Announcements about Branch activities
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.
We collected £188.68 for the local Blood Bikes group at our Lunchtime Bike Meet at the BCSA in Burghfield on the 3 May 2025. Many thanks to everyone who came and donated. The Blood Bikes group serves the Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Berkshire areas and is staffed by volunteer bikers who ferry vital supplies out of hours between hospitals and other medical centres.
Below is a letter of thanks from the organisation which gives more information about what Blood Bikes do and how the money collected is spent.
View more details of the local Blood Bikes organisation. View photos from the Lunchtime Bike Meet.
Bulldog Triumph will be having a season launch event from 10am to 4pm at their shop in Wokingham on 5 April 2025. We’ll be going there and expect to have our stand and a few bikes on display. See here for more details from Bulldog.
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 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.
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.
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.
Richard Wheadon, the TOMCC’s Machine Registrar and a recognised expert on establishing the authenticity and date of old Triumph Motorcycles will be giving a presentation about his work to the TOMCC Berkshire Branch and invited guests on Thursday 30 January 2025, starting at 8pm at the BCSA.
Richard runs the Triumph Motorcycle Dating Service for the TOMCC. If the DVLA does not have records for an old Triumph motorcycle, they will issue an age related registration plate for it if the owner has a certificate from the TOMCC. This means that Richard has dealt with hundreds of application for these certificates over the years and has spotted many examples of “fakes”; bikes that purport to be a model or year that makes them more valuable than they really are. This is a subject which will anyone with an interest in classic motorcycles will find fascinating.
Happy New Year to all our members. We had around 100 activities together last year. Have a look at our Review of 2024 to look back on some of what we got up to during the year. We are planning more fun for next year. Have a look at our Events page to see those that are already confirmed for early 2025 including a Thursday night Bring and Buy Sale and a talk on racing machines. There’s a lot more being planned and we will add them to the events page as they get confirmed. Remember, we continue going on rides throughout the winter and meeting socially every Thursday night. When the weather warms up we expect to have our Lunchtime Bike Meet, our Old Motorcycle Gathering and visit other local shows with the Branch stand and lots of other events like we did this year. Keep on rolling.
We wish all our members a Merry Christmas. There will be no Club night on Boxing Day so our next Club Night will be on 2 January 2025. Our last Club of the year was a real cracker with more than 60 members enjoying an evening of seasonal food and fun together.
There are more pictures of our Christmas Club Night here. We had a great year with lots of activities together and out on our Triumphs. See here for a look back at 2024.
See you next year.
Keep on rolling!
