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Christmas Club Night 2025

The Christmas Club Night in 2024

We’re planning to make the last Thursday before Christmas on the 18 December a really special club night starting at 8pm at the BCSA. It’s open to all Branch members and their partners and there will be a complimentary buffet of festive food and Christmas music. The bar will be open as usual. We will be holding a raffle with some great prizes. So come along and enjoy a yuletide evening with fellow Branch members.

Note that Goring Lane is now open again which makes it easier for those coming from the M4 direction.

If you are a Branch member, you should have already received an invite like the one below by email.

If you are coming, you should already have replied to the email telling us so and whether you are bringing a partner. If you haven’t done so already, please do so and let us know and we may still be able to fit you in.

It will be a fun evening. Click here to see some photos of last years event.

Quiz Night 2025-Results

We had a good time at our annual quiz night in November. Bob Cromwell once again served up a set of brain-teasing questions and there were some good prizes to be won.

Quizmaster Bob Cromwell in action at the annual branch quiz

Congratulations to the winning team.

The winning team collecting their prizes

There was initially a tie for second place, but Bob was prepared with some tie break questions which resulted in a clear second and third place.

Second place team after the tie break collecting their prizes
Third place team after the tie break collecting their prizes

Congratulations to the winners.

See below for a video showing highlights of the evening.

Bring & Buy Sale – 2026

We will be having a bring and buy (aka autojumble) sale for motorcycle related stuff at the BCSA on Thursday 15 January 2026 at our Thursday club night, from 8pm to 10pm. So if you have any: motorcycle clothing, parts, tools, accessories or books that you no longer want, bring them along.

Just turn up with your stuff and lay it out on a table in the bar and see if anyone wants to buy it.

Or just come along and browse through what is on offer. You might just grab a bargain.

Food, drink and endless chat about motorbikes is also on offer as on all other Thursday club nights.

See here for photos of our 2025 Bring & Buy Sale

Nacelle Report – Nov 25

Below is the report published in the November 2025 issue of Nacelle, which covered Branch activities in September 2025

First off, a personal thank you to Digger Warwick for riding with me to Bavaria, where we met up with our Tiger Explorer riding, globetrotting hero, Jörg Balle, in his hometown of Sonthofen, the southernmost town of Germany.  Digger, you’re a great wingman.  Oh, that damp Belgian pavé, so slippery when wet!  I think Digger’s waterlogged boots finally determined that he needed new ones, which he duly purchased in the Held Superstore, otherwise he would have been better off on a barefoot adventure.

Digger and Bibendum off-roading with Jorge Balle in Southern Bavaria

We held our Autumn Bike Meet at the BCSA on the last Saturday of September and had some great bikes in attendance.  Well done to all who helped at the event and, of course, all those that brought their bikes.

A well attended Autumn Bike Meet at the BCSA and a great selection of bikes

Ride-outs have continued twice weekly, such has been what seemed like an endless summer.  One midweek ride led by King Graham to Hamble-le-Rice saw a great route threading our way through the Hampshire countryside.  A stop to buy fish & chips and onto our briney destination where the Hamble converges with Southampton water, as calm a picture as you could wish for, so no chance to go surf crazy.  Why not join a ride-out on any Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday, check out the Runs WhatsApp Group for details.

An ambush of Tigers at the water’s edge

Now don’t miss Bob’s famous quiz on 6th November!  I’m sure you’ll have to exercise those brain cells to win one of the fabulous prizes and perhaps even be pictured on these very pages.

Question 1: What’s the hidden theme in the report?

Ride fast and safe.

Bibendum

Branch AGM 2026

The Branch committee at the 2025 AGM

The 2026 Branch Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on:

Thursday 12 February 2026 at 8.00pm

It will be held at the BCSA as part of our weekly club night. If you arrive around 8pm, you can get a drink from the bar, get a seat and sign in before the formal meeting starts at 8.30pm. All Branch members are welcome to come to the meeting where we review the last year, present the accounts, elect a new committee and discuss plans for the coming year. Branch members can vote, ask questions of the current committee, put forward propositions and join in the discussion. This is an opportunity for all Branch members to have a say in the plans for the Branch during the next year.

People standing for the committee must be full members of the Branch and must be nominated by two other full members at any of the Thursday club nights leading up to the AGM on the nomination sheet that is on the notice board by the bar.

Come along and have your say in how the club is run. Consider how you may be able to participate more in club activities.

See the following links for more information.

Current Committee Members

Committee Roles

Do you think you might like to be a committee member? See here for more information on how to get involved and join the Branch committee.

Ride to Jackeroo – Oct 25

Our bikes parked up by the Thruxton sign.

We had a Sunday ride to Thruxton with a difference. We had a new start point, meeting at Thatcham Football Club. It was also our first ride-out to the Jackeroo Cafe in its new incarnation, which is as an Airstream trailer inside the circuit serving food together with tables inside a tent next to it. We were led on scenic ride from Thatcham to Thruxton circuit, pausing briefly to pose for a photo by the Thruxton sign and then heading to the cafe. Some of our members stopped off for beer and lunch at the Flower Pots brewery while others made their way home. Here are some photos of the ride.

Ride to Rawles – Oct 2025

We had another Saturday ride to Rawles Motorsport Open Day, an event that we have been to a number of other times. Rawles is a restorer of Austin Healey’s and there Open Days are always interesting, with displays of some of their immaculate restorations as well as seeing around their workshops and the processes they go through in restoring cars. The event also raises money for the Naomi House Charity.

This year, Collin filmed the ride there with an 0n-board camera, which you can watch below.

No-one on the ride took photographs at the destination this time, but you can click here to see photos last year’s ride to Rawles.

Riding Route 66 – photos

Mick Bennett’s presentation to Branch members in October 2025 about his epic ride on his Bonneville from Chicago to Los Angeles along Route 66 had a good turnout and held everyone’s attention for an hour. Mick talked us through a series of photos starting from loading the bikes into a shipping crate in the UK and all the sites on the way to the finish in Los Angeles. Everyone seemed to find it interesting and enjoyable.

Here are some photos of the event.

Photo from Mick’s talk
Photo from Mick’s talk
Mick presenting

Berks on Nacelle Front Cover

The front cover of the October 2025 issue of Nacelle

For the second time this year, the TOMCC magazine Nacelle has featured one or more of our members on the front cover. This time it was Branch Chairman Nick Swain on his 1969 Triumph Bonneville together with Regalia Officer Chris Williams on his Triumph America with Branch member Derick Nobbs as a spectator in the background. The photo was taken during the Branch’s appearance at the Swallowfield show in August when around a dozen members rode a parade lap around the arena and then talked about their bikes and the TOMCC. The photo illustrates a key part of what the TOMCC is all about: Club members having fun together on their bikes. We get to do a lot of that with Club nights every week, ride-outs often twice a week and around a dozen other events a year.

Branching Out – Old Bike Gathering

This article is about the Old Bike Gathering, also called the Old Motorcycle Gathering, which is our summer show for bikes that are more than 40 years old, and is held every year. This describes the show held in June 2025 and first appeared in Nacelle, the Triumph Owners Motor Cycle Club magazine in October 2025.

Click here read the article in full.