A monthly publication of The Vintage Motorcycle Club Johannesburg, South Africa. Volume 29. No 7. July 2015. CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE: It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to a excellent motorcyclist and special friend. Lloyd du Bois passed away on 3rd June 2015 after a long illness. Lloyd was 91. We will have further information in the next issue. Another passing that must be mentioned is that of Johnny “Flatnose” van Rooyen. Don’t forget to diarise and free up your weekend to attend the CMC 1000 Bike show. It happens at Germiston High School as ever on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July, 2015. If you haven’t yet volunteered your services or offered a bike or two for the VMC stand, please tell Gavin or Kevin of your willingness to help. I hope you are all preparing your ride for the VMC Winter Rally on Saturday, 19 July. Please make an effort to join us for a wonderful morning in the Cradle of Humankind. The 2015 Magnum Regs are out. You can download them along with all the necessary documentation from the VMC Events page on our website. More information on all these events is available from this space. We are planning a trip to the Historic Motorcycle Museum, at 17 Lake Street Deneysville, on Saturday 11th July. It is approximately a 200km road trip with the museum displaying some of the most unique historic motorcycles and memorabilia showcasing race bikes and race champions! As always, safe riding and keep your gloves on in this cold, winter period. Pierre. 1 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) Notice is hereby given that the 2015 Annual General Meeting of the Vintage Motorcycle Club will be held at the Vintage and Veteran Club at 3 Athol Oaklands Road, Oaklands, Johannesburg on Monday, 24 August 2015, commencing at 20:00. AGM Agenda To receive and consider the Annual Financial Statements and the Chairman’s Report for the year ending 30 June 2015. To elect office bearers and committee members for the new financial year. Nominations for the post of Chairman, Vice-chairman, Secretary and Treasurer must be made in writing and must be signed by the persons so nominated. Such nomination papers shall be furnished to the Secretary, prior to the commencement of the meeting mentioned above. It is requested that nominations for the election of committee members be similarly made in writing. To discuss any other business, deemed by the Chairman, to be relevant. Pierre Cronje Chairman (Notice dated 18 May 2015) CLUB NIGHT 23th June 2015 compiled by Ken Wiggins Apologies received from: Kevin Robertson, Gawie Nienaber, Les Simm, Gavin Walton, Bob Johnstone, Peter Pozniak Renney Plit and Erhard Langanke. Visitors/New Members: John Bond (BMW R50) and Michael Venables (1929 Velocette 2-stroke). Pierre welcomed everyone and set the scene for a very busy evening. Pierre introduced Bob Harpin, the CMC Librarian, for those who hadn’t met him. He gave us a short talk on the library and how VMC can make the best use of all the information and knowledge it contains. Don’t forget, it is now also our library. All the magazines that were in storage, going back to 1917 have been delivered to Bob. He is in the process of compiling a comprehensive catalogue of the magazines and books in the library and these are available on the CMC Website. Next up was Martin Davis who had his KTM 1190, which he’d ridden in his epic journey in the wilds of the Cape. The sage is documented in the article Martin submitted for the June issue. According to plan, Roly Tilman brought in his recently complete BMW R50/2. His talk was a highly animated discourse on the culmination of his 9 or 10 BM restorations. “I started with this budget” “Now let’s see if she will start” 2 He divulged that even though Mike Lester and Neville Smith do the best jobs, he was determined to complete a superb restoration on his R50! Even though he admitted spending around R46 thousand on the bike (please don’t mention that figure again), an undisclosed amount and effort was surely invested in the outstanding machine. After Roly brought the BMer into life, we all adjourned for refreshments and natters before the meeting was closed. There were 42 members in attendance at the very event filled meeting. Past Events POMC Mampoer Rally, 6th June On Saturday, 6th June the Pretoria Old Motor Club held their annual Mampoer Rally in the North East of Pretoria. The Rally started at the POMC Clubhouse on the corner of Keuning Drive & Fred Davey Avenue, Meyerspark, Pretoria and finished at the Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum, Cullinan. Three of our members acquitted themselves in exemplary fashion, although a certain member did sneak in under the guise of CMC (well done Gavin). Full results are given below. Table 1 is for the Competitive vehicles and Table 2 for Touring Class vehicles. Table 1 Competitor Position Entrant Navigator Club Score 6 1 Stander, Neil POMC 49 7 2 Walton, Gavin CMC 54 14 3 Fraser, Dane Fraser, Martie WCMC 91 9 4 McLeod, Dugald McLeod, Tanya PR 96 18 5 McLeod, Cameron McLeod, Louise PR 97 13 6 Vlietstra, Peter VMC 106 20 7 McLeod, Les McLeod, Marleen PR 117 11 8 Ross, Robin Naude, Craig SARRA 175 21 9 Marques, Zack vdKraats, Bryce POMC 180 10 10 Lance, William Lance, Juliana CMC 186 12 11 Theron, Sarel Visagie, Kobie PR 195 9 12 Eyssell, BJ Eyssel, BY POMC 226 5 13 Ferreira, Christo Ferreira, Lorna POMC 264 29 14 Janse van Rens, I DuPlessis, N 297 8 15 Ferreira, Ignatius Roux, Christo 311 15 16 Engels, Dirk Willem 6618 Table 2 Competitor Position Entrant Navigator Club Score 27 1 Cronje, Gwyneth Cronje, Pierre VMC 85 23 2 LoringettStepha SmithJoe 101 26 3 BilsonMike MaraisRichard Triumph 113 34 4 Nel, Frank Nel, Wayz 226 22 5 Sales, Bill TBA Triumph 267 28 6 Kraamwinkel, Frik Kraamwinkel POMC 320 30 7 Hough, Brian TBA 336 25 8 VDMerwe, Hannes vdMerwe, Makkie Lynxclu 614 32 9 Joubert, Helgard 626 24 10 NelHendrik Nel, Dorothea PR 1880 33 11 VanBiljon, Tokkie VanBiljon, Elna 2958 We take our hat off to Gwyneth Cronje’s Touring Class 1st place finish on her first ever entry as a driver in a Regulartiy Event. Well done Gwyneth. 3 Petrol Tank Rust by Janusz Gruszka I have come across the problem of rust in petrol tanks since the introduction of “modern” petrol, which contains alcohol. Alcohol fondness for absorbing water vapours and humidity (hence the hangover thirst) is to be blamed. This, in connection with vintage bikes not used very often, may result in horrifying discoveries after some time of storage. Result of prolonged exposure to air Magic formula lining after rust removal I enclose a photo of what I discovered in one of my bikes tanks. It also occurred on a number of my other bikes as well. Fortunately, Gary Lawson from Springs provided me with a solution and did thorough cleaning and lining with a “magic formula”. You can contact Gary on (073) 767-8129. Have other fellow Club Members experienced similar problems, or was it my bad luck only? Fuel Tank Comment Editor I would like to pursue this topic in future editions. The fuel available to us in SA is going to contain Biofuels from 1st October this year and I think we all understand the Hygroscopic properties (the ability of a substance to attract and hold water molecules) of certain biofuels. What will this mean to the fuel systems of older machines and how can we plan to minimise any impact it may have on our vintage vehicles. Please send you thoughts to the Editor at [email protected]. Tips on Modern Info/Service sources by Craig Patterson Over the course of a number of restorations I have required small parts or information. Because there is no real industrial infrastructure in my home town, I either have to travel to Gauteng or rely on courier services and the phone. This in most cases means "expensive", thus my best bet has been to source the part or an alternative over the internet. Here are some useful sites that I have made use of in the past. First of all, KlassiekRijden [www.klassiekrijden.nu] is a Dutch phrase meaning Classic Ride. Their website offers free downloads of parts manuals and workshop manuals ranging from Adler to AJS to Zundapp. A few years ago, I needed spokes and recently needed 2 sets for my current project. On stripping the wheel of my current project I discovered that the dimensions where exactly that of a Honda CD 200. I tried all the local bike shops for a suitable alternative only to be referred to the local Honda dealer whom I eventually consulted. After a few deft keystrokes on his computer the parts salesmen quoted me R50 a spoke. Nipples apparently weren’t included but in the same breath he noted that there was currently no stock. As if I was going to fork out that for spokes. 4 I went to "Google" on the internet and found eBay.com. After I opened the eBay website, I typed “motorcycle spokes” in the search field. There, amongst the listings of about 500 results, I discovered a Taiwanese seller laloma123. I opened the listing and clicked on "other items" to view the results. To complete my order, I contacted the seller by using the "ask a question" function on the site.