As you know your new mag is out & congratulations to Guido for another excellent read, he tells me that the hard copy will be posted after Easter. This made me think do I want the hard copy, well no, the Association has spoke about a possible reduction in annual subscriptions each year if you had the magazine electronically, worth considering. We have all seen what is happening to print media in Australia the costs are considerable & people these days have embraced tablets with a fervour, personally I read my newspaper on my IPad daily (the best 60th birthday present ever). More information on the Indian Reveal, click on the link below

Indian Reveal at Daytona

The Sitting Bull Rally was on over the week-end with 17 bikes (9 Indians) and 21 people it was enjoyed by all, although the Motel was average in Albury with a powerpoint arcing out in the night, then after a room change a large cockroach on my pillow, for awhile I thought it was a chocolate! Anyway the venue will change next year, Peter Kime deserves the hard luck award with his 1938 Chief deciding that it liked the trailer to much, he was sidelined by a new dud battery.The rides, set out by Leo Clausen were excellent thanks Leo, he even arranged great weather, I believe in Melbourne it poured

CPS (Club Permit Scheme)Renewals  The IIRA has been advised that the AOMC (Association Of Motoring Clubs) has received many reports from member clubs of CPS holders NOT receiving their renewal notices or receiving them late. This has resulted in the vehicle becoming UNREGISTERED. This means that the driver of the vehicle is liable for a large fine if found to be driving the vehicle while the CPS is not valid!   We understand that VicRoads allows only a short period of grace for renewal.  If this is exceeded then the vehicle is considered unregistered and will need to undergo a fresh Roadworthy Test before reregistering on the CPS.VicRoads advise that the process of issuing CPS renewal notices has been “contracted out” and that renewal notices are now typically sent to owners about 4 weeks before expiry (in contrast to fully registered vehicles where renewals are sent out about 6 weeks before expiry).Clubs are strongly reminded to alert their members that responsibility for registration of a vehicle is with the owner and that they should check their renewal dates. Go check your Club Permit renewal dates NOW and mark your diary to chase up the renewal around 3 weeks PRIOR to the expiry – it is YOUR responsibility to do this! If an owner has not received their CPS renewal notice within say 2 weeks of expiry then they should take the receipt of their previous payment to a VicRoads office and request that a new renewal notice be generated on the spot. The AOMC has received reports that although the owner may have made a payment and received a receipt, the payment has not been processed in the CPS database and vehicle is recorded as unregistered hence no renewal notice has been generated for the following year. Note that changes of address need to be advised to VicRoads for all vehicles and driver’s licences. As the CPS vehicles are recorded on a separate database from the fully registered vehicles and driver’s licences these address changes need to be separately advised to VicRoads for the CPS vehicles. The above issues have been formally raised with VicRoads by the AOMC.You have been warned – what a shame that the public servants that WE pay for with OUR taxes seem incapable of performing the work we pay them to do.

As news is thin on the ground till next week when the new Indian Motorcycle engine is released the first since the famous “bottle cap ” engine in 2002 I have a few other odd photos. The collage of various tanks was done by Guido Allan and has appeared on Facebook, the next two are interesting being lubricants for the man & machine (don’t mix them up) the next picture shows a young George Hendee as a amateur champion bicyclist, man this guy has won a few medals & in those days with no drugs as the modern champions in America have been recently accused of taking. Luckily George’s need for speed set him on the road to making our beloved Indian’s, speaking of which the board track racers used to have lots of crashes with a number of fatalities at high speed, fortunately this group seem to have survived although the Indian is pretty worse for wear.

Ian Rhook & the Camperdown lads pulled another fantastic week-end off with good weather except for 20 minutes on Saturday we had a memorable Rally, roll-on 2014. This was well attended with over 30 people plus for awhile on Saturday, Sunday was taken up with a visit to the historic clock tower to have after climbing 100 steps to learn & watch the workings of this magnificent old piece of technology thanks to the caretaker John.Hopefully we will have a full report coming in the next few days