion of a new battery. The was an opportunity to find out about BMW propensity to stall is still there, shows up for airheads. Let’s just say I learned a great deal. about one day per month and then disappears, Twice over recent months I have had and restarting seems to be a matter of luck but need to contact Mike Delacoe with a list of will always restart if allowed to cool somewhat. tools needed to tackle the next task. I have I can avoid the stall mostly by taking up the been delighted that not only have all of the slack at the twist grip as I shut off for a dead tools been available, but also Mike has been stop at a junction. extremely prompt in responding, very free Wollaston technicians have seen it stall with helpful advice and, as a consequence, the in their workshop but the mystery is as yet project has been a lot less hassle than it could unresolved. have been. There are masses of similar articles in the Motorworks is a little richer and I am a American BMW club Forums so I have learnt lot wiser, but I now have a bike that is up and to live with its little foibles because the bike running with a fresh M.O.T. and tax. There itself is awesome. are still a few tweaks to get things up to my John Jones. standard but we’re almost there. Midland Section. In conclusion, I am one very happy customer. My experience of the Club’s Tool Hot starts and Humble Hire Service was very positive and is to be Pie! highly recommended. Malcolm Miller. In last month’s Journal I outlined the problem Northern Section. that had been experienced with my K1300 GT hot starts and the non-acceptance of the More on Hot Start issues problem by BMW UK. Well, the time has come for me to eat a Further to the letter from Malcolm Barlow sizeable chunk of humble pie. With armour (April Journal) I too purchased a K1300GT, donned and shield at the ready I was in full possibly manufactured on a Friday, much as battle order ready to engage the mighty Malcolm’s. ‘adversary’ when the desktop pinged and there, Mine performed beautifully for many to my utter surprise, was an acceptance and weeks after purchase (with 5000 miles on the recognition of the problem in email format clock) but then began a series of stalling at from BMW UK. This time the manager of cross roads or lights. Wollaston BMW kindly customer services, after making one or two took it in, even though they had not supplied checks on work that had been carried out it, and carried out a ‘recall’ mod to the wiring on my bike in the past, sanctioned the work harness and a timing chain tensioner, but necessary to rectify the hot start problem-at could find nothing wrong with the ECU or the expense of BMW UK. anything else. Impressively free of charge. The work was effectively carried out in Again it performed faultlessly for a few the week commencing 17th of March and weeks until it stalled at the lights and this the beast was put to the test on the following The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 13 WORKING WITH
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The drawstring tightens up past the ends of My thanks go out to those of you who normal biking gloves. responded with positive advice to my article in The downside is they are mittens which is Torque Reaction and a very big thank you to fine for normal riding but you have limited BMW UK. (This pie is sticking in my throat!) dexterity if you want to fiddle with switches; Malcolm Barlow I don’t have many on my R100 but if you have North East Section. a modern bike with a computer control centre WORKING WITH on the handlebars that might be a problem. The Kevin Ash Accident The other thing is if you have low handlebars rain might run down your arms and seep in It’s a fact of life that folk often read into a round the drawstring. My bars are quite high letter what they will. (Nick Laskaris, BMW so that doesn’t affect me. Club Journal, April edition). 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Support your local Subsequently the dealership was informed dealer that a ‘fix’ existed for those bikes which had exhibited the hot start issue, and the Having read the past few months of the dealership contacted me to arrange the ‘cure’. club magazine there are two issues that I The following items were retrofitted (again would like to comment on, firstly we are a without charge and in what seemed to be small band of enthusiasts who own and ride quite a short time) and the problem has not BMW motorcycles, we have our own club and recurred:- to my mind we show our enthusiasm for the Part Number Description marque. 1248532735 ‘Loom’ But in the great scheme of things the 61367704174 ‘Relay’ numbers of our club are almost insignificant (These part numbers and descriptions to BMW head office. To engage with BMW were today kindly provided by the dealership I believe we need to be more supportive of the from their computerised service record of dealerships as it seems that we buy our bikes my bike, when I ‘phoned this morning. One and then as soon as the warranty expires we reason perhaps for keeping-up with dealer either service the bikes ourselves or have them servicing, despite the bike being out of normal serviced by independents. warranty?). So how do you really expect the dealers As an aside (and by way of possible to respond if you take the bike back with a explanation, as I understand it) some of the problem? Build up a rapport and relationship K1300 engines exhibit more resistance to with your dealer have the bike serviced (yes I turning over when hot-I speculate that perhaps appreciate it’s not cheap but you get what you increased compression may be the cause. It pay for and they are not a charity) and support would appear that the original wiring loom them at their events-after all its give and take was not able to supply the current necessary on both sides. The only gear I have that is not to overcome that increased resistance – hence BMW is several sets of gloves and a Garmin the requirement for the additional wiring satnav. loom and associated relay whose details are Secondly I have done just that with my included above. dealer Wollaston’s of Northampton, having I know there has been a lot written on my bike serviced by them since I bought it the ‘net’ about starter motors, batteries, and they have looked after me extremely switch gear etc. being attributable to the hot well indeed-I cannot fault them and would start issue for K1300’s but, at least from my recommend them to anyone. experience, fitting the above parts has been Having had over 20 years with BMW the appropriate diagnosis and treatment, with cars with virtually no problems I purchased no recurrence of the symptoms. a BMW K1300GT 2009 model at one Hope this helps and safe biking. year old and 3,600 miles on the clock, my Guy Thomson reasoning being that all the problems with the Ulster Section. K1200GT would be sorted and ironed out and I would be buying a quality product. The The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 17 dealer I bought the bike from was not local to will have no hesitation in using Wollaston, as me so I entrusted the bike to Wollaston’s of the level of service to me has been exceptional Northampton for all servicing and repairs. in my opinion. The only problem for me Approaching 5years and 25,000 miles my is which bike as they no longer make the bike has turned out to be a ‘ Friday ‘ bike and K1300GT. during its time with me I have had four services, Steve Halliday 6k,12k,18k and 24k all at Wollaston’s. They Oxford Section. have always given me a reasonable discount as I show my club membership card, every little And on behalf of the helps as they say. great uninvolved It has had:- • Final drive replacement (corrosion) I guess you could class me a one of the great • Final drive cover replacement (corro- uninvolved-I love reading The Journal, but sion) don’t attend any meetings, don’t comment on • ESA Spring replaced (corrosion) any forums (unless I can help someone) and • Side stand replaced (broken) don’t generally write letters. • Battery replaced (Hot starting prob- So after reading our esteemed editor’s lem) comments in the April Journal I feel I should • Starter Motor replaced (Hot starting offer my sincere thanks to him and all the problem) other people who produce The Journal and • Wiring Loom modification (Hot start- run the club for all of us. I suspect there are ing problem) quite a few of the great uninvolved who are • Right switchgear replaced (Hot start- happy to let the club chug along. We have no ing problem) right to criticise any changes to the running • Left switchgear replaced (horn failure) of the club as we do none of the work involved • Throttle bodies replaced (5000 rpm in running it. So if The Journal needs to be idle) A4 to make it easier to produce, then so be it. • Idle actuator replaced (3000 rpm idle) Equally, rolling subscription make total sense, • Gear selector bearings (not covered by especially if it eases the admin burden on the warranty and cost £25.00) volunteers. As I write the intermittent high idle has In short, I’d like to express my thanks not been resolved but Wollaston are having to you committee/admin lot for your work the bike back to investigate further. Hot and long may you continue to do it! Meet start problem is resolved and it is a problem any criticism with requests to those critics to that head office are aware of. Wollaston have volunteer their services. In the meantime, I’ll always given me a loan bike and I have ridden continue to cruise the stunning mid and north K1600GTL, K1600GT, R1200RT, R1200R Wales roads on my ageing ‘98 GS and smile at and a K1300S for which I have been grateful. the world, returning home to leaf through The Reading through this list you would Journal with a coffee and read about other think HOW MUCH????????????? Well, my folk’s trips across most of the world. contribution to all this has been £80 ish and Cheers and hwyl fawr. the reason is I took out the BMW warranty for Geoff Honeyands which I pay £33.00 per month with no excess Tywyn, North Wales. so all in all I believe I am in front financially. When the time comes to change the bike I 18 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 John Alderson 1942-2014 R.I.P. Remembered by Roger Barr and Mick Taylor
It is with great pride that we take this travelled and shared accommodation with opportunity to write an obituary to John or as Roger Barr. The weather, roads, hotel he was sometimes know, Aldy. John was a well- accommodation and the company could not known and popular member of the North have been better, and John and the rest of us East motorcycling had a fantastic holiday. fraternity. He was On the ferry back to always a pleasure to England John was meet being of a very already planning next happy disposition, year’s trip. with a ready smile and, Sadly shortly after to those who knew his return he fell ill him well, a wicked and was diagnosed sense of humour. with cancer. He was He had a special undergoing treatment affinity with the for this when he fell Scottish six day trial victim to a serious which he attended infection from which for many years. I’ve he never recovered. He no doubt over the died peacefully in the years many struggling Freeman Hospital on competitors have had 12/03/14 surrounded good reason to be by his family. thankful to John who His funeral was in was always quick to the All Saints Church help. Rothbury and it was A thorough standing room only in gentleman of the old this very large church. school. John was a very This just goes to show accomplished, safe and how popular John was stylish rider, who, on in the Rothbury area his faithful GS was and the North East more than a match for many young blades. motorcycling fraternity. Last September ten of us went on a John was a lovely man in every respect and motorcycling holiday to the Picos area in will be sadly missed by all who knew him. Northern Spain. It was John’s first foreign On behalf of the North East section our motorcycling holiday, during which he thoughts are with his family. The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 19 20 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 Forum Jottings and Musings
Following the transfer of the Forum from the Postings like this are usually followed old server to the present one, it appears that members ‘Y and Z’ who echo the point, again the data base is more stable than before and with no satisfactory result. certainly for me, the response time is visibly The answer is simple – first, speak to your quicker. A big thank you must go out to Greg Section Secretary by ‘phone, or send an E Smith for his perseverance to get the work Mail. The contact details are on page 6 of done, despite a couple of hiccups and false every journal. The Secretary should be able to starts. deal with the problem and get a copy to you, There are a number of small points that or arrange for it to be done. If you cannot should be born in mind by users of the forum get in touch with your secretary, speak to the which if ignored only complicate matters and National Membership Secretary. Again the are not serving the people who are posting telephone number or E Mail address is in The them. If I can start out by mentioning these Journal on page 6. are in the main, possibly due to some members If I find out that there is to be a delay, I not fully understanding the right way to deal will always post in the relevant section of the with questions and get the answer they need. forum to let as many know as I can. One of these is the regular topic of the club The ‘Journal On Line’ forum will be Journal not dropping through the respective updated monthly with the next copy of The letterboxes on time. I have been advised by Journal 2 days after I receive mine, this is to the membership Secretary that there is no set allow the copies sent to Ulster and Eire to time except around the end of the month, so arrive, before it is put on line for all to see. As a day or two difference can be normal. Other you probably are aware this remains visible for reasons may be due to the copies being delayed 20 days when it is automatically deleted. arriving at the mailing company.-The mailing company being slow to get them out for a Security number of reasons.-The postal service being Recently there was a request by a member delayed because of the knock-on effect, or who wanted the Admin to give him the simply getting lost in the system. There are newly created password belonging to another two months of the year when The Journal member. Whilst this was in all probability will probably be late. – February due to the honest and above board, passwords are membership renewals and March – To enable personal to the person creating them and will the inclusion of the AGM papers into The not be given out under any circumstances. Journal. Consequently when this happens, there can Posts in the wrong areas. be a number of postings placed on the Forum Right at the top of the forum main page by member ‘X’ pointing out that this/her is an admin area which deals with how to do copy of The Journal has not arrived. Putting things, the Conditions of Membership and the information on the forum is largely a forum updates. These are occasionally being waste of time, not every section Secretary uses used by members who have difficulties with the forum so your point may go unanswered. lost passwords/user names. This will only The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 21 delay a solution. If a member has a problem software this has been done by closing off new with either passwords or user names, get in registrations between the hours of 10pm and touch with either Bill Smithson via PM, or 8am each day. It was found that only rarely did myself, on [email protected] genuine new members register at night, and most of the SPAM was arriving during those Alteration of Profiles hours so closing it off has had positive results. If you need to change your user-name, password or E mail address, There have been Forum Use. cases of where a member has tried to change There have been many posts about the a user mail or password and this has disabled forum being under used. I think I can allay the account. If you wish to change an E Mail your pondering about this. Typically, on the address for one with an AOL, Hotmail, 30th March over the 24 hours period there Yahoo, or G Mail address, this will not be were close to 250 visits by registered members possible, can you please contact the Forum to the forum. These were single visits, not Admin to do this for you. repeat visits by one person. This information Original passwords cannot be recovered is recorded by the software used by the forum. if forgotten because they are invisible to (and it also shows the time). Of course not everyone including the Admin, so once they everyone posts new topics, or replies to current are gone, they are gone. You will be given a ones, but the forum is being used more than new one. some would have us believe. There is a button where you can get a new (I am also involved with an international password automatically, but it will probably photography forum with over 78,000 be nothing like your own or one you want members, their usage is proportionally less and almost impossible to remember. The user than half of ours). name will have to be traced via the database, and this may take a while, but it will be done New Moderator. as soon as it is possible. Last month Dik Langan from the East Anglia section accepted an invitation to join SPAM the Moderation Staff and already his technical The problem we were getting with Spam expertise has proved very useful. Registrations and the multiple threads that were created by them, have at last been The Future. almost killed off. With no alteration to the Our forum software is old. There is no getting around this and would almost certainly benefit from an update. Unfortunately, this may be a long way off. Downloading new forum software from the Internet is free, (and so I am told) relatively easy to set up. However this has to be integrated with the Membership Database which uses different software, so is not as straightforward as it first appears. So don’t hold your breath and use what we have. Best wishes to all John King. Forum admin. 22 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 The Dealer Launch Days Mike Davies was at Cannon Braintree The glorious spell of sunny weather made this led back to the six speed gearbox at the rear of New Bike Launch an excellent day. Many the engine. The drive shaft and silencer have people turned out from early morning and the been reversed with the rear drive now on the showroom was busy all day. A number of new left hand side. Brakes have acquired radially bikes were lined up waiting collection by their mounted Brembos at the front. new owners and my order for a new R1200RT All new bikes have the multi change wheel is in the book! on the left hand handlebar – this accesses the This year is a big change for the boxer computer and where fitted the BMW Nav V engine with which we have become familiar in GPS. that it is now has part-water cooling in place Both GS & RT have LEDs light for of oil. Water is a better transmission of heat indicators, rear light and a road light in the than oil and was brought about by changes headlight. The RT has now two main beam in the emission regulations. The horsepower lights with a single dipped beam in the centre has been upped from 110hp to 125hp. Torque (this is in reverse to earlier RTs). readings are wider across the rev band. A quick look at the RT immediately shows The engines for both the GSA and RT are subtle changes to the fairing and screen. The basically the same new water cooled unit with indicators are separate from the mirrors and both bikes seeing differences in the gearbox the mirrors are slightly smaller, lower and are ratios and suspension settings. This new engine said to work better. They also fold inwards. also has an eight-plate oil bath clutch set right The screen is as before electrically operated in at the front of the engine with a control shaft any positions and returns to the lowest setting
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 23 A special space for the GPS is built in and the unit fits well into this space just above the instruments. Instead of touching the GPS screen to change settings you do this on the new Rider’s view of the R 1200 RT change wheel on the left hand handle bar. The indicator switch when the engine is switched off. is now a single switch again on the left hand The dashboard is completely new for the handle bar (my 1973 R75/5 has this on the RT, being very similar to the K1600GT. A right hand handle bar!) 5.2’’ wide screen, with analogue speedometer A small secure locker is on the front tank on left and analogue rev counter on right, area to the left (if you have the radio fitted shows up all signals in great clarity. The you get another one on the right too) – this computer now has more functions for mileage will take a mobile phone or the GPS for safety reports. Ride and suspension now has three when the bike is left. mode – “Road, Rain and Dynamic”. In The GSA has new fairings and protection “Rain” mode the throttle control is less sharp bars and similar hand controls to those and the suspension automatically changes to mentioned for the RT. Both bikes have ABS, a softer setting. In “Dynamic” mode throttle ASC and ESA suspension. Alloy panniers for movement is instantaneous. It was suggested the GSA and newly designed panniers and top to me that “Rain” mode is better in town box (same as K1600 series) are available for the traffic whatever the weather. RT. I have yet to test ride the RT (I have ridden a new water cooled GS) but from all accounts there has been a significant overall improvement to both RT &GSA. Other bikes at the launch included the R NineT – a naked retro boxer using the oil-head overhead cam engine. The new S1000R in naked Cannon’s R 1200 RT form was also on display but I was not 24 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 able to photograph it! positively assist in safer riding. I collect my Without a doubt BMW Motorrad continue new water cooled RT at the end of March and to produce excellent motorcycles with ever look forward to my continuing relationship increasing levels of electronics, many of which with boxer BMWs.
Lynn Tagg was at Southport Superbikes I arrived at Southport Superbikes at 10am members, Keith Marshall of Lancaster and and the first thing I saw was a Marquee with Steven Griffiths of St. Helens. Several others four shiny bikes on display – an R1200GS, took an application form and journal so S1000R, R1200RT and an RnineT. hopefully I will hear from them shortly. Having been to a launch there before I was Our hosts had supplied food and wine greeted by Gillian and Geraldine, Andy and which was constantly being topped up. Mike, and set my ‘stall’ out near the coffee Everyone thought it had been a good event machine hoping to chat with customers and I left at 4pm. and promote membership. I was pleasantly Southport Superbikes will be at our June surprised at how many Northern Section meeting at St. Michaels on Wyre and will be members turned up so I was rarely short of bringing maybe 5 or 7 bikes for members to conversation. I was thrilled to sign up 2 new test ride.
Southport Superbikes’s R 1200 GSA Cannon’s R Nine T
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 25 The 2014 Raffle Bike
Introduced by Cliff Batley, Vice President The first prize in the BMW Club national it will not get used hence its now the raffle raffle for 2014 is an R75/5. The draw for this prize. The bike does have the original hand and other prizes to be announced will be held pump but not the first aid kit! It would not at the National Rally in Kelso. A book of take much to make this bike into a concours tickets will be sent to every member with The example if you wanted to spend your time Journal, with more being available afterwards polishing but it would make a great second by contacting Cliff Batley by email at cliff@ bike for sunny Sundays or be a great everyday twowheeltrekkers.co.uk or by telephone bike that would take very little looking after. during shop hours on 01787 372901. The R75 will have about 12 months MOT at The R75/5 has had a fair bit of work done the time of the raffle but no tax. It also has a recently:- the frame has been powder coated, few spare parts, a set of crash bars and a screen the wheels rebuilt with stainless spokes and which will come with the bike. the paintwork has all been done as well. The If you missed out on the K1 raffle prize last restoration started out because the wiring year you now have another chance to add to loom was in bad condition so that was stripped your collection and win an R75/5. To enter, out and one thing led to another. The bike please fill out the stubs and return them to has a new loom and modified battery holder the address on the ticket (Cliff Batley, 46 so it just has a small gel battery rather than Newmans Road Sudbury Suffolk CO10 the original lead-acid item. The engine cases 1UA). Please keep the big part of the tickets as have not been polished so will still be easy to your proof of entry. If you want more tickets look after as the restoration was to make it a after those that come withThe Journal please good usable reliable bike. The previous owner contact me or an send an SAE and cheque intended to use it for some European touring payable to The BMW Club and a note saying but a change of circumstances means that how many more tickets you want. 26 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 A Different Approach-A Summer Trip to Slovenia Graham Parker lets the Train (Again) Take Some of the Strain
During the winter months of 2012- 2013 we The plan was to leave Mansfield, decided to plan a trip to Slovenia. OK-a fair Nottinghamshire, and travel down to the old trip-but I had seen an advert for a train channel tunnel and then cross under/over that could take the bike, plus rider and pillion, to Calais. We would then head north up to down to Slovenia to the coastal town of Koper. the train station at S-Hertogenbosch in the The trip plan, after the train dumped the Netherlands. This would be a journey of 407 party in Koper, Slovenia, was to move up to miles. We had looked at the option of taking the Slovenian Alps, Austrian Alps, on to the the ferry from Hull, but the docking time for Dolomites, and then north to Germany and this ferry was too close to the loading time for the Black Forest. We would travel north via the train, so the drive overland was selected. the N9, and follow the Rhine for a while, then S-Hertogenbosch is a very nice, small over into the Forest of Belgium. town with plenty of restaurants and other
Good Friends
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 27 attractions. The train station is very easy to stunning views of the lake, which would be find and the loading of the bike simple. Once our base for the next few days. shown to your carriage for the journey, it’s Next we moved onto Austria-a journey simply a matter of settling down for what’s a of 110 miles-taking in a few low-level passes fair old trip. The route takes you through the using the B111. Our aim was to try and get Netherlands, Germany, Austria and most of over the Grossglockner Pass. Our hotel, the Slovenia-taking in views of the Rhine and the Strasserwirt, had again been pre-booked, Alps along the way. and actually sits just on the border of Italy & The train offers a choice of meals-one Austria. It proved to be a very good quality option being a sit-down meal in the restaurant hotel, and its position was top-class, being car. This is expensive, but provides very good located on the B100, just fourteen miles west food-and it passes a few hours away. from Lienz. Sleeping in the carriage was OK-if a little The Grossglockner Pass was a 100-mile disturbed. ... Early next morning breakfast round trip from the hotel-and we made it this was served just before arriving in Koper. The time! The last time we tried to make the pass, ‘de-bus’ of the passengers and vehicles was snow in July put a stop to any attempt, but very efficient. made for good fun. Now we were on our own, dumped and Over the next few days we had a few runs abandoned in Koper. The temperature was over into the Dolomites and back to our in the mid-20s °C-a bit of a change from the ‘base’ hotel, taking in a sauna or two for good previous day! measure. A short run of 96 miles took us to Lake From the Strasserwirt it was on to our next Bled Slovenia and our pre-booked hotel, with destination – this time it was a case of ... “No
Lake Bled, Slovenia
28 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 plan, let’s just see what happens.” ... on the ferry was top quality – the best I have Over the Italian Dolomites and into ever had on any ferry by a long way-and there Austria-taking in a selection of stunning were good bars and entertainment for the roads-then out of the Alps, taking the Fern evening. Pass and B179 into Germany, and onto Fussen The trip home from Hull was only 80 for the night. Next day it was on to Garmisch- miles, so a little better than the 220-mile slog Partenkirchen, via one of the best roads-the up from the Channel Tunnel. Plansee L255-a journey of 358 miles. We spent This trip was different as the train option three nights in Garmisch, which allowed time gives you a lot more time ‘down south’-and for some sightseeing. The town is definitely more time to play in ... ‘them there hills.’ worth a visit. Would I do it again? Yes!-And I plan to do We moved on from Garmisch- just that. The Midland Section is planning a Partenkirchen into the Black Forest, a journey trip to Lake Garda during 2014, and the train of 300 miles, and stayed in a roadside hotel just option has been taken to get the party down outside Titsee. We continued on to the Rhine, to Alessandria in Italy. taking some cracking roads through the Black The train south was booked via a business Forest, including the B500. Such fun! going by the name of ‘Railsavers’, who can After leaving the Black Forest, I thought be found on the internet using this name to it best to transverse this part of Germany the locate them. Currently they run three trains ‘fast’ way, using motorway-type roads to get south, two into Italy and one into Slovenia. onto the N9. We travelled alongside the Rhine All three trains leave S-Hertogenbosch on a for a pre-booked hotel in Sankt Goar, having Friday. covered 250 miles. One night in Sankt Goar is enough for anyone. ... Western Section Next day we travelled a few more miles Black & White Camping Weekend alongside the Rhine, before turning west to find the forest roads, passing Nürburgring and 6th to 8th June continuing on to Spa, Belgium. Townsend Farm We had no pre-booked hotel in Spa- Touring and Camping Park, and paid the price. It was a case of ... “No Pembridge, room at the inn!” ... It was a race weekend, Nr Leominster so everywhere was full-up. A revised plan HR6 9HB resulted in a decision to make for Brugge, on to a hotel that we all liked the look of. A quick Excellent facilities phone call to book the same, and off we went. Farm shop on site It meant a 360-mile ride, but now we had two Section BBQ on Saturday days in Brugge, not one as originally planned, £5.50 pppn for a small tent Caravans & motor homes but ... ‘Hey-ho!” ... it’s a good place to get lost, as they do sell good beer! welcome Friday and it was on to Zeebrugge, a short Numbers required trip of only twelve miles, for the ferry to Hull. All Club members welcome There’s not a lot to do in Zeebrugge, so my Contact: Sue & Colin Ross advice is not to get there early! 01562 820458 This was the first time we had taken this way home-and very good it was too! The food The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 29 MotoGoLoco support the BMW Club
Hillcrest House-Thorpe, Dovedale, Ashbourne, DE6 2AW
Introduced by Jim Bettley, National Social Secretary
It is always pleasing to be able to report country’s premier motorcycling venues and another benefit to being a member of our areas, which the Club will use as prizes for Club, so added to the superb support we have competitions and at National Rallies and the secured from Metzeler Tyres, I am pleased like. MotoGoLoco has a great reputation so I to introduce a fabulous opportunity from a am delighted our Club is to be associated with company called MotoGoLoco. them. MotoGoLoco is an international company MotoGoLoco’s James Miodonski said “It with a strong regional office based in the is a pleasure to partner up with the club as it UK. They focus on all aspects of Motorcycle has excellent national coverage and owners of touring including having access to a huge the marquee are renowned for their travelling range of biker-friendly, checked and accredited and touring spirit. MotoGoLoco is all about hotels and B&Bs situated all over the country. getting out on your bikes and making sure To ensure the facilities maintain the that you have a great experience; from the very high standards MotoGoLoco provide moment you start planning your trip right free hotel and B&B places for selected up to the time you return home and start motorcyclists and all they ask in return is a few working out the next one. We have no doubt lines by way of a review. there is capacity to build even further upon Several directors of MotoGoLoco are this partnership in the future.” BMW motorcyclists and members of our A visit to their website (www.motogoloco. Club and in a bid to add value to our Club com) shows some very user friendly mapping membership have offered a number of free and route building tools and the fact that all night’s accommodation at some of the of their accommodation is checked, reviewed 30 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 and endorsed is very reassuring. I hope this is just the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship which will benefit both sides and provide yet another reason to join our Club. Watch out for these free nights as prizes, firstly at both the Spring and August Nationals, but there will be scope to extend their availability across a much wider area of Club activities. I hope all the recipients have a great Joan & Barry of Corrie House time, wherever they BnB-Ardfern, PA31 8UA stay.
The Buccleuch Arms Hotel Moffat
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 31 An Invitation From The BMW Car Club
Introduced by Jim Bettley, National Social Secretary Many of you may already know that the from our pitch, which will be right in front of BMW Car Club put on an annual show the museum. at the National Heritage Centre, Gaydon, This is an excellent opportunity to promote Warwickshire, just off Junction 12 of the M40. the BMW Club to a very wide audience, This is a huge show with around 8000 visitors particularly as many BMW car enthusiasts on the day and includes a show arena as well also own a BMW Motorcycle. as the hundreds of show cars and access to the The President and I have accepted our museum. This year it is called CLUBBMW14 direct invitations so I am able to offer the and will take place on Sunday 17th August – opportunity for 8 other motorcycles to attend and we have been invited to attend. as well as a car (of any make!) for whoever We have the opportunity to put up club should be kind enough to agree to bring a banners and a small marquee (in case of small marquee and some banners. inclement weather) and display up to 10 If you would like to come along and take motorcycles, including the option to take part part please contact me directly on the email in an arena display. address or phone number given on page 6 of Those who display a motorcycle will The Journal. Although it would be ideal to be provided with a display badge (which display a wide range of ages and models of gives direct access to the site via the display BMW motorcycles, the only practical way to entrance) and two wristbands which give free manage things is for it to be on a first-come access to all areas of the show, including the first-served basis. So, if you want to be part of museum. There will also be a display badge our stand please contact me ASAP. and two wristbands available for whoever I have no doubt it will be a great day out brings the marquee and banners to the and I hope this is just the beginning of a long ground. The parking for this person’s car will standing association between our two clubs. be in the display car park less than 100 yards 32 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 The new R1200RT: an owners road test
Lauren Lesourd with the test R1200RT at Bahnstormer Maidenhead The findings of the Oxford Section collated by Steve Moxey
The Raison d’Etre modern age started in 1992 with the new The idea of an owners’ road test is to give a oil/air cooled boxer engines, again first flavour of what a motorcycle is like in daily introduced in the R1100RS followed in ownership and use. Whilst the motorcycling press produces very good road test reports they do not often have the depth of experience that BMW Club members develop through long-term ownership. Our thanks to Lauren Lesourd of Bahnstormer Maidenhead for providing his 2014 R1200RT for the BMW Club test.
Introduction & History BMW was the first company to offer an integrated fairing on a production motorcycle with the 1977 R100RS and two years later the R100RT was launched with a full touring fairing. The air cooled RT has evolved over the years with better brakes, monolever suspension and numerous detailed improvements. The The BMW RT 35 Years in Production The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 33 1998 by the R1100RT. The new RT was a lowered suspension. Overall it feels slightly revelation: In Bruce Preston’s excellent book higher than before. The bike is marginally BMW Motorcycles the Complete Story the heavier, but the extra weight is not noticeable. author said ‘I have ridden every BMW made If anything it feels lighter to wheel in the car since 1950...all pale into insignificance when park. The centre stand is better balanced than compared to the R1100RT’. before and it is very easy to lift the bike on to A decade later, in 2005, BMW introduced the stand, whereas the 2012 R1200RT needed the R1200RT, which offered moremore effort. The controls are reminiscent of performance, better handling and less weight the K1600GT, including the rotating wheel. with both single cam and later twin cam The instrument display is also similar to the engines. This model has become the touring K1600GT, but more stylish. The panniers and benchmark: by 2012 the R1200RT had top box are again derived from the K1600GT, topped the annual Rider Power Survey three including the fixing mechanism for the top times in a row. box which is bolted to the rear of the bike. This year BMW is introducing the new water-cooled boxer engine in the 2014 Riding the New R1200RT R1200RT. Does this give the competition a chance or is the new R1200RT set to continue Engine: its run of 35 years as the leading touring The new engine feels very strong with a motorcycle? lovely warbling sound. Open the throttle slightly to load the engine and the sound deepens, but never gets too loud. This water- cooled boxer engine in the 2014 RT has definitely benefited from changes made since the launch of the 2013 R1200GS. There is extra weight on the crankshaft and the gearing is slightly longer which produces a very refined powertrain. By contrast the 2013 R1200GS feels more urgent but can also seem buzzy and gives the impression that is needs to be worked hard. The new version of the water-cooled boxer engine seems well suited to the touring character of the motorcycle. 2014 RT Front View
First impressions From the front the new RT looks a lot like the K1600GT. It has a strong presence; certainly it appears to have a larger frontal area than the previous model. While riding it, cars coming the other way showed respect, and cars seeing the RT in their mirrors often allowed the bike to pass. The saddle is narrower than the previous RT, but the saddle height is 10 mm higher than the 2012 R1200RT with Refined Water-Cooled Boxer Engine 34 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 Handling: the K1600GT. However, the K1600GT still The new bike seems lighter to ride than its has a slightly better power to weight ratio predecessor. Fast or slow it seems to lean over than the RT, and the engine is smoother and without a hint of losing balance or falling into more effortless. In any case, compared to the the corners. When taking corners the engine previous R1200RT the performance of the torque seems to pull the bike through. In a new RT is leagues ahead. straight line the bike is stable at speed without weave. The steering damper probably helps and Controls and Ride by Wire Throttle is now fitted to the new 2014 GS Adventure The new ride by wire throttle seems perfect. as well. The two tested 2014 R1200RTs had BMW has learnt from the experience with the Continental and Metzeler tyres respectively. K1600 series where the throttle did not give Comparison indicates that tyre choice much feedback. By comparison the throttle will affect the feel of the motorcycle. The on the RT is so good you might not notice it new Dynamic ESA works very well and was electronic. The smoothness of the throttle is unobtrusive in operation allowing the may be helped by the multi-plate oil bath suspension to work well in all conditions. clutch, the added weight in the crankshaft, or Compared to the previous R1200RT the new the extra shock absorber in the drive train. In bike is even easier to ride at low speeds. any case the results are very impressive. The new RT uses the switchgear from Performance: the K1600 series, with rotary controller and For the 600 miles running-in period the menu system. Together with the LCD colour 2014 R1200RT is limited to 5000 rpm, dashboard the system is easy to use and allows equivalent to 90 mph in top gear, and the fine control of heated grips and other settings. engine pulls eagerly. In fact the bike likes to The switchgear is similar to the previous RT run at higher revs than the previous RT. The and has been prone to failure, hopefully this powerband is very broad and the engine pulls is now fixed. well above 2000 rpm. The eco-shift warning can be set, if required, to suggest when a gear change in needed. The engine has a significant amount of torque throughout the rev range, certainly from about 1500 rpm upwards, and pulls away with ease from low speed: the new oil bath clutch may be helping. One of our test team has purchased a new 2014 R1200RT to replace his 2012 R1200RT and is very satisfied: several‘ times I opened the throttle and found my arms were stretched and I was hanging on as the bike accelerated away. I am getting used to this wonderful torque now New Dashboard and Sat-Nav Mount that I have done over 950 miles in 8 days. It is remarkable how much performance increase has been achieved with only 9% more power It feels Comfort/Weather Protection as if the performance is 30% better’. The weather protection is good, there also On the open road the 2014 RT is a very are new deflectors in front of the handlebars, fast motorcycle and the performance rivals which are fixed unlike the moveable items The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 35 on the K1600, and with the mirrors give previously, the new top box is bolted to the new good hand protection. Whether the lack RT, which gives a firmer mount but means it of adjustment is an issue in hotter weather is less easy to remove the top box quickly. The time will tell. The new RT has the electric luggage can be centrally locked and there is a windscreen, which seems to be more effective light inside the top box. than before. Electronics and Driving Aids The handlebar rotary control works well, even on the move, and is used to control the menu system and a BMW Navigator V sat nav. The system is similar to the K1600 and becomes intuitive after a few days use. A tip for K1600/RT owners if you push the wheel to the left, opposite direction to select, this will bring you back to the start of the menus. The mounting of the LCD display can be customised. The BMW Navigator V has a New Mirrors are Smaller but Effective built in mount but is not secured in a locked position by the windscreen, so owners would Luggage want to remove the sat nav if leaving the The new luggage system is very similar to motorcycle unattended. the K1600 system, perhaps the panniers and top box should be interchangeable between the two models? There is now only one small compartment in the petrol tank cover, although there are two compartments if the radio option is chosen for the iPhone and USB interfaces! Perhaps it would be a good idea if all models came with two compartments? The small compartments are useful for money, toll tickets and passports. As mentioned
Rotary Control and Switchgear
Clutchless gear changes work well, but most riders will be very used to operating the clutch with their left hand anyway. During normal riding of a touring motorcycle clutchless gear changes may be unnecessary but if the rider wished to maximise acceleration they would K1600-style Luggage be useful. 36 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 The Hill Assist is activated by pulling bike has exceeded all expectations. How could firmly on the brake lever when the bike is a bike that was so good as the 2012 RT be stopped, which causes an H to appear next to improved so much in one development cycle? the gear indicator showing that the Hill Assist The mouth waters to think of the possibility is engaged and the rear brake applied to stop of variable valve timing, now that there is one the bike rolling backwards. Accelerating away camshaft for the inlet valves and one for the releases the brake automatically. In practice an exhaust valves. experienced rider can probably do a smoother hill start using the controls than by relying Bob (R1200RT Single Cam owner) on electronics. However the Hill Assist My first BMW was an early R1100RT, could be very valuable when starting two- which to me seemed so much more advanced up with luggage on a steep mountain road. than any other BMW that I had ridden Interestingly the Hill Assist is implemented by that I felt it set a benchmark for scale of a software code, all the hardware is in the ABS improvement. Nothing really changed until system. In theory the RT could be upgraded the first R1200RT. The big improvement to Hill Assist by the dealer or perhaps by using really was the reduced weight, which played a GS 911? a major part in making it a faster and more agile machine. More modern suspension Test Ratings and Individual Verdicts parts in conjunction with electronics also We also asked each of our testers for their helped of course. I do not consider that any of views and whether they would spend their the changes to the R1200RT have made any own money on the new RT. Here is what significant improvement to the model and everyone thought. often wondered why they bothered to spend all that money on twin cams and things which Steve W (Previously R1200RT Twin Cam hardly made a difference. owner, now R1200RT 2014 owner) If BMW had put the first version of the I have bought one. I ordered it last water-cooled engine in the RT, I am quite November. BMWs are so good, what was the certain that it would have not been much risk? RTs are so good, what was the risk? The better than its oil cooled relatives. This latest
Item R1200RT Item R1200RT 2014 2014 Engine performance 9.8 Pillion comfort 7.0 Fuel consumption 6.2 Instruments 9.0 Handling, suspension 8.7 Mirrors coverage, location 8.3 Steering 8.0 Windscreen protection 8.2 Brakes 7.0 Controls switches, lever 7.5
Riding position, seat 7.2 Seat height, reach to ground 7.5 comfort Ride quality 7.7 Build quality 6.5 R1200RT 2014 Comparison to the Oil Cooled R1200RT (10=better, 5=same, 1=worse)
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 37 version of the water-cooled engine is a proper new members, but as I was there, thought I improvement and in conjunction with the wet would have a test ride on the new RT. Well…. be clutch, new gearbox and the latest suspension a shame not too. So, I had a thirty minute slot is a real treat to ride about on despite having to take the bike out and I used a combination some horrible Metzeler Tyres fitted. I would of winding country roads and some dual buy one if mine had done a few more miles. carriageway to get a good feel. I ended up taking a bit longer than 30 minutes
Overall Test Conclusions The RT is BMW’s most important model GS/GSA. So the good news for BMW is that our testers rated the 2014 RT as better than the 2013 RT in every category. Possibly the only problem facing prospective owners is justifying the extra cost of a new RT if you have a very serviceable R1200RT already! When owners come to replace their existing RTs they will find the new model an excellent alternative. Bike Safe Police R 1200 RTs The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 39 MAY 2014 MEMBER DISCOUNTS The following businesses have agreed to join the BMW Club Discount Scheme. Most already take advertisements within the Journal. See these advertisements for additional information. Please quote your membership number when making an enquiry or purchase.
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Mottorad re-visited the heavenly roads of the quick succession of bends is encountered does Pyrenees, the area where the Triumph Trophy its high c-of-g count against it. The engine SE won victory over the BMW R1200RT at delivers its power smoothly and evenly thanks the end of 2012, with these two giants in their to a plateau-like torque curve, but the there is latest incarnations. The latest version of the no “kick” from around 5,000 rpm as found on Yamaha FJ1300 equipped with electronically the other two bikes. The Triumph impresses adjustable suspension came along to keep these with its instant throttle response, steadiness two honest. As leading lights of the touring under changes of power, least shaft drive wind- class all three have shaft drive, electric screen, up and lack of vibration up to the red line. height adjustable seats, panniers, ABS, fly- By contrast the Yamaha, shod with by-wire-throttle with cruise control, traction stable Bridgestone BT023 tyres in “E”-spec, control and a host of other features. requires a lot of care when negotiating the The boxer engine of R1200RT sounds twisties and is no handling wonder-child. A more refined than in the GS .The crankshaft change to Continental or Metzeler rubber and alternator rotor are almost 1kg and might moderate the understeer, but then the 250gm heaver respectively and this can be felt hero-blobs on the footrests would be worn at idle as the engine rocks slightly from side away even faster. The power-plant of the to side when throttle is applied and released. FJR1300 packs the most powerful punch of First gear makes a traditional clonk when the trio particularly in Sport mode; the “T” selected as do the other two. The Triumph in Tourism mode could also stand for Tame idles initially at up to 2,500 rpm for a while, and feels as if it’s permanently in the fourth reminiscent of the Kawasaki choke era. The of its five gears. There is rather more pitching 317 kg Triumph, 35kg heavier than the fully when applying throttle in Sport mode and equipped RT, requires considerable heft to the B-road fuel consumption drops to 48 mpg push around and put onto its centre-stand compared to the 52 mpg of the Triumph and thanks to its high centre of gravity. Although 58 mpg of the BMW. The turbine-like power the Yamaha appears more svelte than the delivery of the FJR is of no advantage on these others, it still weighs in at 306kg. All the winding Pyrenean roads and there is some engines have plenty of poke low down in the vibration through the pegs and bars above rev range, which makes early up-changes 4,000 rpm – and a sixth gear would be useful a pleasure. The BMW clutch is light but for motorway cruising. difficult to modulate, whilst the Yamaha’s is The RT turns over at 3,900 rpm at 62 the heaviest. The gearbox on the Triumph has mph giving a theoretical maximum speed of a typically uneven action but the machine is 142 mph compared to around 3,500 rpm and surprisingly well balanced when moving off 165 mph for other two machines. Again the from rest. heavier crankshaft is a benefit and the BMW The Triumph steers accurately and handles pulsates cleanly but never annoyingly. Of the in a light-footed manner; it is not until a two modes that control the sensitivity of the The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 45 traction control and ABS, “Road” mode is offers a plethora of adjustability options on perfect for this terrain. The third, Dynamic its electronic suspension and steers when set mode costs extra. The lighter RT pulls away to passenger and luggage as well as it does from the other two on twisty, narrow mountain solo. However raising the rear of the machine roads and is the most agile thanks to having in this way makes the ride uncomfortable the shortest wheelbase and tightest turning when no passenger is present. Whichever circle. It attacks hairpin bends eagerly thanks suspension mode is in operation the rear strut to its low centre of gravity, whilst the Michelin is underdamped under rebound allowing Pilot Road 4 GT tyres offer plenty of grip. The the back end of the bike to rise too quickly. BMW cockpit is controlled easily from the left The load ratings of the Triumph, BMW and handlebar and sets new standards for quality Yamaha are 237, 213 and 198 kg respectively. and quantity of presentation. The new gear- The hard setting on the BMW ESA is only change assistant makes clutch-less changes suitable for really smooth surfaces; indeed easy and is fun to use on these mountain after a morning start the BMW requires a few roads. The semi-active suspension of the first kilometres for the suspension fluids to warm RT was set uncomfortably hard, giving rise to up before the ride settles down properly. tipping into curves, as though the front and It is the Triumph that sets the standard for rear wheels were not aligned. The test could ride and suspension comfort in this trio. Its only be continued on a replacement machine, White Power electronic suspension smooths which was also set somewhat on the firm side, out surface imperfections, potholes and frost- such that the ride was harsh and “crashy” ravaged surfaces amazingly well, offering the over smaller surface imperfections. The FJR two-wheeled equivalent of a Mercedes S-class
BMW 1200RT Triumph Trophy SE Yamaha FJR1300 Top Speed mph 138 137 152 Acceleration 0-62 mph 3.4 4.0 3.2 Acceleration 0-88 mph 5.8 6.6 5.6 Acceleration 0-125 mph 13.4 14.7 12.2 Pulling power 37-88 mph in top gear 3.9 5.2 4.7 Pulling power 50-90 mph in top gear 4.2 5.5 4.6 Pulling power 88-112 mph in top gear 5.4 7.7 5.5 Crankshaft BHP (Dyno-test) 128 132 140 Torque Nm 124@6,400 117@6,800 133@8,100 Fuel consumption – touring (economy mode) 58 52 48 Weight – fully fuelled (kg) – as tested 282 317 306
46 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 ride even when fully laden. The high and wide of the Yamaha is unworthy of a flagship tourer. bars are quite a stretch away and the footrests The ABS operates slowly and coarsely whilst are set forward, which leads to a somewhat pumping is noticeable through the front lever. passive riding position. The lowest setting on As a result the BMW brakes better downhill the very comfortable seat is the same as the on broken surfaces than the Yamaha does on highest setting on the other two. The FJR perfectly level asphalt. When braking from has the smallest fairing and roomiest riding 60mph the Yamaha is still travelling at 20 position and is more suited to those with the mph when the BMW has come to a halt after longest legs. The low and rather hard pillion 39 metres. The sheer stopping power of the seat is the easiest to access. The BMW and BMW is attributable to the fact that the lever, Triumph have superbly protective windscreens which has a rather vague bite point, operates that allow rding with open visors and full all three brakes. The rear wheel can dance enjoyment of the integrated entertainment around a little under these conditions and the systems; the BMW sounds better but the Triumph holds its line more tidily. Triumph has the more sensitive reception. The final points tally, scored out of 1000, The fully-raised screen of the FJR will cause was BMW 748, Triumph 736 and Yamaha spectacles to dance on one’s nose if the visor is 704 (all very respectable results for touring left open, but when lowered the shoulders are machines tested by Motorrad) making the RT in smoother airflow. Screen adjustment here the winner of this comparison and well as the is via the menu system rather than the more most expensive machine on test. convenient, separate switch of the other two. When it comes to braking, the performance
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The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 47 Regalia and Merchandise
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The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 49 The Social Scene What’ s happening out and about, brought to you by the National Social Secretary
By the time this piece appears in The Journal away from a fabulous weekend having made a the AGM will have come and gone and I may profit by attending! not even be in post anymore! Assuming that Preparations for the 2014 August National I am(!), what is next on my to-do list? Well, at Kelso are well under way, with details and unless I have been able booking forms already to resolve things before in The Journal. This site hand, it must be to try and has been considerably encourage a Section or two upgraded since our last visit to take on the AGM and but the scenery remains the the August National for same – spectacular! I must 2015. thank Jim and Judy Lepley I have been speaking to and the team for stepping a couple of Sections who in and bringing their event are considering taking a year forward when the on the task, but I fully original 2014 organisers understand their caution pulled out. And I must also before throwing their hats add another thanks here into the ring. Speaking to to Metzeler – who have those who have run such events, it is not the provided two vouchers for a pair of tyres each overwhelming undertaking it may initially for prizes at this event. seem, which is why I am developing an aide- The weather has finally broken and a few memoir to assist in eating this particular more of our bikes are making an appearance elephant one mouthful at a time. now. The number of Club events available is I do hope that volunteers will come truly amazing as a quick look through The forward to put on these events as it would be a Journal will confirm. There are the Section real shame if our flagship National event does adverts, Around the Compass and the Diary not take place. If you have any questions or of Events. I reckon, if you were so minded, you would like to talk things through please email could very nearly have somewhere to go every me or call me on the contact details on page 6 day. of The Journal. What does this say about the Social health Our next National Event will be the North of our Club? We may have to shake up some East Section’s Borders Motorrad Weekend at aspects of how we do business, but one of the Bellingham from 16th to 18th May. Not only main reasons to join or stay in the Club (the is this set in some of the most beautiful areas social events) is alive and kicking – great stuff! in the world, you also have a chance to win a As usual I will not just be attending events set of Metzeler motorcycle tyres, courtesy of run by my own Section (Southern), so hope Metzeler UK. With each tyre being worth to have a chance to have a chat with members more than £100, you could actually come from all over the country. If you see me about 50 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 please come over. I really do appreciate all the feedback and comments as it helps to focus the way forward. Don’t forget the BMW bike day at the Ace Café on the 11th May on the North Circular NW10 7UD. The Southern Section will be there so you can be assured of a warm welcome as well as enjoying looking at the host of BMW’s of all ages that call in. And don’t forget all the classic bikes on display inside the café which lays on a great range of food for the hungry biker. I hope to see you there. Lastly it would be remiss of me not to thank Jim Worland of Metzeler UK for his generous support for our two nationals this year – on top of which he has also offered a voucher for a pair of tyres as a prize for the winner of the Mileage Competition too. Thanks Jim! In the meantime, enjoy your riding and enjoy your club. Jim Bettley National Social Secretary
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 51 Where We Meet These are the regular meetings for each Section, along with the contact details for the Social Secretary and the meeting organiser. Please send Where We Meet changes to the Editor
ast Anglia: Peter Dutton 07950 631 735. Burton on Trent Staffs DE13 8DZ [email protected] 1st Tuesday, 19.30: New Inn. Wolvey Road, 1st Sunday:12.00, The Cricketers, Spring Lane, Bulkington CV12 9JF. Fordham Heath, Colchester, CO3 9TG. 2nd Wednesday, 19.00: The Clock Warehouse, 1st Wednesday: 12.00, The Three Tunns, London Road, Shardlow, DE72 2GL. Weathersfield Rd, Finchingfield, Essex, CM7 4NR. 2nd Thursday, 19.30: The Dog, Henley Road, 2nd Sunday: 12.00 noon, The Chequers, 7 Mappleborough Green, Studley, B80 7DR. Church Road, Wimbotsham. Norfolk, PE34 3QG 3rd Wednesday, 12.00: Pensioners & Layabouts 3rd Sunday: 12.00, The Cross Ways Inn, Bridge meet at Springslade Lodge Tearooms, Camp Road, Scole, Diss IP21 4DP Road, Broadhurst Green, Cannock Chase. WS12 3rd Wednesday: 12.00, The Lamb and Flag, Main 4PT. Street, Welney, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE14 3rd Sunday 10.00: Tony’s Diner, A442 Quatford 9RB. Bridgnorth-Kidderminster Road Shropshire WV15 2nd and 4th Sundays: Various Café and Pub 6QL. John Humpherson 01922 710694. meetings see diary of events for details. Last Wednesday 19.30: Roman Way Hotel, Watling Street, Hatherton, Cannock, West RISH: Chris Wright 00 353 83 0032400. irish. Midlands. WS11 1SH. [email protected] Every Tuesday, April-September 18.30: Cork IDLAND: Jim Beach 01908 373 327 or 07415 Ride Out from TexOil Petrol Station, Glounthaune. M683 120 [email protected] Con O’Leary, 087 259 4784 conor@olearystone. 1st Tuesday 19.30: The Three Kings, Saltersway, com and Liam Quinlan 086 825 2774. Threekingham, Lincs NG34 0AU, 01529 240249. 1st Tuesday, 20.00: Limerick meeting Woodfield 2nd Sunday 12.00-15.00 : Barnsdale Gardens House Hotel, Ennis Road, Limerick, Pat Mulcahy Tea Rooms, The Avenue, Exton,Oakham,Rutland, 087 237 7312. LE15 8AH 2nd Sunday, March-November: Dublin ride-outs 2nd Thursday 19.30: The Old Reindeer, Main St., meet at: Spa Hotel (near Lucan) 10:00am, Jim Edingley Notts, NG22 8DE. Sweeney 087 230 0736 [email protected] 3rd Wednesday 19.30: The Horseshoe, 2 2nd Sunday 12.00: North West Meeting. Patrick Overstone Rd, Sywell, Northamptonshire, NN6 Munnelly 086 338 3499 [email protected] 0AW, 01604 642286. Last Thursday 20.00: Dublin Meeting West 3rd Thursday 19.30: The King’s Head, Kingsway, County Hotel, Chapelizod, Jim Sweeney 087 230 Tealby, Lincs LN8 3YA, 01673 838347. 0736 [email protected]. Breakfast meets: Occasional Sundays, October to March: The Rangers Cycle Clubhouse, off Islington ONDON: Peter Jones 07710 887 958 peter. Road, Towcester, Northants. See Diary or Forum [email protected] and Nick Fry 01438 749 for details. 913 Section meets are as rideouts and are irregular. ORTH EAST: Graham Walker 07931 710 991 Please see the website and The Journal Diary [email protected] for meets. 1st Wednesday, 19.30: The Travellers Rest in the village of Witton Gilbert just off the A691 on the ERCIA: Colin Ainsworth 01332 874 935 or road to Lanchester. 07799 653 789 [email protected] M 3rd Wednesday, 19.30: The Wagon Inn, 3 miles See diary for dates and times: Repton Village NW of Ponteland on A696, NE20 0DH. Hall, Askew Grove, Repton, DE65 6GR. All run start points are printed in the Diary. Hoar Park, The Craft Every Wednesday, 09.30: Please contact the ride leader if there is any Village, Nuneaton Road, Church End, CV10 0QU doubt. for breakfast. 1st Sunday, 10.30: Brunch/Breakfast at Barton ORTHERN: Peter McCombie 01228 594 792 Marina Tea Rooms, Barton under Needwood, [email protected] 52 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 1st Friday, 20.00: The Briars Hall Hotel, Horton, BH21 7JH. 01258 840297. Burscough. Vera Hunt 01257 464429. Monday every three weeks, 20.00: The 2nd Thursday, 14.00: Settle Market Place BD24 Cricketers Arms, 232 Chestnut Avenue, North 9ED. Barry Warner 01617 611 702. Stoneham, Chandlers Ford, SO53 3HN. 023 8062 1st Sunday November and 2nd Sunday 9878. December to March, 13.00: Rixton Community Hall, Manchester Rd, Rixton, Warrington. OUTH EAST: Debbie Morris 0208 301 1600 2nd Sunday April to October, 13.00: St. [email protected] Michael’s on Wyre Village Hall, Blackpool Road, 1st/3rd Wednesdays, 20.00: The Bull, Lower St. Michael’s on Wyre, PR3 0UA. Road, East Farleigh, nr Maidstone, ME15 0HD 3rd Tuesday, 19.30: The Highwayman, Peel, Isle 2nd Friday, 19.30: The Golden Cross Inn at of Man. Harvey Garton 01624 625140. Golden Cross Nr Hailsham, on A22. BN27 4AW Last Monday, 7.30pm: The Harraby Inn, London Last Friday, 20.00: Borders meet. Rd, Carlisle. Last Sunday, 12.00: Lunchtime meet. See Diary for details. XFORD: John Broad 01869 324 008. john. [email protected] OUTH WEST: Don Rabson 01840 212 913 1st Tuesday, 19.00: The Dashwood Arms, Old [email protected] Oxford Road, Piddington HP14 3BH Don’t know day, 12.00: The Weary Traveller, 1st Thursday 19.00: The Churchill Arms, at West Station Rd., Cullompton, EX15 1BQ. 100 yards Lavington (A360) High Street SN10 4JB. from M5 J28 on the A318. 2nd Tuesday, 19.30: The Harcourt Arms, at New meeting places are being looked for. Stanton Harcourt OX29 5RJ. LSTER: Stuart Greig 02897 528 526, 3rd Tuesday 18.30: The Sun Inn at Coate [email protected] Swindon SN3 6AA. U 1st Tuesday except January & August, 20.00: 4th Wednesday 20.00: The Fox and Hounds at Corr’s Corner, Glengormley, Co. Antrim. Sunnyside, Theale, Nr Reading, RG7 4BE. Wednesday evenings from beginning of April to 2nd Sundays 14.00 (Winter): Uffington Village Hall, Oxfordshire, SN7 7RA. end of August, 19.00: run from Corr’s Corner Sunday/Wednesday, 11.00: runs from Corr’s COTTISH: Judy Lepley 01592 874 592 Corner throughout the year, weather dependant. [email protected] 1st Sunday , 12.00: Log Cabin Hotel, Glen Derby, ESTERN: Denis Bradbeer 01454 775 786 Kirkmichael, Perthshire, PH10 7NA [email protected] 2nd Sunday, 12.00: The Bankfoot Inn, Bankfoot, 2nd Sunday, 13.30: The Hood Memorial Hall, Perthshire PH1 4AB. Devauden, Chepstow. NP16 6PL. 2nd Monday, 19.30: Douglas Park Motorrad, East 1st Tuesday, 20.00: New Inn, Ombersley Road, Kilbride, G74 3XH. Claines, Worcester. Bob Dunn 01384 390344 3rd Sunday, 12.30: Buccleuch Arms Hotel, High 1st Wednesday, 19.30: The Lamb Inn, Wotton Street, Moffat DG10 9ET. Road, Iron Acton, Bristol, BS37 9UZ. 4th Sunday, 12.30: Hopeville Social Club, Harlaw 2nd Tuesday, 11.00: Dick Lovetts, Laurel Court, Road, Inverurie. Cribbs Causeway, Bristol. BS10 7TU. OUTHERN: Erica Body 07528 873 056 ORKSHIRE: Piers K. 07866 622 196 yorkshire. [email protected] and Gerri [email protected] Chandler 01895 446896 social.assistant@ 1st Sunday, 12.00: Cracoe Village Hall BD23 6LQ thebmwclubsouthern.com off the B6265 north of the Skipton bypass. First Wednesday, 12.00: “Old Gits” Loomies Diner 2nd Sunday, 12.00: Cubley Hall Hotel, Mortimer on A32 at West Meon Hut cross roads A272 & A32, Rd, Penistone. S36 9DF Hampshire. 3rd Sunday, 12.00: How Stean Gorge Cafe, Alt Tuesdays, 2000: The Seven Stars, Newark Lofthouse. Pateley Bridge. Lane, Ripley, Surrey, GU23 6DL. Last Saturday, 12.00: Seaways Cafe Bike Shed, Alt Thursdays: The Half Moon, 32 London Road, Fimber Road, Fridaythorpe.YO25 9RX Petersfield, GU31 4BE, just North of Petersfield on Last Sunday, 12.00. (Closes 14.00): Askern Lake the old A3. Café, Askern DN6 0JB. 3rd Wednesday, 12.00: “Old Gits” Loomies Diner Every Wednesday from noon:Squires Biker Café, on A32 at West Meon Hut cross roads A272 & A32, Sherburn-in-Elmet, LS25 5LX (off the B1222). Hampshire. Pop in on the off chance of meeting up with Club 3rd Thursday 20.00: Drusilla’s Inn, Wigbeth, Members!!”
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 53 Diary Of Events: May & June May = June = Weekends = Red Text Diary of Events closing date is the 5th of each month These activities have been arranged as agent for and on behalf of The BMW Club. All organisers are covered by our insurance, provided the event guidelines are followed.
335 621 May Scottish Lunch meet: Log Cabin Hotel, 1 Northern Classic Bike Nights, Bridge House Kirkmichael, PH10 7NA. 12 noon Farm Tearooms, Wray, Lancaster Yorkshire The Village Hall, Cracoe, 12.00 noon. LA2 8QP 6-9pm. Bill Smithson 01539 5 Southern The Cricketers Arms, 232 Chestnut 736454 [email protected] Ave, North Stoneham, Chandlers Ford, Oxford Natter Night 7 pm, Churchill Arms, West SO53 3HN Lavington, SN10 4JB 6 Irish Cork Ride Out. 6.30pm as Where we Yorkshire Lunch Meet, White Monk Tea Room, Meet. DH8 9ST, 12.00 noon. Peter 01904 Irish Limerick meeting 8:00 pm as Where 672883 we Meet. 2 Northern The Briars Hall Hotel as Where we Mercia Natter Night 1930 hrs New Inn. Wolvey Meet. Vera Hunt 01257 464429 Road, Bulkington. CV12 9JF 2-4 Mercia Join the Scottish Section for the Midland Pub Night The Three Kings, Saltersway, Hotel break at Gretna Hall Hotel & Threekingham, Lincs NG34 0AU Start Blacksmiths. To book go direct to 7:30 Vikki Waugh mentioning BMW Club Oxford Natter Night 7 pm, Dashwood Arms, tel;01461 338257 or contact Colin Piddington, HP14 3BH Ainsworth 07799 653789 for further Ulster Club Meeting. 8pm Corr’s Corner info. Western 20.00 Pub Night at the New Inn, 2-4 Scottish Gretna Hall Hotel weekend. See Claines, Worcs WR3 7DH Bob Dunn Around the Compass. – 01384 390344 Come and have a 2-5 Ulster Nethybridge Weekend, Scotland chat and meet your local members 2-5 Western Camping Weekend. Church Farm 7 E. Anglia Three Tunns, Finchingfield. Campsite, Sixpenny Handley SP5 N. East Natter Night, The Travellers Rest, Front 5ND. Joint event with South West, Street, Witton Gilbert, DH7 6TQ. Western and Southern. See Journal / website for info S. East Club Night THE BULL, East Farleigh, ME15 0HD. 8pm. 2-6 Southern Sixpenny Handley Camping Weekend. Church Farm, High Street, Sixpenny Southern “Old Gits” Loomies Diner. Loomies Handley, Nr Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP5 Cafe, West Meon Hut, GU32 1JX 5ND Western 19.30 Pub Night at The Lamb Inn, 3 Midland Annual run through the Lincolnshire Wotton Road, Iron Acton, Bristol. BS37 Wolds, starting from the East Kirkby 9UZ The lamb@Iron Acton.net Chat Aviation Museum. If you don’t want to at this popular venue do the run plenty to see and do. Taxi Western 12.00 Meet at the bike park WEST runs by the Lancaster “Just Jane”. BAY, Bridport Dorset DT6 4EY at 12:00 9:00am onwards on the A155 east of going to a cafe on the harbour Dave Coningby. Contact Bill Rodgers 01526 Holland 01884 829295 834480 8 Mercia Natter Night 1930 hrs The Dog. Henley 4 E. Anglia Cricketers, Fordham Heath. Road, Mappleborough Green, Studley Mercia Barton Marina. Breakfast / Brunch B80 7DR 10.30am as Where we Meet. Midland Pub Night, The Old Reindeer, Main S. East Museum of Army Flying with Shaun. Street, Edingley, Notts NG22 8DE Depart Godstone Duck Pond. 9.30am. Northern Gathering at Settle Market Place S. West Meet at Haldon Grill for breakfast (top 2.00pm. Barry Warner 01617 611702 of Telegraph Hill ) leave at 10.30 and Southern The Half Moon, 32 London Road, ride to Paignton bike Festival (entry Petersfield, GU31 4BE fee) with Peanut – Mark Corben 01626 9 S. East THE GOLDEN CROSS INN, Golden
54 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 Cross, BN27 4AW. 7.30pm. Southern The Seven Stars, Newark Lane, Ripley, Western 10.00 Bob’s ride out . Meet Car park Surrey, GU23 6DL New Inn, Claines. WR3 7DH Bob Dunn Western 11.00 Meet for elevenses at Dick 01384 390344 Lovetts Laurel Court, Cribbs 10 S. East Fish & Chips at Dungeness with Dave. Causeway, Bristol. BS10 7TU. FREE Depart West Malling Town Centre. cuppa, biccy and a chat. 5pm. 14 Mercia Keith Wells run through the Welsh Western 10.00 A ride through the Forest of Borders. Meet at The Bikers Food Stop Dean. Meet at Taurus Crafts, Lydney A442 Quatford, near Bridgnorth WV15 GL15 6BU 10.00 Lunch at Harts Barn 6QJ leaving at 10am Contact Keith Craft Centre GL17 0QD Nick Robin for more information on 07979 525788 01594 837425 Midland Ride in to AJ’s Diner, Nene 11 E. Anglia Ride in to The Secret Nuclear Motorcycles, Leyland Trading Est Bunker. Meet at Rose Café For 10.30 Wellingborough,NN8 1RT Meet 11:00 departure. 11:30. a ride in to this 50’s style café Irish Leinster Ride-out Spa Hotel (near for tea and rideout weather permiting. Lucan) 10.00 am Jim Sweeney 087 Oxford Visit to Shrivenham, Light Weapons 2300736 [email protected] Wing. Maximum 25 people, names to Irish N.W Area Meeting as Where we Meet. Tim Read, 01285 869320. Assemble at McDonalds, Nr A420 at Watchfield Irish Limerick ride-out Pat Mulcahy 087 at 13:00 pm. 2377312 S. East Midweek Run from COOPERS, Mercia Brian Coopers Run to Erddig House, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 3UE. 10.30am. Wrexham. Meet OK Diner A5 WS11 0BN. Runs leaves at 10.00hrs Scottish Natter Nite at Meldrums Hotel, Ceres, Fife KY15 5NA at 7.30 pm: Midland Normans Rideout, M42/A5 services, meet 10:00 to leave at 10:15 Short 15 Midland Pub Night, The Kings Head, Kingsway, ride to café for brunch,then ride to Tealby, Lincs, LN8 3YA destination TBA Southern Drusilla’s Inn, Cranborne Road, Northern Section meeting. St Michael’s on Wimborne Minster BH21 5AD Wyre village Hall. 1pm refreshments 16 Midland Spring National 16th-18th North East available. Peter McCombie 01228 Section 594792. 16-18 All Back to Basics National Rally at Oxford RIDE OUT – Witley Court Demesne Farm, Bellingham, NE48 Worcestershire, English Heritage. 2BS. Graham Walker-07931 710991 Meet at Pear Tree interchange 17 Oxford RIDE OUT – After Brunch at Dashwood Services, OX2 8JZ at 09:00 am for a Arms, Piddington, David and Rosemary 10:00 start. Paul and Sally Lambert, Hicks, 01869 240529. Meet at the pub 07711 965081 for food but be ready to depart at 11:00. S. West Cafe Meet 12.00 noon at Lords Café, S. West Evening Meet Padstow, Meet at Princetown, Dartmoor PL20 6QE 4.00 pm Morrinsons Car Park, followed by a ride out to Lawrence Bodmin, PL31 2ST then scenic route Castle leaving by 2.00 pm. More to Padstow, stroll around around details ring Don Rolling on 01752 556 Padstow before Fish and Chips , or 543. meet at Padstow for 5.30 ring Don Scottish Lunch meet: Bankfoot Inn, Bankfoot, Rabson 01840 212913 Perth PH1 4AB. 12.00 Ulster North West 200 Southern Ace Cafe BMW Bike Day. Ace Corner, 18 E. Anglia Five Ways, Norwich. North Circular Road, Stonebridge, Mercia Tony’s Diner.10.00am. A442 Quatford, London NW10 7UD Kidderminster Road,Bridgnorth, Ulster Meet and Eat. 1pm Kilbroney Forest Shropshire. WV15 6QL Park, Rostrevor Northern North Wales Wanderer 01. Meet at Western 13.30 The Hood Memorial Hall, Legends Cafe, J& S car park, Oakmere Devauden. Bikers have talent. Show 10:00am. Peter Wright 01925 762599. us your talents for crafts art photos Scottish Lunch meet: Buccleuch Arms, Moffat etc. Tables available for display. Sale DG10 9ET. 12.30 of items optional. Western 12.00 Sharpham tea garden, Yorkshire Cubley Hall Hotel, Penistone, 12.00. Sharpham, Street. BA16 9SF Come 12 Scottish Natter nite: Douglas Park Motorrad, and join us for lunch and a chat Dave East Kilbride, G74 3XH Holland 01884829295 13 Irish Cork Ride Out. 6.30pm as Where we Yorkshire How Stean Gorge Café, 12 noon. Meet 20 Irish Cork Ride Out. 6.30pm as Where we Oxford Natter Night 7 pm, Harcourt Arms, Meet Stanton Harcourt, OX29 5RJ Northern Isle of Man Natter Night 7.30pm @ The
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 55 Highwayman, Peel. Harvey Garton 29 Irish Dublin Meeting. 8:00 pm as Where we 01624 625140 Meet. Oxford Natter Night 7 pm, Sun Inn, Coate 30 Midland Bunkhouse Weekend in Derbyshire, Water, Swindon, SN3 6AA. With Graham Parker. See Journal for 21 E. Anglia Lamb and Flag, Welney. details. Mercia Pensioners and Layabouts. 12 noon at N. East Ride out-Fish & Chip Run– Meet at Springslade Lodge. Tearooms Camp Durham Services at 7:30pm. Graham Road, Broadhurst Green, Cannock Walker-07931 710991 Chase. WS12 4PT S. East THE MONUMENT, Whitstable, CT5 Midland Pub Night, The Horseshoe, 2 Overstone 1PH. 7.30pm. Rd Sywell Northants NN6 0AW Start 30-1/6 Oxford Lechlade Camping Weekend. Book 7:30 directly with the Bridge House N. East Natter Night, The Waggon Inn, Higham Campsite 01367 252348 and tell them Dykes, Milbourne, Ponteland, NE20 you are on the BMW Club event. Dave 0DH. Hawkins, 07951 653566 Northern Midweek Run from Kirkby Lonsdale 30-2/6 Southern Camping at Country Inn Midhurst 10.00am. Mike Gibson 01229 582787 31 Oxford RIDE OUT – Part of the Lechlade [email protected] Camping Weekend, Dave Hawkins, S. East Club Night THE BULL, East Farleigh, 07951 653566. Visitors please check ME15 0HD. “Quiz Night”. 8pm. the Oxford Section website for details. Southern “Old Gits” Loomies Diner. Loomies Yorkshire The Biker’s Café, Fridaythorpe, 12 Cafe, West Meon Hut, GU32 1JX noon. Western 12.00 The Log Cabin Moortown Barton 31-2 June Irish Boreen Run-see Compass for full Cross, Knowstone, South Molton, details Devon, EX36 4RZ (Bikers Cafe just off the A361) Highly recommended. Denis Bradbeer 01454 775786 June 22 Southern The Half Moon, 32 London Road, Petersfield, GU31 4BE 1 E. Anglia Cricketers, Fordham Heath. 23-25 Scottish Lochearnhead Log Cabin weekend see Mercia Barton Marina. Breakfast / Brunch Around the Compass 10.30am as Where we Meet 23-26 London French Hotel Weekend. Details will be N. East Ride Out-Borders Run & Meet in the February Journal. with the Scottish Section-Meet at 23-26 S. East Weekend in Honfleur with Chris the Waggon Inn at 10am. Graham & Angela. (Details – Chris 01634 Walker-07931710991 251299). Oxford Ride of Respect from Dalton Barracks, 25 E. Anglia Café Meet, Waterfront Café, Lorraine Abingdon, Oxon. See Royal British Way, Bramford, Ipswich.IP8 4JS. Legion website at http://www. britishlegion.org.uk/news-events/ Northern Choc & Cheese Run. 10:00am Barton calendar-of-events/fundraising/ride- Grange Garden Centre on the A6 just north of Bilsborrow. Run will be of-respect or contact Andy Lawson for demanding on single track roads as details on 01993 212561 much as possible. Phil Cosgrove S. East Brunch at Highgrove Garden Centre, 01995 61266 Staplehurst, TN12 9BT. 11am. Depart S. East Lunch – Hawkhurst Fish Farm, 1pm for Tea & Cakes with Kevin & Hawkhurst, TN18 4RT. Run 2pm. Denise. Scottish Lunch meet: Hopeville Social Club, S. West Ride out Bryan China Clay museum Inverurie AB51 SR. 12.30 Bryan on 01726 833 554 see website 26 Northern Natter night the Harraby Inn, Carlisle for start times 7.30pm. John Bell 01228 535173. Scottish Lunch meet: Log Cabin Hotel, Southern The Cricketers Arms, 232 Chestnut Kirkmichael, PH10 7NA. 12 noon Ave, North Stoneham, Chandlers Ford, Scottish Scottish/North East/Northern lunch SO53 3HN meet: Tibbie Shiels Inn, St. Mary’s Ulster Breakfast Run. 8.30am Stormont Loch, Selkirk TD7 5LH 12.30pm 27 Irish Cork Ride Out. 6.30pm as Where we Southern British Legion-Ride of Respect. Meet Carterton and Brize Norton Southern The Seven Stars, Newark Lane, Ripley, Yorkshire The Village Hall, Cracoe, 12.00 noon. Surrey, GU23 6DL 3 Irish Cork Ride Out. 6.30pm as Where we 28 Mercia Natter Night 19.30 Roman Way Hotel. Meet. Watling Street, Hatherton, Cannock. Irish Limerick meeting 8:00 pm as Where West Midlands WS11 1SH we Meet. Oxford Natter Night 7 pm, Fox and Hounds, Mercia Natter Night 1930 hrs New Inn. Wolvey Theale, RG7 4BE. Road, Bulkington. CV12 9JF
56 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 Midland The Three Kings, Saltersway, Northern Section meeting. St Michael’s on Wyre Threekingham, Lincs.NG34 0AU village Hall noon. Half day event to Oxford Natter Night 7 pm, Dashwood Arms, include Southport Superbike test rides Piddington, HP14 3BH. and refreshments. Peter McCombie Ulster Club Meeting. 8pm Corr’s Corner 01228 594792. Western 20.00 Pub Night at the New Inn, Oxford RIDE OUT – Stowe, National Trust. Claines, Worcs WR3 7DH Bob Dunn Meet at Peartree Services at 10:30. – 01384 390344 Come and have a Steve and Louise Martin, 07590 chat and meet your local members 609695 4 E. Anglia Three Tunns, Finchingfield. S. East Hawkinge WWII Museum & Tea at Mum-in-Laws with Paul. Depart lay-by N. East Natter Night, The Travellers Rest, Front Oakdene Cafe, Wrotham (A20/M26). Street, Witton Gilbert, DH7 6TQ. 9.30am. S. East Club Night THE BULL, East Farleigh, Scottish Lunch meet: Bankfoot Inn, Bankfoot, ME15 0HD. 8pm. Perth PH1 4AB. 12.00 S. West 7.30 Fish and Chips Meet East Looe Southern Rossana’s Pizza Day. TBA. car park. The car park nearest the Harbour. Don Rabson 01840 212913 Ulster Round Ulster Run. 8am Albert Clock, Belfast (packed lunch) Southern “Old Gits” Loomies Diner. Loomies Cafe, West Meon Hut, GU32 1JX Western 13.30 Monthly meeting at The Hood Memorial Hall, Devauden. BBQ- Western 19.30 Pub Night at The Lamb Inn, Bangers, Burgers and Buns provided Wotton Road, Iron Acton, Bristol. BS37 9UZ The lamb@Iron Acton.net Chat Yorkshire Cubley Hall Hotel, Penistone, 12.00 at this popular venue noon. 4-11 E. Anglia D-Day Anniversary Rally, Normandy. 9 E. Anglia BMW club track day, Snetterton. See journal for details 5 Northern Classic Bike Nights, Bridge House Farm Tearooms, Wray, Lancaster LA2 8QP Scottish Natter nite: Douglas Park Motorrad, 6-9pm. Bill Smithson 01539 736454 East Kilbride, G74 3XH [email protected] Sporting Snetterton ‘Ride Friendly’ track day, Oxford Natter Night 7 pm, Churchill Arms, West info from the Sporting Register page Lavington, SN10 4JB on the website or from robertbensley@ btinternet.com £120 Southern The Half Moon, 32 London Road, Petersfield, GU31 4BE 10 Irish Cork Ride Out. 6.30pm as Where we Meet. Yorkshire Lunch Meet, The Bridge Inn, 12.00 noon. Grinton, DL11 6HH. Peter 01904 Oxford Natter Night 7 pm, Harcourt Arms, 672883 Stanton Harcourt, OX29 5RJ 6 Northern The Briars Hall Hotel as Where we Southern The Seven Stars, Newark Lane, Ripley, Meet. Vera Hunt 01257 464429 Surrey, GU23 6DL 6-8 S. West Exmoor Rally at the Blackcock Western 11.00 Meet for elevenses at Dick Inn, Molland, South Molton, North Lovetts Laurel Court, Cribbs Devon EX36 3NW. V and C Register Causeway, Bristol. BS10 7TU. FREE Welcome, more details to follow .- Jim cuppa, biccy and a chat. Isherwood 01769 573 258 11 Mercia Natter Night 1900 hrs Clock Warehouse. 6-8 Western Camping Weekend at Townsend London Road, Shardlow, Derby. DE72 farm, Pembridge, Nr Leominster HR6 2GL 9HB Contact Sue and Colin Ross S. East Midweek Run from COOPERS, 01562820458 Tunbridge Wells, TN2 3UE. 10.30am. 6-8 Yorkshire Camping at the Providence Inn, Scottish Natter nite: Meldrums Hotel, Ceres, Yedingham, Malton, YO17 8SL. Piers Fife KY15 5NA at 7.30 pm: 07866 622196 12 Mercia Natter Night 1930 hrs The Dog. Henley 7 Mercia Shropshire Amble with John Road, Mappleborough Green, Studley Humpherson. Start 0930hrs Tony’s B80 7DR Diner, Quatford, Bridgnorth, Shrops. Midland The Old Reindeer, Main Street, WV15 6QL. Tel John 01922 710 694 Edingley, Notts, NG22 8DE. 8 E. Anglia Chequers Wimbotsham. Northern Gathering at Settle Market Place Irish Leinster Ride-out Spa Hotel (near 2.00pm. Barry Warner 01617 611702 Lucan) 10.00 am Jim Sweeney 087 13 S. East THE GOLDEN CROSS INN, Golden 2300736 email: [email protected] Cross, BN27 4AW. 7.30pm. Irish N.W Area Meeting as Where we Meet. 12-15 Vintage Welsh Rally-Thursday 12th June- Irish Limerick ride-out Pat Mulcahy 087 Sunday 15th June 2014. 2377312 13-16 Southern Vintage Register-Welsh Camping N. East Ride Out-Scottish Borders-Meet at the Weekend To Be Confirmed Waggon Inn at 10am. Mick Taylor-0191 14 S. East “Display Your Bike” with Alan & Linda 2668652 – RAF Northolt. (Details Linda 01227
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 57 366827). Wimborne Minster BH21 5AD Western 14.00 Mystery Ride out with Richard. Southern The Half Moon, 32 London Road, Meet at Severn View Services BS35 Petersfield, GU31 4BE 4BH. Richard Frost 01275 472797 20-22 Northern Fisherground Campsite, Fellside [email protected]. Cottage, Eskdale, Cumbria CA19 14-21 Oxford La Rochelle Trip, Dave and Rosemary 1TF. Paul Stewart 01772 679198 Hicks, 01869 240529 [email protected] 15 E. Anglia Five Ways, Norwich. 20-22 S. West Camping Weekend Cornwal Globe Vale Mercia Tony’s Diner.10.00am. A442 Quatford, Holiday Park, Radnor, Nr. Redruth, Kidderminster Road,Bridgnorth, Cornwall, TR16 4BH. Paul Briers Tel. Shropshire. WV15 6QL 07968 845 Midland Rideout to Wymondom Windmill. Meet 20-22 Scottish Longest Day weekend in Ullapool. See Colsterworth Services 9:30 leave Around the Compass for details. 10:00 A gentle ride through the lanes 20-23 Southern New Forrest Camping Little New Park, to the windmill. Lyndhurst Road Brockenhurst SO42 S. East Narrow Boat Festival, Stoke Bruerne 7QH with Chris. Depart Thurrock Serv. 21 S. East BBQ at Matty’s, Paddock Wood, TN12 (Petrol) 9am. 6QQ from 4pm. (Book by 04/06). Scottish Lunch meet, talk & demonstration by 21-23 N. East Border Reivers Weekend-Led as usual Traffic Officer: Buccleuch Arms, Moffat by Peter Cullen. Please keep a watch DG10 9ET. 12 noon in The Journal and section website for Yorkshire How Stean Gorge Café, 12 noon. more Information and booking details. 16 Southern The Cricketers Arms, 232 Chestnut 21-28 Western Continental Rally at Le Vieux Ave, North Stoneham, Chandlers Ford, Monastere, Charente Maritime, SO53 3HN France. www.levieuxmonastere.com 17 Irish Cork Ride Out. 6.30pm as Where we All Club members Welcome. For more Meet. info and reservations see section website or contact Colin Ross on Northern Isle of Man Natter Night 7.30pm @ The 01562 820458 Highwayman, Peel. Harvey Garton 01624 625140 22 E. Anglia Café meet, Posh Pigs, unit 17, Ellough Industrial Estate, Beccles. NR34 7TD. Oxford Natter Night 7 pm, Sun Inn, Coate Water, Swindon, SN3 6AA London Visit to the Wychwood Brewery , Witney, Oxfordshire. Numbers at least 18 E. Anglia Lamb and Flag, Welney 1 month in advance to book places Mercia Pensioners and Layabouts. 12 noon at on the tours (12:00, 12:30, 14:30 & Springslade Lodge. Tearooms Camp 15:00hrs ). Leaving Beaconsfield at Road, Broadhurst Green, Cannock 09;30 hrs. Chase. WS12 4PT Mercia Fish & Chip Run to the East Coast.Run Midland The Horseshoe (Sywell) 2 Overstone organiser , Colin Ainsworth. Meet at Rd Sywell Northamptonshire NN6 Donington Services M1 Jct 23a. Leave 0AW Services at 10am contact Colin 07799 N. East Summer Buffet at the Waggon Inn, 653789 Higham Dykes, Milbourne, Ponteland, Midland Bourne Classic Car & motorcycle NE20 0DH. show. Bourne town Centre. All classic Northern Midweek Run from Kirkby Lonsdale motorcycles requested. Contact Bill 10.00am. Mike Gibson 01229 582787 Rodgers 01526 834480. [email protected] Northern North Wales Wanderer 02. Meet at S. East Club Night THE BULL, East Farleigh, Legends Cafe, J& S car park, Oakmere ME15 0HD. “Fly the Flag”. 8pm. 10:00am. Peter Wright 01925 762599. S. West Fish and Chips 7.30 Budleigh Salterdon Scottish Lunch meet: Hopeville Social Club, sea front Helen Beer on 07866953940 Inverurie AB51 SR. 12.30 £10.00 for furthest travelled Western 12.00 Transporter Bridge, Newport Southern “Old Gits” Loomies Diner. Loomies Meet at the East side NP19 0RB Cafe, West Meon Hut, GU32 1JX Alison 0117 9657757 Southern Fish & Chips Meet-Mother Kelly’s, 22-29 Ulster Round Ireland. Bill Sheldon, Marie Paulsgrove, PO6 4PY Curie Western 10.30 Abbotsbury Swannery New 24 Irish Cork Ride Out. 6.30pm as Where we Barn Rd, Abbotsbury, Dorset DT3 4JG Meet. http://www.abbotsbury-tourism.co.uk/ Midland Ride in To The Super Sausage, A5 swannery/index.htm meet in café. Watling Street, Pottersbury, NN12 Brian Harrison 01594 530264 7QD. Meet 11:30 for more tea and tyre 19 Midland The King’s Head, Kingsway, Tealby, kicking. Lincs LN8 3YA, United Kingdom Southern The Seven Stars + Longest Day Meal, Southern Drusilla’s Inn, Cranborne Road, Newark Lane, Ripley, Surrey, GU23
58 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 6DL Billinghay, Lincs LN4 4DD. Keith or 25 Mercia Natter Night 1930hrs Roman Way Catherine. Phone: 01226 763883 Hotel. Watling Street, Hatherton, 28 Western 12.00 Honey Cafe Brecon, Brecon Cannock. West Midlands. WS11 1SH Beacons National Park LD3 0LH, N. East Ride Out-Lucky Few Run-To the Dales. Wales. Meet at Durham Services at 10am. Yorkshire The Biker’s Café, Fridaythorpe, 12 Paul Taylor-07778 591823 noon. Oxford Natter Night 7 pm, Fox and Hounds, 29 Midland Swaton Show. Great one day Theale, RG7 4BE agricultural show. Finals of the “World Egg Throwing Contest” Contact Bill Southern Bob’s Mystery Run. To be Confirmed. Rodgers 01526 834480 26 Irish Dublin Meeting. 8:00 pm as Where we S. East Lunch – Coastguards Tea Room, Meet. Fairlight, TN35 4AB. Run 2pm. Midland Garda Prague and Beyond. Midland S. West Ride out to Swanage with peanut meet Section Tour Exeter Services leave at 11.30. Ring 27 N. East Ride Out-Fish & Chip Run-Meet at Mark Corben 01626 335 621 Durham Services at 7:30pm. Phil 30 Northern Natter night the Harraby Inn, Carlisle Oughtred-01207 544851 7.30pm. John Bell 01228 535173. S. East THE KINGS ARMS, Biggin Hill, BR2 Oxford Cassington Bike night with BMW 6DU. 7.30pm. Club Oxford Section stand. Help on 27-29 Scottish Royal Deeside weekend. See Around the stand and marshalling will be the Compass for details. appreciated, contact John Broad, 27-29 Yorkshire Camping at the Coach and Horses, 01869 324008 for further details. Around The Compass Please send Around The Compass changes to [email protected] with “Compass” as the subject 2 - 5 May. Three Section Camping Weekend: close and hotels, chalets, within easy walking Southwest, Western and Southern sections have distance see details on Scottish section website. got together and put on this weekend at Church 23 - 26 May. London Section French Hotel Farm Camping and Holiday Park, Sixpenny Weekend: Hotel details will be published in the Handley, Salisbury SP5 5ND. For more details ring February Journal John or Sally Robinson on 01395 597725 23 – 26 May. South East Section French Hotel 2 - 5 May. Ulster Section Scottish Weekend: Nethybridge Hotel, Inverness-shire. Details in Weekend: Campanile Hotel, 823 rue Saint Clair, advert in jornal. 14600 Honfleur or a hotel of your choice. For further details contact Chris Coffill – cjcoffill@aol. 16 - 18 May. National Rally: ‘Back to Basics’ com (01634 251299). Camping Weekend at Bellingham, Northumberland hosted by the North East Section. More details to 30 May - 1 June. Oxford Section Lechlade follow shortly. Camping Weekend: Book directly with the Bridge House Campsite 01367 252348 and tell them you 23 – 25 May. Scottish Section Lochearnhead are at the BMW Club event. Dave Hawkins, 07951 Log Cabin Bunkhouse weekend: The basic 653566 accommodation is more than made up for by the superb location and good company around the 30 May - 2 June. Midland section Camping and log fire in the old railway station. Cabins have Bunkhouse Weekend: Barn Farm, Churchover. fan heaters and sleeping platforms (sleeping Derbyshire. See advert in Journal for details. mattress is definitely recommended). Bedding 30 May - 2 June. Southern Section: Camping at and towels are NOT provided.Good toilet/shower Country Inn Midhurst block. If you prefer to camp an area is available. Cost: £28 per person bed (or camping)/breakfast/ 31 May - 2 June. Irish Section Boreen: In N. dinner for the weekend. Booking is essential for Ireland, 2 nights B&B, 1 evening meal €140. catering and accommodation allocation purposes. Enquiries/bookings to: Elaine Simpson Tel: To book please contact Judy or Jim by Sunday 00353 (0) 830043775 email: [email protected] all 18th May: tel.no. 01592 874592 /email: social@ payments to: BMW Club Irish Section - payments thebmwclubscottish.com. There is a B&B very can be made via paypal contact Elaine for details
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 59 4 - 11 June. East Anglia Section 70th D-Day for all attending. Free tea & coffee all weekend.. Anniversary commemoration in Normandy: This is a superb location with wonderful quiet Accommodation and pitches are now available for roads to ride and a good walking area. Why not reservation and a 25% deposit is required. Booking make a holiday of it and attend the Ballater, Royal can be made by contacting the site directly on Deeside weekend 27th – 29th June as well? See 0033-231-9714451 and speak to Marjolaieme Scottish Section website for more information or who speaks English or use http://www.camping- contact: Judy tel. 01592 874592 / email: social@ cote-de-nacre.com/accueil-en.htm. The site thebmwclubscottish.com. will fill up quickly so book early to secure your 20 - 22 June. South West Section Mid Summer accommodation or pitch. Please mention you are Rally: Camping Weekend at Cornwall Globe Vale with the “BMW Motorcycle Club” . Let me know Holiday Park, Radnor, Nr. Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 numbers and names in your party after booking 4BH. Paul Briers Tel. 07968 845 Price £14.00 per either on the forum or email markhandley2@ night for 2, including hook up , plus £3.00 each for yahoo.com or on 01354-740908 before 9pm extra person. please. All sections welcome. 20 - 23 June. Southern Section: New Forrest 6 - 8 June. South West Section Exmoor Rally: Camping Little New Park, Lyndhurst Road All members are invited to the Exmoor Rally.The Brockenhurst SO42 7QH Blackcock Inn, Molland, South Molton, North Devon, EX36 3NW 01769 550297. Full details and 21 - 23 June. North East Section Reivers prices on website. V and C register welcome. Ring Weekend: This year the Reivers will explore the Jim Isherwood 01769 573258 for more info. back roads of Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. Led by Peter Cullen there will be an 6 - 8 June. Western Section: Black & White advert in The Journal with booking details. Camping Weekend at Townsend Farm Touring and Camping Park, Pembridge, Nr Leominster. 21 - 28 June. Western Section: Continental Rally HR6 9HB 5* site Section BBQ on Saturday, £5.50 at Le Vieux Monastere, Charente Maritime, France. pppn for a small tent, Caravans and Motor Homes www.levieuxmonastere.com All Club members welcome, Numbers required. All Club Members welcome, For more info and reservations see welcome. Contact Sue & Colin Ross - 01562 section website or contact Colin Ross on 01562 820458 for info and bookings. 820458 6 - 8 June. Yorkshire Section Camping 26 June - 13 July. Midland Section: Trip to Weekend: At the Providence Inn, Yedingham, Garda, Garmisch and Prague. See www.saf-site. Malton, YO17 8SL. Organiser PiersK yorkshire. com for details. [email protected] Phone: 07866 622 196. A 27 – 29 June. Scottish Section Royal Deeside pleasant camping site for tents or touring caravans weekend: At Ballater Caravan Park. The pretty and motor homes. Situated immediately behind conservation town of Ballater is located in the this pleasant traditional pub in the heart of this heart of beautiful Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire small village. The pub offers good quality food and is the principal town of the eastern half of the and drink and we believe that breakfasts will be Cairngorms National Park. It is an ideal base for available but this is to be confirmed. There are no exploring this beautiful part of Scotland and it is shower facilities on site but the pub conveniences a great favourite of both walkers and cyclists. An are open and available day and night. Great roads area will be set aside for the club. If you don’t for riding. PiersK to arrange a ride-out if there’s camp there are plenty of hotels and B&Bs nearby. popular demand. Watch out for up-dates on this The section trailer and marquee will be there as event. a central meeting place for all attending. Free 14 - 21 June. Oxford Section La Rochelle Trip: tea & coffee available all weekend. See Scottish Lots of interesting places to visit on the way down Section website for more information or contact: including the submarine pens. For more details Judy on tel. 01592 874592 / email: social@ contact Dave & Rosemary Hicks on 01869 240529 thebmwclubscottish.com. 20 – 22 June. Scottish Section Longest Day 27 - 29 June. Yorkshire Section Camping At The Coach and Horses, Billinghay, weekend in Ullapool: Broomfield Campsite is Weekend: on the banks of scenic Loch Broom. No booking Lincs, LN4 4DD. Organisers are Keith and required for camping. An area will be set aside Catherine O’Mahoney. Phone: 01226 763 883. for the club. If you don’t camp there are plenty of This is a popular site with our Yorkshire Members. hotels and B&Bs nearby. The section trailer and Further details to follow. marquee will be there as a central meeting place 4 - 6 July. Irish Section Camping Weekend:
60 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 River Valley Camping, Redcross, Co.Wicklow. Fife, KY3 9HN or pay by PayPal to treasurer@ See advert in journal. Enquiries/bookings to: bmwclubuk.net Elaine Simpson Tel: 00353 (0) 830043775 email: 22 – 25 August. Scottish Section Host the 2014 [email protected] all payments to: BMW Club National at Kelso: Springwood Park, Kelso. TD5 Irish Section - payments can be made via paypal 8LS contact Elaine for details 5 - 7 September. Midland Section Camping 4 - 6 July. South West Section Summer Rally: Weekend: At Hardhurst Farm, Peak District. See Tiverton Rugby Club, EX16 6SG to include Fish advert in Journal or ring Steve on 07770-827574 and Chip Supper. Ring Chris Crocker on 01884 for more details. 252 759 5 - 7 September. South West Section Tavistock 4 - 6 July. Western Section: Camping Weekend at Rally: At Harford Bridge Holiday Park, Peter Castle Brake Holiday Park, Woodbury, Nr Exeter, Tavy, Tavistock, PL19 9LS. Bar Meals near by and Devon, EX5 1HA. www.castlebrake.co.uk £10.00 optional Pasty Supper on Friday Night. Dartmoor a night for a grass pitch with electric (includes tent ride out on the Saturday - Debbie and Phil Sampson or motorhome or caravan with awning, (two people on 01726 616 42 Mob. 07850 983 144 & vehicle) Contact Cameron Wills 0781 4487056 see section web site for further details 9 - 19 September. Oxford Section trip to Greece: Touring is guided by a very knowledgable classical 18 - 20 July. Yorkshire Section Camping scholar who is also a member of the Oxford Weekend: At Brookside Camping and Caravan Section. For details, including various methods of Park, Burton-upon-Stather, DN15 9DH. Dennis how to get there, contact Steve Moxey on 07771 Askwith has kindly organised another visit to this 663915 well run quality venue. Contact him on 01924 824 088 or check out The Journal later for details. 12 – 14 September. Scottish Section are joined by the North East Section for the 2nd Borders 25 - 27 July. Midland Section Camping and Camping weekend: At the Caravan and Camping Caravan Weekend: Basic site in Leominster. See Club site in Moffat: An excellent site a short walk advert in Journal or contact Norman on 07950- from the centre of the busy Borders town of Moffat. 596799 for more details. Good riding roads and many attractions in the 25 - 27 July. South West Section Aberdare Park area. Marquee and trailer will be there as a central Races: Camping Weekend to see the Aberdare meeting place. Free tea and coffee available all Races at Dare Valley Country Park, Aberdare weekend. If you don’t fancy camping why not join us Rhonnda Cynon Taf (01685) 874672. Camping and stay at the Buccleuch Arms Hotel Tel no.01683 is £10.00 per pitch up to 2 persons. All facilities 220003 or Buchan Guest House Tel. Chris on are on site. Essential to book through Robin on 01683 220378 both Club members. Camping must 07791798704. Campsite sat nav is: CF44 7RG be booked please contact: Judy tel.01592 874592 or email: [email protected]. 8 - 10 August. South West Section Slimbridge Rally: At Tudor Caravan Park, Slimbridge, GL1 12 - 14 September. Western Section: Camping 7BP. Ring Phil and Debbie Sampson on 01726 Weekend at Greenway Farm Caravan and 61642 or 07850 983 144 Camping Park, Drybrook, Glos GL17 9HW 5* site, section BBQ on Saturday, Caravans and 9 - 10 August. Scottish Section 3rd Rathad: Taking place in Argyll on Saturday and the Motorhomes welcome. Pre Booking required £6.00 Trossachs on Sunday. Camping at the Glenloin pppn. All club members welcome. Contact Colin & House Campsite, Arrochar on the A83 at £5 per Sue Ross 01562 820458 night. Please book directly with Vivian McTavish 12 - 14 September. Yorkshire Section Camping tel. No. 07810194259 and mention the BMW Club. Weekend: At Serenity Camping and Caravan There are various B&B, Hotels and eating places Park, Hinderwell, Nr. Whitby, TS13 5JH. Organiser in the village. Both days will include a forest drive PiersK [email protected] Phone: and stunning coastal scenery. Numbers are limited 07866 622 196. A popular venue with a great pub to 20 bikes. A commemorative glass will be given just opposite the entrance to the site that serves to all participants taking part in both days. Please good food and drink. There are easy walks to the contact Nigel on nigel.macdonald4@btinternet. lovely Runswick bay or up the coast to Staithes. com to ensure a place. Deposit of £5 per person Alternatively ride down to the historic port of refundable to those who complete both days. Whitby or take the bus (which stops opposite the Either send a cheque payable to the BMW Club site) if you fancy a drink or two in the town’s many to Judy Lepley, 7 Landale Gardens, Burntisland, watering holes!!
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 61 13 - 20 September. Southern Section: French Plas Menai, North Wales. A repeat of last year’s Camping & Gites with Tim & Sarah Austin. La Trois excellent time plus the chance to try sailing. For Maisons, Villamblard, Nr.Peregueux, Dordogne, more information or to book your place email 24140, France Rosemary Hicks [email protected] or 18 – 22 September. South East Section Camping Geoff Clough [email protected] Weekend: Rother Valley, Northiam, East Sussex. 11 - 12 October. London Section English Pre-booking essential as spaces limited. For Country Hotel Weekend: In Norfolk to take in The further details and booking contact John Burton – Classic Racing Motercycle Club Race of the Year [email protected] (01323 841498). at Snetterton. Details of the Hotel will be published 19 - 21 September. East Anglia Section camping in the March Journal event: Fakenham Racecourse (Horses) http:// 17 -19 October. Irish Section N W Hotel www.fakenhamracecourse.co.uk/ Note! There’s Weekend: Leenane, Euro 99 per person 2 nights no horse races this weekend! This is a new venue B&B & 2 evening meals. Enquiries/bookings to: for us but popular with several motorcycle clubs. Elaine Simpson Tel: 00353 (0) 830043775 email: The camping field is nice and flat, showers / toilets [email protected] all payments to: BMW Club warm and clean, friendly bar serving breakfasts, Irish Section - payments can be made via paypal lunches, & evening meals, entertainment to be contact Elaine for details arranged, all within a few miles of our glorious 17 - 19 October. Northern Section Hotel North Norfolk coast. Accommodation of camping Weekend: In the Northumbria National Park (£6 pp per night); caravans and motorhomes (£15 based at The Pheasant Inn, Kielder Water (www. per night, elec hook-up £2.50); and limited rooms thepheasantinn.com). A grand biking weekend available at £17 pp per night NB there are only 3 based in the wilds of Northumbria (not the available. No advance booking or pre payment cheapest but lovely accommodation in a superb for camping. Please book directly with the site & area). Prices... 2 nights B&B in a twin/double mention the “BMW Club Weekend”. Contact for room - sharing £95pp, single occupancy £130, for more info Mark 01354 740908 but not after 9pm the weekend. Deposit £35 per person. A full day please. out on the bikes on the Saturday followed on your 19 - 21 September. Irish Section Thatch Rally: return to the Pheasant Inn, by a roaring fire, good With the Ulster Section on Lusty Beg Island, Co food, beer and conviviality can’t be bad! If you wish Fermanagh. 2 nights B+B and 1 evening meal to join your friends in the Northern Section just €110.00 per person. Enquiries/bookings to: send your deposit (by cheque payable to Robert Elaine Simpson Tel: 00353 (0) 830043775 email: Crawley) to Bob Crawley at 3 Station Road, Kelso, [email protected] all payments to: BMW Club Scottish Borders, TD5 8DQ. Further details 01573 Irish Section - payments can be made via paypal 223203. contact Elaine for details 31 Oct to 2 Nov. South West Section Hippo 19 - 22 September. Yorkshire Section Hotel Rally: Colliford Tavern, Colliford Lake, St Neot, Weekend: Chateau Le Mont Epinguet, Brix, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 6PZ. Ring Sally Robinson Normandy, France. Contact: Piers. yorkshire. on 01395 597 725 and to book ring Robin Wale on [email protected]. 07866 622 196. 077791 798 704 26 – 28 September. Scottish Section Glencoe 21 - 23 November. Western Section Hotel Gathering: Invercoe campsite, Glencoe, Argyll, weekend: The Seabank Hotel, West Drive, PH49 4HP. An excellent campsite situated on Porthcawl CF36 3LU 2 nights Bed, Breakfast the shores of Loch Leven with spectacular views & Evening Meal including entertainment both .Area set aside for our club. Hobbit Houses, static nights, £72.50 per person for the weekend (based caravans and chalets available for hire. For details on 2 sharing). The Seabank Hotel stands as an of site facilities call Invercoe Campsite 01855 historic landmark on the seafront in Porthcawl 811210 or www.invercoe.co.uk. Mention you will with captivating views across the Bristol Channel be attending the BMW Event when enquiring. The to Somerset & Devon and also very close to the marquee will not be there so please take your own town centre. A coach has been arranged for a cooking stoves to use in the brick gazebo. Many daytrip to Cardiff in addition to a guided walk, B&Bs and hotels in the area details on Scottish rideout and grand raffle. Booking essential, early Section website. Contact: Judy tel.01592 874592 booking advisable. Contact: Denis Bradbeer or email: [email protected]. [email protected] 01454 775786 for 3 -6 October. Oxford Section: Weekend at booking form. 62 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 Section and Register News Please send all Section News entries and contact detail changes to Section News (see page 3 for details)-not to the Editor please. East Anglia Section Irish Section I have been asked to add the Chequers pub,one March has been a very quiet month for our section, of our occasional meeting places in as a regular however, it’s getting a lot warmer now and we are meeting as it has become a popular Sunday meet. looking forward to a busy year ahead. By the time I am only to happy to add a venue that is proving you read this we will have had our first Leinster run popular. The Chequers Pub at Wimbotsham will out and our Pontoon Bridge Hotel overnight , in be on the 2nd Sunday of the month along with the conjunction with the Dublin MC Touring club. This already arranged meetings apart from the AE AGM year we are trying to organise runs that will assist and the Xmas lunch. our country members to participate by joining us en The meetings are still having new members route, or meeting us at our stated destination. I’m coming along which is really great and of course its sure this will be welcomed by some of our members really great to meet you all. that feel a little left out, due to their residence being far from the capital. Let’s hope it is supported. I am starting to get offers to help out on our monthly runs, and this is very welcomed. In fact Sean O’Brian and Tony Glaholm are leading our run on the 11th of May, details will be emailed to you. News from the south via Liam Quinlan: We wish to sympathise with Jim and Patricia Sweeney on the death of Patricia’s Mum. The weather is gradually improving and more bikes are starting to appear on our roads. A group of 6 went to Wales for St. Patrick’s weekend and a good time I’m told was had by all. They also informed me that they checked that the coast is clear for the annual tour of the Flying Coal House Fort Column to Wales on the May bank holiday. It is fully booked out and unfortunately we had to refuse people as there is only limited spaces available On Sunday we had a ride from The Rose Café in at the hotel. Once again well done to a number of Widford to the Coal House Fort in East Tilbury. This our members who are volunteering their time to was the first open day for the Fort after the winter Blood Bike South. It is not up and running yet but closure and was an invitation to motor cycles of all it will not be long before it will be. A lot of the lads makes, which attracted about one hundred and fifty have done most of their training at this stage. Our bikes at any one time. The bikes are parked inside Tuesday night runs will be starting on April 8th and the Fort itself and not in the car park as you would only Club members can take part on the runs due to normally have to do. Some of us explored the Fort Insurance requirements. We do not make the rules. with the free guided tour whilst others went to the Tadhg Barry and Conor O’Leary will be the lads café and the museum and viewed the assortment of taking out the runs. bikes, trikes and military trucks on display. News from North West area is that they are My Thanks to Mike on his new bike for being the changing their venue for their meetings from April, tail ender and to Dik for helping on the drop off. but still meeting up on 2nd Sunday of the month Mike has a write up of his bike and should be in the and hoping to hook up with members from other journal this month. areas also, so if you would like to meet up with During May we have the ride to the secret nuclear them contact Pat Munnelly Tel: 086 338 3499 email: underground bunker on the 11th. If you fancy [email protected]. viewing the latest adventure biking and camping gear and a bacon roll for good measure why not go Remember, there are still a few places on the to The Adventure Bike Shop on the 25th. Boreen run, and in case anyone thinks it may be a little too rough for their bikes, fear not, there will be Peter Dutton an alternative route when necessary. See Diary of 07950631735 Events and Around the Compass in the journal for [email protected] full details. The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 63 Thats about all for now, let’s hope we get another great Summer and enjoy our bikes even more than Mercia Section ever. The annual bowling with Vi & Derek was again Slan, well supported. We had 23 members bowling. Top Jim Sweeney 0872300736 [email protected]
Chris Wright 00353 83 0032400 [email protected] London Section Once again I have left this until the last moment The ten-pin bowling party before the submission deadline, for articles, expires and so I apologize, in advance, for any speling misstakes in the following text. (This retarded ( scorer was Ian Scott, at one point seen praying retired) business is far more time consuming than I on all fours, or at least we think he was praying? could ever have imagined ) Maybe it’s a good job his lane was facing Mecca? A group of us had a most enjoyable lunch on Apologies to Sue Slack, I know you were trying Mersea Island on the occasion of the March Ride- to protect your record of always being the lowest out and we were joined by Adrian Fernandez for his score? Unfortunately, you lost the crown Sue. first time out with us. Adrian – I understand that you Better if I don’t say who took it? After the bowling enjoyed the run and so I hope we will see more of we moved on to the importance of food! What is it you in the months to come. with restaurants, they all appear to be completely I was a little disappointed, on the day, in that when incapable of dealing with a group. Next time folks speaking to the Lady at The Company Shed, I was we’ll go in as a group, sit together and order food told that due to an exceptionally high tide expected independently, should save lots of confusion too. on the day, we would need to “be across” by 1150 As for the food, I think most got what they’d pre – hrs as the Causeway would be impassable. With ordered? military precision we arrived at 1150 hrs only to find a Repton Bring and buy started off very quietly. I water level that appeared to be about a meter below suspect it was a combination of the clocks being put the Road surface ; on leaving at 1345 hrs (ish) the forward and Mother’s Day? Oops! Looks as though water level was still not over the Causeway ! No fun my forward planning missed the fact the two days in that but poor Peter Ball had to be abandoned, on clashed, must try and do better next year? Lorraine the Island, due the electrics on his Randy Mamola and Charles arrived nice and early so thankfully Rep. completely dieing ; I am not sure at time of the first of the baps / cobs were ready the moment writing what the cause was ( certainly not water members started arriving. Good choice of either ingress ) but I gather Carole Nash Insurance got bacon or tasty sausage cobs, with fried onions to him and his bike home at around 1900 hrs. BMW add if required. Hahaha! Food again there’s no Electrics again !! wonder my suit appears to be continually shrinking At time of writing I have only four rooms left as it hangs in the wardrobe? As you’d expect, the available for Roune, in May, with two more Section Section’s bring and buy was the place to get just Members (Gary and Duncan) threatening to come about everything? Graham Parker from the Midland although not yet confirmed. Any rooms not taken Section decided to be cunning and came on the up by the beginning of May will be cancelled so if bike to avoid buying anything?? Bad luck Graham, you are interested please get in touch as soon as we found stuff you could get in your pockets! possible. What a great day here for meeting old Finally, we still have no volunteers for the Post of acquaintances, really nice to see Phil and Dinah Section Web Master – there must be someone out there who could take this on otherwise I will have Kingston, popped in fresh from a hotel weekend to do it and that would mean even more speling and still warm? Celebrating 50 years of married life misstakes. ( and brackets )) together! Congratulations both and special thanks Go carefully to the lovely Dinah for helping us run the raffle! Also here today was a host of members we welcome, Peter Jones Geoff Norman who must have been in the BMW 07710 887958 Club longer than most I’ve ever met. Hello also [email protected] to Ken Jones from Stoke, Clive Osbourne from
64 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 Rugeley, Trevor stones from Bakewell, John Beer end of the day we had 6 new members and I was and Theresa, Dave and Jan Harvey and so many the proud owner of a BMW club umbrella and a more it would make this list look like a telephone ripper wallet from the regalia and merchandise we directory. My apologies if I missed anyone out for were selling. the first time but a warm welcome to you all. The 19th March saw 16 people dining at The .I must give you a reminder here of runs coming Horsehoe in Sywell. Birthday Boy Steve Constable up soon. On the 11th. May, Brian Cooper is leading supplied chocolate cake for all that was there, and a run to Erddig House near Wrexham. Meet at the very nice it was too. His age, suffice to say, mid to OK Diner on the A5. Post Code is - WS11 0BN or late fifities both in age and the year he was born. phone Brian for more information on 01785 713565 Sunday the 23rd March, 13 bikes turned up for This run leaves the OK Diner at 10am. the back road ride to Bourton. Many thanks for the In addition Keith Wells has kindly offered to do his Oxford contingent for their support. 13 bikes left well-supported run to the Welsh Borders. Meet at Jack Hills and thanks to Mike and Sylvia Delacoe the Bikers Food Stop and be prepared to leave here for being ‘tail end charlies’. Although a chilly day at 10am you can contact Keith on 07979 525788 the rain did not show and the sun was bright. The for more information journey to Wellsborne was mainly on back roads And final reminder is the run to the coast for Fish with some being more ‘back’ than anticipated, after & Chips on Sunday 22nd. June. We meet at the missing a turning and everyone doing a ‘U’ turn we Donington Services M1 Junction 23a. Leaving here turned down one road that was a farm track good at 10am with a comfort stop mid-way. Contact Colin for the GSs but not so good for the RTs and GTs Ainsworth for more information on 07799 653789 and one bike was less than a week old. Once at Wellsbourne we again took refreshments and met Colin Ainsworth 2 more bikes with 4 people. It was then onward 07799 653789 to Bourton on the Water. Mainly on minor roads [email protected] through Stratford on Avon. When we reached the Twitter – AinsworthColin@BMWClubMercia other side we did not see much traffic, we hit one road with passing spaces only and this was sign Midland Section posted to ‘Ford’, at this stage after the farm track I was hoping this was a village and not an actual ford. Well, the so called ‘riding season’ should be well Some roads seemed wet and all the bikes ended up under way by the time you read this and I should in a sorry muddy state. We all arrived in Bourton. have done 2 rideouts but more of that later. From here we all broke up and parking was limited Firstly our busy month started with an overnight and I did not see anybody. Many thanks for all to stop in a hotel in the village of Sibson, Warwickshire. turned up. This was for the lucky people going to Garda in June/ April 3rd was the first of the Midweek ride-ins. July, to get to know each other. People started to 8 bikes turned up at Jack Hills Cafe for a tea and arrive at lunchtime and a few beverages were drunk talk session, 6 bikes then went on a back road ride during the afternoon and the chatter got louder as through 4 counties, Northants, Bucks, Beds and people got to know each other. It was then off for Herts to end up at The National Trust Estate at a freshen up or sleep before dinner, then down for Ashridge. This was after passing through a number a lovely 3 course dinner, by the end of the dinner of small picturesque villages. The cafe there everyone was well aquainted with whom they were supplied us with pasties or scones and cakes as sharing with on the trip. light refreshment , a nice way to end the ride. Thank The next morning was down to breakfast you to all those that turned up, it makes it all worth then across the country for the Bring and Buy at while. Barnsdale Gardens. I was a bit late arriving and was That’s the past, now looking ahead, starting with concerned about space. I need not have worried as Bill Rodgers ride through the Lincolnshire Wolds when we arrived Ben the Tea Rooms manager had on Saturday 3rd May. On the 11th May there is it all organised. It was a lovely sunny day and we Normans ride out, it is a mystery ride out, depending had approx 60 people turn up and believe there on weather conditions, the 14th sees another were some bargains to be had. That was the last midweek ride from AJ Diner in Wellingborough. Barnsdale visit until September. I would like to thank Finally the 30th is the first of the camping weekends all those of you that have supported this new venue in Derbyshire, the details of this are in the about in over the last 6 months. the journal. The following weekend saw the launch of the new Looking ahead to 26th July there is a camping BMW Models and Teresa and I along with Janet and weekend with Norman at Barons Cross near John Winn at Wollastons in Northampton singing the Leominster, again see advert in the journal for praises of the BMW club and the Midland Section, details. all in all a good day at Wollastons, they supplied I think that about covers everything that has gone bacon rolls, tea and coffee free all day long, at the on this last month.
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 65 ‘Na shledanou’ and safe riding. Wednesday 21st at 10.00am. The run out to Rhys and Wulla Jones’ Mountain Jim Beach Retreat scheduled for Sunday the 6th July has had 07415 683120 to be cancelled for the moment, due to unforeseen [email protected] family circumstances. Lynn tells me she really enjoyed her day at Northern Section Southport Superbikes when they had their launch in March and managed to sign up 3 new members. Hi once more to all of you. Firstly I’d like to apologise That’s all for now folks, please keep well, keep to all Northern section members and associates. smiling and keep riding .!!! I am afraid to say that for the last few months my Peter health has been taking me on a wild roller coaster, Peter McCombie ouch!! which has meant I haven’t been on the ball [email protected] with my social secretary duties. It’s taken a few unscheduled hospital visits but I’m hoping that I’m now on the mend and can give you all my full North East Section attention. I hope you were able to get your bikes out throughout April, with much joy. Firstly we pay tribute to our friend John (Aldy) The 1st of May will see the second of Bill Alderson who passed away on 12th March 2014. He Smithson’s Classic Bike Nights at the Bridge House was a much loved and respected motorcyclist who Farm Tearooms, Wray, Lancaster, from 6pm to 9pm. will be sadly missed by us all and our sympathies On Sunday the 4th Phil Cosgrove will be leading are passed on to his friends and family at this time. out his famous annual Choc & Cheese run, There has been an omission in the diary in the departing 10am, from Barton Range Garden Centre form of John Matthew’s ride out which is taking on the A6 just north of Bilsborrow. The run will be place on Sunday 10th August 2014 leaving from demanding, tending to use single track roads as Durham Services at 10am. Apologies to John for much as possible. this oversight. I’m still in the process of trying to organise a You should find enclosed in this Journal the photo speaker to attend the section meet on Sunday, May / riding quiz that Simon has put together. This is a 11th. Sunday the 18th, Peter Wright will be putting new and great opportunity to explore the North East on one of his North Wales Wanderer runs. Please and the Borders and to visit some fine places to meet up at Legends Cafe, J & S car pack, Oakmere get a snap of your bike with the latest Journal. No for a 10am departure. Photo-shopping please! Of course we cannot miss out Mike Gibson’s We had a great time at Cooper Sunderland at midweek run out departing Kirkby Lonsdale, their bike launch and viewed the new GS Adventure,
Graham Fell & Paul Stewart at the Southport Superbikes launch day R1200R with R90S paint scheme
66 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 R1200RT and others, which included a R1200R all. A tall, laconic figure on a large cruiser with his with a stunning R90S paint scheme. We picked up “chick”. Being bereft of my own triumph today I was a few new members on the day, so welcome to you in fact sporting a silver 800/650 GS BMW. Most and we look forward to seeing you at a Natter Night. people have never seen me with a BMW but this is Things are now moving at a pace with our Spring in fact my tenth one! Whereas I have never been a National Rally. As you have read in April’s Journal, one make sort of chap, I am a one club enthusiast. Jim Worley from Metzeler has kindly donated a The best club of course. Our venue today was a voucher for a set of tyres and some other goodies public house but has now been re-invented as a for the rally. The ride outs are being finalised and themed Bikers Cafe. In the middle of nowhere but will appear on the Forum in due course. We have on the Abergavenny “circuit” the Steel Horse, as it is a good number coming from all over the country now called, deserves to be a great success. A new to explore our wonderful area that is steeped in “Motorcycle Mecca” and destination for the retired history, and you will be guided around by people mid week rider. Not Monday or Tuesday tho’! who know roads and lanes you would not have Many thanks to all who turned up to support our guessed existed with some fantastic views to be lunch meet at The Farmers Table on 26th March. seen! Are you still sitting on the couch looking at We had only booked a table for 10 so were both that booking form??? Come and join us! As they surprised and amazed when a staggering 28 say, the more the merrier, especially with the local people turned up. Luckily the manageress was ales we are bringing in for your consumption. very happy to accommodate the extras and as Please check your diary as there are a variety of we didn’t all order food at the same time no one ride-outs planned with our first Fish and Chip run had to wait too long before tucking in, even though of the season led by Graham Walker, so we won’t early orderers had to go without chips due to a late know where we will end up! delivery of supplies. Great to see Steve and Sally on their new bike and they entered to a round of Bradley Gane applause from us all. We all sang Happy Birthday [email protected] to Jenny which provided a bit of entertainment for both the other customers and staff. Members Oxford Section arrived using a variety of transport, car, motorbike, pushbike and pram the latter containing Sue and Sunday 9th March saw us all at our monthly meeting Colin’s 7 week old grandson Lucas who had wisely venue at Devauden with the added attraction of brought his Mum with him so he could have his own pancakes being “created” by Jean Bradbeer and refreshments. A lovely venue with fantastic views Colin Ross. They both did a sterling job despite across the countryside, good food and friendly staff Dennis Bradbeer making them use his own dodgy so we shall definitely be nominating them for tea flour mix! Despite a growing and hungry queue, shop of the year in the Cotswold Life Food and which lacked patience, they struggled through Drink awards for 2014. regardless. It was just as well the weather had There was a good turnout of over 35 members chosen to chosen to rise to 17oC as cook outdoors to the Anchor Inn, Tintern despite the cloudy start. as we were in danger of burning down the hall by Nice to see Dave Meadows there as this was his using the gas burners. Afterwards we listened to first meet in 10 years in the club! Just goes to show Julian of Bikers Cove, Gloucester, who showed its better late than never. us the latest range of helmets of Nexx , one of Highlight of the month was the launch of BMW’s which had integral mirrors ! Their jackets also had new range. Members were dispatch across the four one that glowed in the dark. Whatever next? The dealers in our area with a view to meeting as many biggest shock was Chris Bates turning up on a owners as possible and hoping to persuade them F700GS, after all he has ever said ! Nice to see Ali to join up. A total of five new riders were signed up, in attendance who is recovering well after her little with the strong possibility of some others joining at a mishap and would like to thank all members who later stage. Lots of interested names were entered sent her their best wishes. into a draw with the promise of free membership, Sunday 16th March dawned sunny after a week and who could resist? The winner was Mrs.Amanda of unremitting murkiness. For the first time in quite Menear who attended Dick Lovetts at Bristol, and a while an “outing” was listed under the “Chris and we look forward to meeting her again at an event. Alison” banner. As most people will know Alison Those members who supported this at the dealers is out of action following a fairly serious shoulder were Haydn and Sandy and Roger in Wales. Sue op and so it fell to me (Chris) to carry the day as it and Colin at Clarkes, Tony at Cotswold, and Dennis were. With the BMW launches taking place at local and myself at Bristol. All this effort was met with dealers I had supposed that this meeting would be various degrees of success, and varying degrees poorly supported, however I was wrong. When I of assistance by the Dealers. We all agreed it was arrived I was met with the sight of many recycled a worthwhile exercise and can only help to cement coffee bar cowboys. One was hardly recycled at our growing relations at dealer level. Thanks to
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 67 those dealers who made us welcome and kept us fed ! John L Broad [email protected] or check the website at bmwcluboxford.com Scottish Section Mick Reed’s Glenluce: My first time and what a superb area to visit. We had a brilliant if very cold ride down from Fife but with three stops for drink, food and a warm up it wasn’t an endurance test but would have been better if I had got my brain in gear The Guinness weekend and put the heated seat on. We arrived to find a warm room at the Kelvin House Hotel, unpacked and wandered across the road to the campsite to find 14 throats of the self styled Scottish Junior Section with hardy souls camping and 8 in static caravans. In designer Tom’s visits to Rose Street, Edinburgh in total there were 27 staying the weekend and 3 day days gone by being the hot topic of conversation. visitors on the Saturday so a reasonable turnout. A good fun relaxing weekend with lots of chat and Furthest travelled were probably Karen and Bob laughter. Smith Scottish section members from Bicester The Hopeville lunch meet in March was combined with a talk and demonstration by our favourite on their brand new very hi viz R1200 GS which Paramedic Keith Jensen. Keith’s main topic this is painted in the colours of the 1985 Paris- Dakar time was how to remove a helmet and preservation winning BMW GS which went straight in for it’s first of life. Keith definitely has the knack of getting the service on returning home. Eddie from Hexham and point over in a very interesting and memorable way. still hobbling with his tendon injury from Glencoe “I The company and banter were first class and I now manage it’s not my brake foot “ rode up for Friday know one of the secrets of Norman’s Hopeville night only, as he was under orders from Mrs Eddie success – the donuts and mini tray bakes!! Thanks to be back for his birthday celebrations. Peter, as to Norman, Diane, Somersal and Co for making usual, had travelled up from the London area and those of us who don’t usually manage to travel the there were others who had travelled from various distance to Hopeville so welcome. parts of England and Wales to meet up with friends Relaunch of Ceres Natter Night. After a winter lay- from the Scottish section. The weather was kind off the natter night is to be restarted and will be on and most managed to stay dry on their ride outs the second Wednesday of the month from 7.30pm on the Saturday and there were no frozen tent zips onwards at Meldrums Hotel, Ceres, Fife. KY15 this year.. The Guinness flowed nicely down the 5NA. This will be for a trial period commencing on Wednesday 14 May. All welcome on two or four wheels. Contact David Robertson on 07762 881449 or email [email protected] You will have seen in last month’s Journal that Scott Burnett, a Traffic Officer and Collision Investigator is giving a talk and demonstration at the Buccleuch Arms Hotel lunch meet on Sunday June 15th. Scott’s talk and demonstration will begin at 1pm and last approximately 1 hour. May I suggest that if you intend to have lunch at the Buccleuch that you arrive at 12 noon and place your order on arrival. We are going to be using the larger downstairs room for this meet. It would really help the Buccleuch staff if they had an idea on numbers of folk wishing to eat – a quick email to let me know if you are going to be there would be a great help BMF Kelso Bikefest 4 – 6 July: So far there has been a deafening silence to the appeal for members to take on the responsibility of promoting the Club at this event this year. We need at least 4 volunteers to Hi-Viz Bob erect the marquee, man the stand Friday, Saturday, Sunday, dismantle and pack away the marquee on
68 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 the Sunday afternoon. If we don’t get any volunteers June it will be the first time in many years that the Club Rosanna was originally going to arrange a Pizza has not had a presence at this event. Can you help? Day on 8th June, but this may now morph into a Reminders: Sunday lunch at the Seven Stars in Ripley. Keep Gretna Hall Hotel May Bank Holiday weekend: an eye out for further details about this. On 18th 2nd – 4th May June if you fancy an evening run, head to Mother Lochearnhead: 23rd – 25th May: For the purposes Kelly’s in Portsmouth for fish and chips and meet of catering and accommodation please book with up with other members anytime between 18.00 and me by Sunday 18th May. 20.00hrs. The following weekend, Nick and Sarah Scottish/North East/Northern: 1st June: Lunch have kindly agreed to offer their popular camping meet up at Tibbie Shiels Inn, St Mary’s Loch, Selkirk. weekend in the New Forest again. This is 20th to Keep up to date with any changes and latest news 22nd and must be pre-booked to allow for catering, (if there is any) on the Scottish Section website. so please ring Nick on 07775 702265. The last event in June will be Bob’s mystery run on 29th. Ride safe. More details to follow. There is a lot of information on our website and Judy this is much more up to date, so please check this 01592 874592 out on www.thebmwclubsouthern.com [email protected] If anyone is not on the email list of updates and wishes to have their address added, please contact Erica. This is very useful, as I received an Southern Section email today to say that the run tomorrow has been What a difference a year makes!!! Last year our cancelled. It is the only way to get the information winter talk in March was at risk of being called out to members quickly. off due to bad weather. Fast forward to the 9th of Gerri March this year, over 40 people enjoyed a repeat 01895 446896 (not after 20.00hrs please) visit from Nathan to hear about his trip across the [email protected] USA on Dorothy the ‘postie bike’ and due to the sun shining, the car park was full with 26 bikes and only a few cars. Again we had the guys bringing the Erica cakes and biscuits and manning the kitchen. The 07528 873056 following weekend Gail led her walk. Due to the [email protected] recent rain, the state of the ground was uncertain, so the meet started in the Hurdles Pub at Droxford South East Section for lunch. 7 people met up in lovely sunshine, had a good lunch, then enjoyed a great walk to get rid of Shaun Mullingan’s run to the Museum of Army the extra calories. Flying, Middle Wallop, Nr. Andover is our first run Sunday 23rd was the breakfast meet at Redhill for May on the 4th. For over a 100 years the Army Aerodrome. Only 4 members turned up for this, and has been putting soldiers in the air, from balloons, I have been told it was mainly dry whilst they were biplanes to the most advanced helicopter gunships. riding, but the rain lashed down while everyone was There have infact been five branches of Army Flying enjoying the food in the café. since 1878. Saturday 10th is Dave Deacon’s Fish May & Chip Supper run. He will be taking us down to Now that the weather has improved I will remind The Pilot Inn, situated in the Dungeness National you of all the great events lined up for the next Nature Reserve. The Pilot dates back to 1633 when couple of months. We have to hope the weather smugglers operating on the Romney Marshes remembers that it is summer, as we have the three lured aground the Spanish vessel “Alfresia”. They section camping weekend at Sixpenny Handley murdered the crew and looted the cargo of spirits. 2nd to 5th May. The BMW day at The Ace Café The ship remains were used to build the original is on 11th May. There is the back to basics Spring Pilot and some of the original beams can still be National Rally 16th to 18th at Bellingham, details seen in the bar today. Once again, for those of you elsewhere in the journal. 31st to 2nd June and we at a loose end on Wednesday 14th please come have two camping weekends. We have been invited and join the regulars for the Midweek Run. John by Oxford section to join them again at the campsite Hawker will be hosting a General Knowledge Quiz at Lechlade and Dave suggests early booking as at Club Night on the 21st. These are always great it is half term. Contact Dave on 01367 252384 for fun and there will be a prize for the person who more details. Alternatively, Nigel is organising a knows the most or is very good with an ‘educated weekend at the County Inn, Midhurst. This weekend guess’! 23rd to 26th is Chris and Angela Coffill’s will also include the Ides of March event. Weekend Trip to Honfleur, details of which can be
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 69 found on our Website. For those of you not going the Blackwater Estuary. The service was brilliant to Honfleur the lunchtime meet on the 25th is at the and our food came out very quickly. Half way Waterside Cafe, Hawkhurst Fish Farm, Hawkhurst through our meal it suddenly got very dark and the a very pretty and tranquil spot to spend a couple of hailstones came but in true form there was no panic hours. Not forgetting of course the Friday evening we just carried on – haddock and chips with ice on meets at the Golden Cross, Hailsham on the 9th the side! A member of staff came out and put up and The Monument, Whitstable on the 30th. the huge “sun” umbrellas – disaster averted! Our What a difference a month makes! 16 bikes left journey back was broken by a timely stop at the Coopers for the Midweek Run on the 12th March Tea Rooms in the very pretty village of Blackmore. led by Kevin Goldfinch. Kevin’s route took us down Whilst having a cup of tea (inside) we were very to Rye and we then made progress through the lucky to miss the second and heaviest hailstone villages of Lydd, New Romney, Dymchurch, nipped storm of the day! past Hythe and Folkstone to Dover arriving finally at Eighteen of us met for lunch at Brookside Garden the Bluebird Cafe at the top of the Cliffs overlooking Centre on the 30th. This being an ideal opportunity St. Margarets Bay. Usually, a good vantage spot to chat and catch up especially with those who to watch the Channel Ferries coming and going, do not ride. It was lovely to see Pam Hawker, the unfortunately, there was a thick sea mist ruining a first time since Christmas. For varying reasons good view. (one probably being that it was Mother’s Day) not Coopers held an event on the 15th. Food was everyone could do the run. Alan and Linda Thomas laid on sausage and/or bacon rolls early on and a suggested a ride down to Appledore for afternoon hog roast later. We had a small display which a few tea at Miss Molletts Tea Room. Splendid idea, people showed an interest. Although this was not unfortunately, the tea room was full. Undeterred in our Diary of Events 24 members of the section (as usual) we journeyed on to Tenterden where we supported the event. were made very welcome at a tea room behind the Club Night on the 19th was the “Where in the shops, opposite Tenterden Museum aptly named World” quiz consisting of 32 photographs of famous “Indulgence”. landmarks and it would seem that John Hawker was Debbie Morris the most travelled or well read member scoring 54 0208 301 1600 points out of a possible 64 and winning the prize. [email protected] Well done John and my thanks go to all who took part. Sixteen bikes took part in Cliff and Julie’s run South West Section to Maldon Park on the 23rd. Cliff’s route through Summer should be upon us by the time you read this so we will be looking forward to warm and dry ride outs and camping weekends. Those eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that in last months Journal the Dartmoor Rally dates were wrong they should have said 5th to 7th of September, they used last years advert by mistake, plenty of time to get things put right. In March we had 2 new venues with the reports to follow, but they proved to be very popular as they both have a central location, they may well be used in the future. Hi guys, here is my write up for the section meet at the Weary Traveller on Sunday 2nd March. Pub meet at “The Weary Traveller” Sunday 2nd March 2014. With steadily deteriorating weather during the morning we ended up with another wet meet, Maldon Park although not as bad as the last meet. 6 of us made it to the Weary Traveller. It was good to see Nick again and hear his good news that following his last Essex met with a diversion or two and we also got visit to the “Weary T” he’d visited C W’s and they’d embroiled in a “Charity Road Run”. At one point sorted out his timing and the bad running problems. the runners were overtaking us! After parking the Only to have this tempered with the sad news that on bikes on the Hythe immediately in front of the old his way home his big end bearings went west, about Thames Barges we made our way to the very busy 30 miles from his home in Plymouth. He explained Queens Head for lunch. As we were a large party to that he is intending to put in a replacement engine. accommodate (22 in all) we sat outside overlooking Don from Plymouth was able to provide him with a
70 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 number of names in the Plymouth area, where he member Pete Leach. Pete, who lives in Willand, was may be able to get some help. Hopefully, by the time approached last year by famed World adventure we read this Nick will be out there riding the roads tour company Globe Busters ( run by Kevin & and enjoying his BMW. Julia Saunders) to become their support driver. Keith and Dunc realized that they’re both going to Pete gave us a fascinating insight into his role and the same rally at Easter. took us through a three-month tour from London My update, my treatment is still preventing me to Beijing. Driving just a standard long wheel base from riding the trike. Hopefully, if the district nurse’s (left hand drive) white Ford transit, Pete is used to work on my additional plumbing is successful, I fix both bikes and bones and to transport spares hope to be back on the road by Easter. Sylv and I such as tyres and shock absorbers and indisposed are looking forward to going for ride and going to a riders! He also does basic services on route such pub meet on the trike. Thanks to all for coming. Ride as oil, filter and plug changes. The vast majority of safe. Chris & Sylv riders use BMW GS motorcycles, although on this On Sunday 16th. March 21 BMW Riders attended particular trip there was a KTM. The accommodation our first meeting at The Dolphin Hotel, Bovey on route is always the best available at the final stop Tracey. of the day, but best must be used very loosely, as Several members travelled up from Cornwall in this ranged from the Raffles Hotel in Bejing to a what started as a damp foggy morning, but their 250 side by side truckers bed stop in Turkmenistan efforts were rewarded with a glorious sunny social where the mattresses were crawling with all sorts amongst friends. As we have not been attending of bugs! The route goes through passes, over social gatherings of late I was encouraged to see mountains and war torn borders to countries where quite a few members that have been in the BMW they still fire a daily round of tank shells at one Club for a lot longer than yours truly. The landlord at another! For those taking part in the ride it really The Dolphin Hotel thoughtfully set out several tables is an adventure of a lifetime, whilst some are multi in a dedicated area especially for us. The food millionaires, others have just ploughed everything menu was varied and the portions were generous, or sold everything to complete such an epic tour in fact some were beaten into submission and John and many are inconsolable at the end having Dyke’s dog was the beneficiary. Any comments on achieved such a once in a lifetime journey. Pete is a use of this venue is encouraged, especially as I superb talker, who made the presentation just over believe the local infrastructure is ideal for autumn an hour long a real enjoyment with a good laugh and winter visits. thrown in. And on behalf of the section we would The 16th. November 2014 sees the Southwest like to thank him for giving us his time and arranging Section BMW Club make a return visit to the such a great afternoon and a special thanks also to Dolphin Hotel. Watch the journal for details as a The Gissons who made a room especially available talk on motorcycle travel in the Himalayan Foothills to us free of charge. could possibly take place Coming up in May the annual 3 Section Rally at Les Madge Sixpenny Handley, Sunday the 4th Mark is taking you to the Paignton Bike Festival meeting at Haldon Gissons report, with Pete Leach’s presentation, Hill Grill to leave at 10.30am. Sunday the 11th there Sunday 23rd March 2014. A very healthy contingent is an addition to the Lords Café Meet, Don Rolling is from all over the section met at The Gissons Inn in going to take us for a short ride to Lawrence Castle Kennford for a great carvery before settling down to leaving at least by 2.00 pm. On the 17th I have hear a fabulous talk and presentation from section shortened my normal Saturday Padstow ride out to
Gissons Pete Leach
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 71 a late afternoon / evening ride starting at Morrisons pocket) and the two R nineT machines on display Bodmin at 4.00pm, but you can meet us in Padstow had already been snapped-up as well as all the for around 5.30/6.00 pm. See you there. R1200GS Adventures. Great interest was shown in the R1200RT’s and S1000R’s on show but some Don Rabson thought the 1600 GTL Exclusive a bit too much, 01840 212913 though time will tell! The Monday following the [email protected] launch was St. Patrick’s Day, a public holiday for us and a small group returned to Hurst Motorrad to support (in the moral sense, you understand, rather Ulster Section than the financial) Gordon as he collected his new Although still early in the season the Wednesday 1200 GSA. There followed a short, shakedown-run runs during March remained popular with those along the traditional, A2 Antrim Coast Road route lucky riders (affectionately known as ‘Hell’s to Carnlough at which point there was a heavy Grandas’) who are free during the day. One shower of rain, just so we were not overawed by too complainant about being cold was asked, “Ach! Are much sun all at once. Gordon announced he was ye a man or a mouse?” prompting the response, well pleased with his purchase then, joined by the others at the local café, tucked into a celebratory “I must be a man!…my wife’s afraid of mice.” “filled-soda” (an Ulster delicacy with absolutely no Fortunately, the middle of the month gave way to respect for cholesterol levels – being a full soda- a mild, sunny spell of weather which allowed the bread “sandwich” of bacon, egg and sausage group to take full advantage of the dry roads. After usually clabbered with brown sauce) washed down such a wet winter we had to refresh certain skills with a mug of tea strong enough to trot a mouse on the waterless tarmac; leaning the bike over over. Thank goodness for the GS Adventure’s ability further, braking a bit later and more firmly and even to carry loads. collecting the odd, hardy insect on our screens and The Section’s second club run of the year was visors - most exhilarating. On one of those days held on 23 March and an encouraging twenty several of us managed to cover well in excess of riders and one pillion (who else but Harriet?) 200 miles during which we travelled through all six met at Scrabo Tower near Newtownards . The counties effectively performing a mini ‘Round-Ulster remarkable turn-out was aided in no small measure Tour’. The weather was perfect and the scenery by the glorious weather as well as the welcome stunning so we also seized the opportunity to make appearance of some new Section members. As if a start on our annual photograhic competition by to illustrate the evolution of BMW motorcycles there taking pics of the Round Tower at Armoy and of the was an impressive variety of machines ranging statue of ‘Cushy’ Glenn, the highwayman, on the from an R80/7 to a brand new S1000RR. In bright ‘Murderhole’ Road near Limavady. sunlight the group descended from the heights at On Saturday 15 March our local BMW dealership, Scrabo with its phenomenal views over Strangford Charles Hurst Motorrad, hosted their ‘New Season Lough, passed through small villages along the Launch’ displaying five, new models. The event County Down coastal route and finished for lunch proved extremely popular and the large numbers at Newcastle where the “the mountains of Mourne of bikers attending the affair were very impressed sweep down to the sea”. with the variety and quality of the latest machinery. Our April Club meeting was addressed by There was a bike to suit everyone’s taste (if not their Aaron Clydesdale, a tyre specialist from A1 Tyres
Mad March Hare run Chairman with Aaron
72 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 near Dromore. A bike rider himself, with 26 years’ All contributions, amendments and notice of errors experience in the trade, Aaron explained the should be sent to me in the first instance please at importance of selecting the correct tyres for your the address below. I’ll forward them to Tony so he bike – based on the use to which you’ll be putting can make the changes. We hope to amend the site them rather than purely the price (although a lot as necessary almost on a daily basis! depends on personal preference and confidence). We organised a bit of a last minute gathering He addressed in detail the legal aspects of mixing/ late in March to the Craven Motorcycle Museum matching and the dilemma of puncture repair, for Easter Monday. Many thanks for those who particularly the pros and cons of plugs versus attended and hope you enjoyed yourselves. We fluids and aerosols. The importance of correct tyre were too late to catch the last Journal to advertise pressures and tread depth was stressed and it this event but it was well publicised on the forum was astonishing to see just how thin the carcass and the new web site. If you missed it, don’t worry as of a motorcycle tyre is, especially when worn – the Museum is open again on Sunday/Monday the almost paper-thin in fact! When replacing tyres his 4th and 5th of May. It’s a veritable emporium of all company fills them with nitrogen because it has things classic motorcycle and well worth a visit. It’s bigger molecules than ‘air’, contains no moisture at Stockton Lane, Stockton on Forest, York, YO32 and maintains a constant pressure. There was an 9UE. That’s just off the end of the York bypass at the opportunity for questions from a capacity audience ‘Scarborough’ end. Take a Left, left and left again! and, thanks to Aaron, everyone gained a better Way point: N53 59.256 W001 01.008. understanding of the importance of tyre choice and Another informal gathering that we’ve managed maintenance at the start of the season. to set up is at The Smiths Arms on Saturday 3rd The speaker at our May meeting will be Howard May. (And Sunday 4th too). This is a meeting of Godolphin, a Motorcycle Area Manager for BMW traction engines, classic cars and commercial Motorrad UK. He will present the Company position vehicles as well as motorcycles. The BMW Club is and, being a man with a vast knowledge of all things welcome to attend especially members who own motorrad, answer any queries you may have. There and arrive on classic BMWs. Find the pub at Church will be lots happening in May starting with the Nethy Row, Beckwithshaw, Harrogate, HG3 1QW. Way Bridge weekend in Scotland between the 2nd – 5th point: N53 58.465 W001 35.578. I’m afraid I won’t so study the Section Diary to keep up to date and be there. I’ll be enjoying real Scottish hospitality at join in where you can. the Gretna Green hotel weekend. Note that neither By the way, something for all National Club of the above meetings are official BMW Club events members to look forward to will be the release this so members attend at their own risk as guests of the summer (June?) of a documentary film, “Road”, venue owners. which tells the extraordinary story of two generations We are still experimenting with the weekly of the one family - Joey and Robert Dunlop and meeting at Squires Café Bar. Committee member Robert’s sons, William and Michael. Narrated by Stuart West has been along every week at noon on Liam Neeson, the documentary which had its world Wednesdays since we set it up. So far he’s not met premiere on 27 March at The Belfast Film Festival a club member but he’s happy to continue going for is, from initial reports, a dramatic and sentimental a while on the off chance and to enjoy a snack and account of the two, road racing brothers. Keep a a chat with other bikers. He says the place has been look-out in the media over the next few weeks for smartened up and the menu is much improved too. details of the general release of “Road”. If you are going, look out for Stuart on his blue R1100R. Photos of all such events would be much Stuart Greig appreciated. [email protected] My suggestion of Members going of the Picos 07738596878 in northern Spain with MSL Tours in October has borne fruit. We have three couples and two singles all booked up. If you’ve booked the tour and want Yorkshire Section to let us know in advance, do please get in touch. We’ve been rather busy in the last month or so I’m really looking forward to what I regard as my getting the Yorkshire Web Site up and running. ‘grand finale’ to the riding year. I’m not sure if there’s The old one was run by Simon Crossley. He’s now any space left on the tour. If you’re interested check resigned and left the club and so the site was not direct at www.msltours.co.uk. getting updated. Thanks go to Simon, if he happens On the last Sunday of March I decided to try a to read this, for all his hard work in the past. Now, ‘dummy run’ to our new meeting place at Askern thanks must go to long term Club member, Tony Lakeside Café and found at least seven other Robson, who has completely rebuilt the site and members doing just the same. We grabbed some spent many hours doing so. It’s now up and running outside seating and had a chat. Unfortunately for all to see and will be a useful tool for keeping another motorcycle club from Hull turned up just members up-to-date with the social calendar etc. before us (about 20 bikes) and ordered all the food.
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 73 Not much left for us! We are assured that this was now but still ride out on a BMW when back in the most unusual and unlikely to happen again but if UK. you are going and want to pre-order your meal the Finally we can report that John Everidge our phone number is 01302 708551 and the menu us Secretary attended the Jeffries Motorrad new model up online at www.thelakesidecafeaskern.com. Let’s launch day in mid-March. It was busy and some try it again next month and see how it goes. (Those interest was shown in our Club via the new leaflet of us not at the National AGM that is). Generally we dispenser that we’ve set up there. New bikes were all thought it a pleasant place to meet up. good too. BMW really seem to be on a roll right now! It was good to meet up with Ron and Sue That’s it for now. See you around. (The little guy Thackeray at the Howsteen Gorge Café last month. with the badge!!). Ron used to be our Section Secretary back in the 80s and did much good work for the Club at that Piers Kurrein time. I understand they spend a lot of time in Spain 07866 622 196 [email protected] Vintage Register Spring has arrived, clocks changed and for many the motorcycle season has started. Dependent on when the May Journal drops through your letter box, we will either be looking forward meeting up with folks at the Registers first event of the year the Stafford Classic Bike Show 26th - 27th April or it will have taken place. From the Forum I note that a number of members are visiting on their way home from the National AGM in Oxfordshire and the Yorkshire Section have a ride out to the event. Following the budget vehicles registered in 1973 will now qualify as an Historic Vehicle and pay zero road fund tax. It is important to note this change of category is no longer automatic. The owner must amend the V5C Registration Certificate to Historic Vehicle and submit it to the DVLA and new V5C will be issued. If the vehicle is already taxed it is not necessary to wait until it expires, you can implement the change to Historic and claim a rebate on unexpired tax. As with all budgets the detail is in the small print. Safe riding. John Winn The Yorkshire Section Leaflet 01604 631043 Dispenser at Jeffries Motorrad [email protected]
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Motorcycles For Sale “K” Series K75S-‘H’ reg.-Blue. 50,000 miles. BMW “F” Series panniers. Owned since 2006. MoT May. Recent F650GS (TWIN)-August 2009-With 14,000 work (done by BMW workshop): Full clutch unit, miles. Blue with ABS, heated grips, trip comp, fuel pump and all fittings, heavy duty battery, centre stand, Scottoiler, custom gel seat and spark plugs etc. Bills and receipts to hand. BMW expanding panniers. Lady owner. Great Quite a bit of history with bike. £1,700. Consider condition and MoT. £4,550. Caroline 07896 P/X or just purchase Boxer complete bike, 301481 (Cheshire). original condition, don’t mind some work, light restoration. Possible to deliver above (South). F650/800GS-2011-Silver. 7,000 miles. BMW Malcolm 01803 612272 (Devon). expandable boxes, taller screen, small rack, K100RT-1988-Blue, 78,000 miles. BMW Touratech seat, low suspension. One lady owner. panniers and inners. BMW top box and tank £4,995. June 01432 830287 (Hereford). bag. Temperature and fuel clocks, stainless F800GS-September 2008-With 21,000 miles. fasteners, crash bars, new battery and rear Sunset yellow/black with ABS, heated grips, tyre. Very good condition. £1,100 o.n.o. Howard trip comp, centre stand, Scottoiler and gel seat 01530 838053 or email howardpymm@hotmail. and new battery. Great condition and will come co.uk (Leicestershire). with new full MoT. £4,750. Peter 01606 782159 K1200RS-1998 ‘R’-Dakar yellow/silver-grey (Cheshire). metallic. Genuine 41,000 miles. Very good
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 75 condition. Lots of history and receipts. Two (original also present and working), Krauser previous owners on logbook. Long MoT, currently panniers and top box (with keys and all locks SORN. This was a £12,000 bike new!! The working), Powerflow stainless exhaust system. A ‘Ultimate Flying Banana’. Complete with touring classic Boxer and great all rounder. £2,500 o.n.o. panniers, top case, tank bag, touring and sports Photographs available. David 07506 717717 or bars, plus spare original mirrors. Ready for that email [email protected] (West Sussex). long weekend or longer European tour!! Enjoy. £2,500 firm. Mike 01793 685799 (evenings) or R1100R-75th Anniversary Edition-No corrosion email [email protected] (Swindon). and a genuine 16,273 miles on the clock. With panniers, injector covers, hand guards, screen, “R” Series heated grips, rear rack. Two keys, all hand books, R45-1979-Blue. 59,000 miles. Fitted with R65 all old MoT's and invoices. The bike has not been barrels and pistons, so goes very well. Has used for two years so does not currently have an front screen and old fashioned Craven panniers. MoT. This bike will only increase in value due to Recent MoT and Tax. I have too many bikes its rarity. £3,250 o.n.o. Clive 01889 576578 or so must sell. £1,250. John 01628 636045 email [email protected] (Staffordshire). (Maidenhead). R1150GS ADVENTURE-2002-Only 19,500 R75/5-1974 (1973 model)-Rewired, powdered miles. Non servo ABS, silver with black engine, coated tank and mudguards painted and lined. 30 litre tank and heated grips. Excellent condition New battery. Stainless spokes. New swinging with full service history. Many extras include arm bearings. Certificate of Manufacture April luggage, Remus exhaust, HID dip, custom gel 1973. Lots of documents, invoices and MoTs. seat etc. I have owned this superb bike since Tool kit. Price offers in the region of £3,600. 2004, very reluctant sale. One years MoT and Stephen 01132 037751 or 07852 511407 (Leeds Tax until September. Please telephone or email area near Leeds Bradford Airport). for more information. £4,950 o.v.n.o. Adrian R75/6-1976 750 Boxer twin-For sale because 01233 637383 or 07767 346597 or email adrian. of ill health. Only two owners. 13,000 miles. wells7@ btopenworld.com (Kent). Garaged and covered. On SORN for three R1150RT-2003, 40,000 miles. Service history years. Electronic ignition. All paperwork. Good and just serviced by Roger Downey. Panniers general condition. Matching frame and engine and Givi Topbox. Head protectors and crash numbers. £2,000 o.n.o. John 01792 233639 or email [email protected] (South Wales bars. Silver Grey. MOT to July. Good BT021 area). Tyres. Some wear and tear marks, N/S mirror glass cracked but will be replaced. £3,750 ono. R80RT-1994-Black. Third owner. All old MoT’s. Chaz, Isle of Wight, 07521 695992 or email 54,325 miles. Taxed/MoT end July 2014. Two [email protected] new tyres and panniers. Well above average condition for year. Serviced. These bikes way Others under valued. £2,750 o.n.o. please. David 01761 HONDA CB200-1979-Green. 42,000 miles. 433791 (Bath). Lovely lightweight bike, with electric start and R100R-1992 ‘J’-33,000 miles. In simply kick start. Fitted with Craven panniers and rear stunning condition having recently undergone rack. £850. John 01628 636045 (Maidenhead). a full and fastidious comprehensive nut and bolt restoration including paintwork refinishing SUZUKI DL1000GT V-STROM-‘07’ reg.-Blue. by Dream Machine in classic black and white Excellent condition. 11,000 miles. Heated grips, BMW livery. Far too much to list but includes centre stand, colour matched panniers and top new wheel rims, seat and stainless exhaust etc., box, Spyball alarm, chain oiler. £4,150. Mike resulting in a condition which is indistinguishable 07765 648909 or email [email protected] from new. Delivery can be arranged if required. (Hertfordshire). £5,500. Willie 01383 830866 (Fife). TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD 900cc-2001-Red. R100RS-1979-Black with gold pinstripes. 17,800 miles. MoT to April 2015. Tax to June About 87,000 miles. Very good condition and 2014. Full service history. New tyres. £3,500. very reliable. Original apart from raised screen, Edward 01527 576374 or 07807 333824 or Boyer ignition, power socket, Surefoot sidestand email [email protected] (Bromsgrove).
76 The BMW Club Journal •May 2014 R1200RT BMW INNER PANNIER BAGS-In Bits & Bobs perfect condition. £70 for the pair. Dave 01514 1200GS PRE 2013-Genuine BMW accessory. 761998 or 07833 383955 (Merseyside, Maghull). Carbon fibre rear mudguard part no: ‘R’ SERIES-R1200RT pannier inner bags, good C1607690862. Cost £158. As new. Just bolts on. condition, £50 plus P&P. R1100 or R1150RT tank £50. Kevan 01622 728320 (Kent). bag, good condition, £20 plus P&P. Medium size ALL ‘R’ SERIES-Barrels and pistons 750, 800, kidney belt (new), £5 plus P&P. Brenda 01945 1000, £100 per pair. 5 SP and gear box, £120. 870424 (Cambridgeshire). RS heads, £240. B. box 37-11, £120. B. box 34- SANTIAGO BOOTS-Size 44. Not used off-road 11, £140. Starters × two, £55 each. Crank cases, so in good used condition. £60 including P&P. £40. All open to offers. Stephen 01132 037751 or Adrian 01285 740279 or email adriansellars@ 07852 511407 (Leeds area near Leeds Bradford wenmans.co.uk (Gloucestershire). Airport). SMALL (28 LITRE) BMW TOP CASE-Black. BARGAIN BOXER BITS-Left from previous sale: Fits R1200RT (to 2012), also R1200ST and Tyres: (front) 90×90×18 Avon, (rear) 400×18 K1200GT (book says). Good condition. Inner Avon. Both 500m, only £30 each. One headlamp, bag and two keys included. £100 plus shipping complete, £10. Exhaust set, complete: Silencers as required. Or collect-Newbury area. Neville and balance pipe. Stainless and in good clean 01635 253483 or email [email protected] condition, from R80/7, £60. Take whole lot £120. (Newbury). George (text) 07523 971861 or 07510 663039 (Surrey). TANK BAG-For R850/1100/1150GS metal tank. Only used twice so as new condition. Complete FOR 1994 K1100-Pair City panniers, good with all fixings, rain cover and instructions. Also watertight condition with key, £45. RAM rear Ferodo FDB2039P rear brake pads for same, suspension unit with ‘C’ spanner, three years new. Job lot £75 o.v.n.o. plus P&P (or collect). use, £120. ABS diagnostic tool for Bosch John 01323 841498 or email john.burton99@ Motronic MA 2·1/2·2. Instructions in English hotmail.co.uk (Hailsham, Sussex). and German. £40. For F800ST to 2008, pair of flat, usable front discs. £45. All plus postage. Wanted Stephen 01235 203455 or 07790 800234 or email [email protected] (Abingdon). BMW CLUB MACHINE BADGE-Any condition, from pre-1980's. Also want parts or complete FOR BMW F800 R/S/ST MODELS-Corbin bike to enable R60 rebuild. I will return call or leather seat. Canyon dual seat in very good text. Nick 07904 505496 (Lancashire). condition. More comfort for touring etc. £150 o.n.o. plus P&P (or collect). Mike 01228 BMW HP2 SPORT-Cash available. Private buyer. 560266 or email [email protected] Nicholas 01287 624085 or email whitlock_121@ (Carlisle). hotmail.com (Cleveland). R65, R80 and R100 Basic, GS, RT and K75/100 SERIES-BMW panniers for sale. BMW- Good condition. £80. Lynette 07855 890270 or RS models, any condition, cash waiting, can email [email protected] (West collect. Ian 01694 723546 (Trader). Yorkshire). LOWERED SADDLE-For 1997 R1100RT. Des 02890 702697 (Northern Ireland. R1100RT OR R1150RT-Seats for sale. One pair. Excellent condition. £120 plus postage. R80GS/ST-Right hand side panel. Clive Pannier lids (I’ve replaced my standard City 01889 576578 or email [email protected] lids with the larger Global lids). Good condition. (Staffordshire). £75 plus postage. John 07826 397275 or email R90/6-Wanted by club member, preferably a [email protected] for pictures (Shropshire). low mileage example in original condition with R1200R COMFORT SEAT-In immaculate a good history and background, but would also condition (height 780mm on bike). Cost new consider a professionally restored machine. over £300 from BMW. Fits all years R1200R. Not interested in anything scruffy or in need of £100 plus P&P. Alan (evenings) 01631 566938 attention or restoration. Willie 01383 830866 (Argyll). (Fife).
The BMW Club Journal • May 2014 77 R100RS WEDGE TOOLBOX-For use with single seat. Dave 01633 896416 or email dave. [email protected] (Newport). STAINLESS STEEL SILENCERS 10 YEAR GUARANTEE SPEEDOMETER FOR 1983 R65-I need a The silencers listed are manufactured by us to original specifications and produce comparable noise levels. German TUV approved. 14 day money back guarantee. MotoMeter m.p.h. speedo with the ratio code SILENCERS W1276. I'm also interested in a set of panniers BMW 5/6/7 SERIES 38MM ...... £272 .76 PR BMW R100RT .RS .RCS 38MM OR 40MM ...... £272 .76 PR for the same bike. (I have the rack, but no BMW R45/65 & LS ...... £272 .76 PR cases.) If you can help please contact Malcolm BMW R65/80/100 MONOSHOCK ...... £272 .76 PR BMW R100/GS PARALEVER TYPE ...... £305 .89 EA 01768 772121 or email malc.miller@btinternet. BMW R80GS/ST ...... £286 .01 EA BMW R69S ...... £305 .89 PR com (Cumbria). BMW R50/60/2 1955-68 ...... £286 .01 PR BMW 1200GS WITH LINK PIPE ...... £222 .56 EA EXHAUST PIPES BMW 6/7 RS RT RCS SINGLE BALANCE 38MM/40MM . .£168 .57 ST BMW 38MM TWIN BALANCE ...... £193 .20 ST BMW R45/65 SINGLE BALANCE ...... £168 .57 ST BMW R45/65 TWIN BALANCE ...... £193 .20 ST BMW R100/80GS ST/PARALEVER...... £158 .15 ST BMW R65/80/100 MONOSHOCK ...... £168 .57 ST BMW R50/60/69s ...... £189 .40 ST BMW 1200GS EXH .PIPE + CAT ELIMINATOR ...... £279 .33 ST COLLECTOR BOX/BALANCE PIPE, ETC BMW MONOSHOCK H PIECE (COLL BOX REP) . . . . . £112 .70 EA BMW R80GS/ST COLLECTOR BOX ...... £123 .11 EA BMW GS PARALEVER Y PIECE (COLL BOX REP) . . . . £137 .32 EA BMW R100R Y PIECE (COLL BOX REP) ...... £137 .32 EA BMW 1150GS Y PIECE (COLL BOX REP) ...... £178 .04 EA BMW SINGLE BALANCE PIPE (STATE MODEL) . . . . £ 32 .65 EA BMW TWIN BALANCE PIPE (STATE MODEL) . . . . . £ 56 .34 ST STAINLESS STEEL CLAMPS ...... £6 .15 EA STAINLESS STEEL ANGLE BRACKETS ...... £13 .26 PR STAINLESS STEEL PUSH ROD TUBES ...... £36 .93 ST EXHAUST SPANNER BRASS ...... £24 .62 EA ROSE NUT ...... £12 .30 EA BMW SHOCK SHROUDS /5,/6, KONI ...... £29 .83 PR
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