Category: Past Events

Advertising that was produced for events which have since happened.

Brooklands Motorcycle Day – July 25

Brooklands Museum are holding a Motorcycle for all motorcycles on 6 July 2025. Come and admire a staggering legacy of motorcycling at Brooklands matched with a vast display of the best of modern motorcycles. Motorcycle enthusiasts, no matter what they ride or from what era, all are welcome to come and enjoy the spectacle, food stalls and live music.

Test Hill will provide a unique opportunity to see how the pre-War race bikes fare against today’s super-machines. Always a crowd-pleaser, the Hill was constructed in 1909 to test acceleration and power and has been in use for events since the Museum opened. Bookings will be open on the day to allow people to take their own bikes up Test Hill during the session.

For more details, click here.

Summer Bring & Buy Sale- 2025

Our winter time bring & buy sale was very popular, so this year we thought we’d do one in the summer as well. This will give us more space as we can be outside on the grass as well as inside in the bar.

So on Thursday 17 July 2025, we will having a bring and buy sale (aka autojumble) sale for motorcycle related stuff at the BCSA 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 or on the lawn in front of the building 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 Bring & Buy Sale in January 2025.

Thruxton Retro -2025

Branch members at Thruxton by the Retro event poster

We will have our Branch stand with a display of bikes all weekend (Friday to Sunday) at the Thruxton Retro from 20-22 June 2025. So if you’re planning on coming to the event, drop in at our stand and see us. This looks like being a great weekend of fun.

See here for more details of the event from the organisers.

Brooklands Veteran & Vintage Motorcycle Day – April 25

Brooklands Museum are holding a Motorcycle Day for pre-1940 motorcycles on Sunday 6 April 2025.

Enjoy a day filled with pre-1940 motorcycle displays, Test Hill ascents (weather permitting), race starts, demonstrations, 1920/30s style Gymkhana events and talks! Enjoy live music by The Knightingales vocal trio.

All pre-1940 motorcycles are welcome to join.

For more information on this event, click here.

If you are a Berkshire TOMCC member and want to go, there is a discount available. Contact us to obtain the “promotional code” for the discount.

TOMCC AGM 2025

The venue for this year’s TOMCC AGM

The Annual General Meeting of the TOMCC CIC will this year be held in Rotherham in Yorkshire on 13 April 2025. The agenda and details of the propositions to be discussed at this years AGM together with the financial accounts and the minutes of last year’s AGM are published in the April 2025 issue of Nacelle. There are some important issues to be decided at this year’s AGM, so all Branch members are encouraged to read the information in Nacelle. Several members of the Branch are planning to attend the AGM this year, but all full members of the TOMCC are welcome to attend and are encouraged to do so. See here for more details of the AGM on the main TOMCC website.

John Bottomley – GP Racing Development

500cc GP Race Bikes in action

John Bottomley will be giving a presentation to the TOMCC Berkshire Branch and invited guests on Thursday 6 March 2025, starting at 8pm at the BCSA.

In his presentation he reviews the 500ccc world championship from 1947 until the introduction of the MotoGP format in 2002 and traces the winning machines and the increase in engine performance.

He shows how Ducati fits into this picture and picks up the academic background of the key Ducati designers and the design aspects they introduced. He concludes with a look at as much of the technical detail as he has gleaned regarding Capirossi’s 2002/3 MotoGP bike.

In addition, he answers the question of why they had to put GPS on the bikes. I didn’t know they had. Did you? Come along and find out.

Lunchtime Bike Meet – 3 May 2025

One of our previous Lunchtime Bike Meets

We are having a Lunchtime Bike Meet on Saturday 3 May 2025 from 11am to 4pm at the BCSA. It’s a great opportunity to meet other riders, see their bikes and have lunch and a drink . All motorcycles and riders are welcome. 

A wide range of food and drink will on sale in the club house.

A collection will be taken for Blood Bikes , which is a charity which uses volunteer bikers to deliver vital supplies like blood to hospitals. See here for more information about Blood Bikes.

See here for details of the venue.

See here for pictures from one of our previous Lunchtime Bike Meets.

Annual General Meeting 2025

The 2025 Branch Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on:

Thursday 13 February 2025 at 8.30pm

It will be held at the BCSA as part of our weekly club night. The AGM will start 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. Do you think you might like to be a committee member?

See the following links for more information.

Current Committee Members

Committee Roles