Announcements about Branch activities
Berkshire Branch members won two prizes at the TOMCC 75th Anniversary. With over 1000 people there and representatives from Triumph Owner’s Clubs across Europe, they were up against some very tough competition. Jim won Best 1980s Bike and Greg scooped with Best Triumph. Congratulations to them both. They were presented with their prizes by Norman Hyde, TOMCC’s patron.
Jim won Best 1980’s bike with his 1983 Thunderbird.
Greg won Best Triumph with his1965 Thruxton.
We have updated the list of Branch Tools that members can borrow. See here for the latest list and an introduction to the set of tools that the Branch holds that members can borrow and how to go about borrowing them.
In 2024 the Triumph Owners’ Motor Cycle Club will be 75 years old and on 17th-19th May 2024 we will be celebrating the event with a party at the historic Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb venue set in the Malvern Hills of Worcestershire.
We’ll be attending and will have our Branch stand and a display of members bikes in the historic paddock. A lot of our members plan on attending and its also a chance to meet other TOMCC members and branches at a great venue.
There will be a bar, food, and music/entertainment. There will be demonstrations taking place on the hill of special Triumph machines from throughout the ages.
Its going to be a cracking weekend !!!
See here for more details on this event.
We are having a Lunchtime Bike Meet on Sunday 14 April 2024 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.
We will be holding a collection for Thames Valley Air Ambulance.
A wide range of food and drink will on sale in the club house.
See here for details of the venue.
See here for pictures from one of our previous Lunchtime Bike Meets.
For many years our Branch Badge had been a green oval with silver writing showing the Triumph logo from the Meriden era in the centre with the name of the Club and Branch around the outside. During the last few years a number of people in the Branch had started using the Club badge (ie: the black shield) with the word “Berkshire” underneath as an alternative Branch badge.
During 2023 some people in the Branch started talking about having a completely new design for our badge. There was a lot of discussion around a number of different ideas for the new badge. Various designs were produced and shown around at our Thursday night club nights and discussed. A few articles of clothing were printed with various designs, shown on club nights and worn on a few rides. One design emerged as the clear favourite and was presented to the members at the 2024 Branch AGM who voted to adopt it as the new Branch badge.
The new Branch badge incorporates the stag and oak from the Berkshire county flag and the shield and scroll from the TOMCC Club badge with the bottle green and silver colours from the old Branch badge.
The badge has no writing on it other than the TOMCC Club motto (ie:” “nulli secundus”, meaning “second to none”), which is a departure from the old Branch badge, and this was a subject of some discussion. The reason we chose to have no writing on the badge itself is that the badge can be shown adjacent to the name of the Club or Branch in different ways depending on the context. This is not unusual. For example, while some car marques incorporate their name in their badge (eg: Ford) others (eg: Mercedes) do not. Our new badge can be combined with text in different ways to be either portrait or landscape, while on its own it is roughly square (ie: equal width and height).
On our website, on our Facebook page and in Nacelle the badge will be already be adjacent to text that clearly identifies it as the Berkshire Branch of the TOMCC. On clothing, it might appear with the word TOMCC or Berkshire or the Club and Branch names in full. Here are some example below of different ways the badge could appear with writing.
Last year we raised £165.00 for the Thames Valley Air Ambulance at our bike events and other events where we had our Branch stand. Their service helps protect, save and revive lives in emergency situations. See here for more details about what they do. See the letter of thanks we received from Thames Valley Air Ambulance below. We plan to continue to support the Air Ambulance service through 2024.
Last year we raised £110.00 for the National Association for Bikers with a Disability (NABD) at our bike events and other events where we had our Branch stand.
The NABD assists thousands of disabled people to enjoy the freedom and independence of motorcycling. They do this by enabling people to get the essential adaptions to their machines which will allow them to take their rightful place in the motorcycling community. See here for more details of what the NABD do. See the letter of thanks we received from the NABD below. We plan to continue to support the NABD through 2024.
The 2024 Branch Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held on 15 February 2024 and elected the committee for the year.
See details of the new committee here.
Happy New Year to all our members. We had around 100 activities together last year. Have a look at our Review of 2023 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 2024. There’s a lot more being planned and we will add them to the events page as they get confirmed.
This event is not organised by Berkshire TOMCC, but we will have a stand at the show. So come along and say hello if you are attending.
