Midday Express 2025

Meet at Ampol service station at 11-30 am for a ride to Thornton arriving at your pre-booked Rubicon Hotel/ Motel 1362 Taggerty-Thornton Rd Thornton 57 732251 please mention Iron Indian riders, then an evening meal at the Hotel. Sunday morning return home after breakfast. Please reply if your interested in attending and don’t forget to book your room.
This event has been “saved” by members at your last meeting, it was going to be scrapped so to  ensure it’s continued please support it, we have rejigged it to a more user friendly time and stretched it out, also located close to Melbourne 120 klms or under 2 hours.. all details on the calender all click on the sidebar listing this event

 

Amazing Accessory and are electric motorcycles new

New membership bonus

The committee has passed a new resolution that any brand new members from January on will only pay the annual membership fee of $60, the new member joining fee is now redundant. This means you can switch into our association without the penalty of an extra cost with the added advantage of B.E.A (British, European & American)  up to 1976 including Indian’s of any era, Christmas has come early!

IIRA and Club plate new permit changes

 

A new change in policy of red plate permit vehicles in your Association have been reviewed, being we are now under certain conditions letting either cars/Vans/Ute’s on our register. So the certain conditions  are :

1 You must have a red plate motorcycle already with our Association

2 You must have a current RWC for the vehicle at the time of presentation for your application

3 You must have been a continuous member for at least the last 5 years

4 You are only allowed ONE vehicle only, either a car/ute or van on this scheme 

 

2023 Christmas Party

All details on calendar 3rd December RSVP we need this for catering,  BBQ lunch and soft drinks provide by the association FOC. A short ride to the event or meet us at the venue

New Members

This year with our change to the constitution introducing B.E.A to 1976 has started to see a growth in new members averaging one a month so far unsurprisingly most are Triumph owners but also BSA and Norton as well. It’s kind of history repeating itself as the original importers of Indian Milledge Bros in the twenties started the Indian-Triumph club so a full circle there, it seems that both brands share a strong bunch of enthusiastic owners so thats good. Some things will alter such as the Smoke Signals magazine will not be solely based on only Indian subjects, Martyn Goodwyn your editor has already agreed to reproduce some of the articles he produced in international OVR magazine he edited for many years as one of the most professional e-mags around so that will help in keeping interesting subjects in the magazine. The picture above is a Harley Knuckle engine in a Triumph Trophy frame, weird.

Same as us, and Crazy Horse fun

Yes the Classic Club of Vic has the same rider etiquette as us so we are not unique please acknowledge these at all rides or rallies that you attend. Speaking of which, the last weekend’s Rally seemed to be a resounding success, but for your webmaster pictured in Wangaratta Hospital at the half way point to the rally I was struck down with severe cramps and vomiting caused by Kidney stones, the first time and the worse pain ever, after 6 hours they released me and my son drove me home, so no rally for me, but Mark Barthelmie tells me the weather was great and the ride organised by Gary Hogg was fantastic I’m looking forward to it already.

Indian Pony

I’ve never seen one of these but one has turned up in Australia it looks like a Honda Z50 and I can only suppose it was a dearer product hence its rarity. The Crazy Horse Rally is on this weekend at Corryong and its been our only Association rally this year so man I’m looking forward to it.

ONLY 2 WEEKS TO GO

Two Weeks to go to the Crazy Horse Rally in Corryong , and am I looking forward to this the best part of Victoria to explore with a local Gary Hogg leading the ride on roads he has ridden for over 50 years, to top it off the weather forecast looks superb. This will be our only rally this year and considering we used to run four a year there has almost been a drought! You can still book at the Mountain View Motel right now  02060761766 the Association will be putting on a free BBQ on the Friday night so thats some of your subs back this year already please mention the Iron Indian riders so you can get a room close to your fellow members

The good old days

CHAOS ON SYDNEY ROAD