With all the changes at your recent AGM we have quite a few new committee members who are enthusiastly ready to help your Association. All the new committee delegates are listed along with some of the originals in the Contacts Area of this website. Basically this is one of the first years since our inception 6 years ago that we hav’nt had to ask for nominations so I can only hope this shows a group of enthusiastic office bearers which are there to help you enjoy your time spent on our calendar events. The thing is the committee requires positive feedback and this can be done by face-face,email or fax no one on the committee is a paid member, we are all doing to job for the “love of it” so please bear that in mind, remember if there is a change in direction & sometimes it won’t suit all members, but as this is a democracy the majority will have the final say, as has happened in the past. Our Charter in the first few lines says we are all here to have “Fun,Fun,Fun” and that’s what its all about.

Been all all over Europe this last month and until today hav’nt seen a Indian in any shape or form, well today I heard two in Stockholm and rushed over for a photo while they were stopped at traffic light near my motel. They were slightly reserved till I pointed to my Indian belt buckle unfortunatly the lights changed before I could say much after I have a couple of Indians as well, still they look like they are being used regularly

With Chris Horner announcing the Gypsy Tour in 2018 following the old Hume Hwy I can’t wait, obviously it won’t be like the road pictured above pictured over 100 years ago as it was well sealed by 1950 in Victoria anyway, NSW wasn’t but by the early sixties was. The problem with the Hume freeway today is that’s it’s possibly the most boring piece of road around I remember going up the old highway with my parents as a youngster and although the cars were slower and hotter in summer there was always a chance for a stop and a cold Tarax along the many little towns it passed through and that’s part of our fabric that’s missing today. So needless to say I’m booking pronto as the cutoff at around twenty souls is all that Chris will cater for, if you are thinking of going contact him,it will go to Sydney and come back on the Princes Hwy so quite a number of miles for your Indian and probably be in March for about 12-16 days , think about it.

A couple of years ago, I had a “Eureka” moment and bought a large rubber mat with lots of holes in it, the seller at Rare Spares assured me that they would trap small spares eg:collets in the holes and hours or days would be saved, enthusiastically I parted with my well earned sheckels and dragged it to beneath my work bench. This seemed to work initially except for the majority that bounced off the rubber and still disappeared under the bench, “Murphy”s Law” dictated like toast landing butter side down that 75% of my collets still went into a parallel universe annoying to say the least, recently I was in Ireland and you can see why the Irish are like they are and “to be sure to be sure” they must loose lots more than collets.

Garry Hogg recently asked for more Harley material as above the last time I saw him, well possibly the two best H-D’s I’ve seen the first cures all the engine problems of the venerable “Boat Anchor” by fitting a Honda 4 engine, this doesn’t alter the Honda as they handled like a “camel with a broken back” so no worse. But for the Harley its a better machine all round, the Topper would be a good bike to attend a HOG owners run on with your son and matching caps!