Triumph Day – Sammy Miller- 3 Aug 2025

The TOMCC is organising another Triumph Day this year at Sammy Miller’s Motorcycle Museum on the 3 August 2025 from 10am to 3pm. This will be the third year and it’s been massive each time. Arrive for 10am and you’ll likely get into the courtyard. Prizes will be given at 12:30 followed by a photo shoot of the winners. The South Hampshire TOMCC Branch and Destination Triumph will have stands on site.

Berkshire Branch members on a ride out to a this event previously

See here for more pictures of a previous ride out by the Berkshire Branch to this event.

See here for more details of this event from Sammy Miller.

Summer BBQ – 3 July 25

We’ll be having a BBQ on Thursday 3 July 2025 for Branch members and their guests instead of the usual weekly club night starting at 7.30pm. It will be held outside at the BCSA where we normally meet. There will be a small charge per head per serving for BBQ food. Drinks will be served and paid for at the bar as usual.

There will be no subs collected on the night.

We will be hold a raffle with some fabulous prizes to be won.

During the evening, we will judge all the members bikes in the car park, and we will present the Steve Butcher Memorial trophy for the Best Branch Members Bike to the owner of the best bike in the car park. So if you want to be in with a chance of winning this prestigious award, come to the BBQ on a bike.

The winner at our 2024 BBQ with the Steve Butcher Trophy and his winning bike

Our Summer BBQ in 2024

The Old Motorcycle Gathering – 2025

The Old Motorcycle Gathering, our show for old bikes, will be held this year on Saturday 28 June 2025  at the Burghfield Community Sports Association (BCSA), James Lane, Burghfield, RG30 3RS. The show will be from 11am to 4pm. This is near junction 11 of the M4 and is where we hold our Thursday club nights. Click here to see the venue on a map.

This show is for all bikes classed as “Historic” vehicles by the DVLA, which currently means bikes manufactured before 1985. The show is open to all marques, but bikes must be ridden to the show. Prizes will be awarded for Best Foreign, Best British and Best Triumph as well as Best in Show.

There is no entry charge.

If you don’t have an old motorcycle, you can still come along on a modern bike. Just leave it in the car park while you look at the old bikes on the lawn.

A wide range of food and drink will be on sale at the bar.

Click here to see pictures from our Old Motorcycle Gathering in 2024 or read this article from Nacelle Magazine about our show.

See the follower flyer about the show that you can download, print and share.

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.

Supporting the Blood Bikes

Representatives from Blood Bikes at our Lunchtime Bike Meet

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.

Letter received from the local Blood Bike group.

View more details of the local Blood Bikes organisation. View photos from the Lunchtime Bike Meet.

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.