Newsletter
February 2009
Newsletter
February 2009
Just
to make sure we all know who has been doing what the present office bearers are
as follows
Chairman;
John Hyman
Secretary;
Treasurer;
Ian Coull
Events;
George Peddie
Agenda
Minutes
from last AGM
Chairman's Report
Secretary’s
Report
Treasurer’s
Report
Election
of Office Bearers
AOCB
The Capper
Rally
Two weeks ago I was at the Capper Rally, hosted by Special K
MCC at a site near Pathhead. A big change from last
year, heavy snow and temperatures of minus 6 made it quite cool but as always a
great party was had by all. There was a big contingent over from
The picture below courtesy of Bob
& Kate, taken on the Saturday morning. Note the two helmets left outside overnight on the
table, glad I wasn’t putting them on the next day!
Whats Happening?
Well you
should all have received your Roadholder by now with
your free Golden Jubilee badge and stickers. This is just one of the free
giveaways that the NOC will be handing out this year to celebrate their 50th
anniversary. The club have set aside £15K to ensure the celebrations go well.
Of course the main prize is a Norton Commando Mk2a to be raffled later in the
year. There has been a request from the club for branches to donate prizes for
the “super raffle” to be held later in the year. I said I’d put it to the
members but my first thought was we may want to keep any prizes for our own
Golden Jubilee meeting at Applecross in June. This immediately got everyone’s
back up in the committee and as a result the following letter was sent out,
this is a democratic branch so we can have a vote on this at the meeting.
“To
clarify our earlier request for you to seek donations to the Golden Jubilee
Events Competition (GJEC) prize-chest, let me assure everyone that this request
is simply to INCREASE the value of the GJEC to participants, which is going
ahead anyway.
To remind everyone, the GJEC brings together all our various events throughout
2009, the NOC's Golden Jubilee year, under the
umbrella of a competition, open to all members.
This competition exists at two levels; for the die-hard rally-ist, there are trophies for the Top Three in each of 5
classes (Light-weight, Heavy-weight twins, Rotaries, Singles and Girder-Forked
machines). These will be awarded to those having covered the highest mileages
in attending the GJEC events, and only those making quite significant efforts
to attend our various events really stand a chance of an award here - that's
how we want it to be, to reward those prepared to go out and support all our
Branches and the NOC as a whole by turning up at the events we're all putting
on for the membership.
At another level, there are also benefits for the more casual attendee at GJEC
events. Every event attended earns each attendee an entry in the free-of-charge
Raffle we're holding, so everyone stands a chance of winning something
worthwhile - obviously, the more events attended, the more entries in the
raffle, and the higher the chance of winning - but even the occasional attendee
is still in with a chance, so we spread the potential benefits as wide as we
can within the Club.
Top prize is a made-to-measure, made-to-winner's-specification top-notch
leather jacket from Scott Leathers, with the Golden Jubilee 'patch' included if
the winner so desires.
Other prizes? Well, that's where YOU come in. The more
prizes we can get, the more winners we'll have, so we're casting our net far
and wide, to see whether our branches and their members have good, local
contacts with local bike shops, local industries, camping shops etc., anyone
who we as a Club, through you, our local representatives, can approach with a
request for a donated prize of value (and preferably motorcycling relevance) to
add to the kitty - all donors will, of course, be properly recognised and
acknowledged in Roadholder at the appropriate time.
Obviously, with potential winners coming from anywhere in the UK, and possibly
even over in Europe, these prizes need to be easily transportable - a meal for
2 at your local gastro-pub near Land's End, whilst nice, may not be of much
value to its winner in John o'Groats!!
Why are we asking for donations, and not just buying prizes from the £15,000
Golden Jubilee fund, voted at AGM 2008? Well, we ARE buying prizes, and
trophies, but we've also bought a f.o.c. raffle
Interstate worth £5000; we've provided every member with a free Golden Jubilee
lapel badge and stickers, and the next Roadholder
will include another freebie of interest and value to the entire membership;
the budget is well and truly allocated, and the appeal for additional GJEC
prizes is not an attempt to cheapskate and save money, it's genuinely to add
even more value to what will already be a great year for members.
So, if you and /or your branch-members can help swell the prize-kitty for the
GJEC, a competition designed not only to provide extra benefits for the
participating members, but by offering inducements to attend events, to provide
more attendees for all those events you, the branches, are putting on - we want
your events to be huge successes, and this is a way we at HQ can support your
efforts.
At this stage, we don't need the prizes themselves - and we won't until
November - but we DO need promises and commitments, so if you and / or any of
your local members are ready, willing and able to ask people in a nice way to
support your club in its Golden Jubilee year by putting up a raffle prize,
anything in the £10 to £100 range (more if they really want!!), please let me
know a.s.a.r.p.
Thanks very much for all your hard work and support for the NOC - we're
determined to make the Golden Jubilee year a really special one for all our
members, and your continued help is a very important part of this.
I look forward to hearing from you."
Snippets from the
Executive minutes
2010 National Rally in
Technical DVD Singles underway featuring Mike Pemberton,
filmed by John Nettleship, team led by Treve Whitford.
Commando Prize Draw . EC officers
will not be excluded, the draw will be made publicly, independently verified,
using balls or tokens and a membership list to be inspected.
2010 International Rally enquiries
progressing for
That’s it for this month,
start planning for
The Small Print
The views and opinions contained within this
publication are not necessarily those of the NOC or of the branch but are
probably mine as I wrote it.
No one accepts any responsibility for
anything, if you have a good time don't say I didn't warn you.
Gino Rondelli