Matt taking part on his Honda C90 Matt wrote the following report on the Duloe Daffodil Dash rideout in which he also rode his Honda C90.
What would we do without him?
Dear All:
Yesterday 22nd March saw what I guess could truly be described as our first true club ride / meet of 2015 with ten club members attending the Duloe Daffodil Dash where we were made very welcome by everyone, and unlike previous years Ralph ensured the bacon sandwiches tea and coffee were still available right up to a few minutes before the off.
Around 26 bikes tiddlers signed up for the Duloe Daffodil Dash ranging from a diesel engine two stroke moped to me on my C90, also joining in the ride was Paul, Rod and Trevor our other members doing their own thing after we set off. The official route took us through some great roads via Staploe, Honeydon, Colmworth, Keysoe Row, Thurleigh etc to lunch stop at The Chequers in Yielden – A fantastic well thought out and planned route thanks to Ralph.
As we had ridden out to the start and the fact that Yielden was on our way home our contingent didn’t complete the return leg back to Duloe but choose to ride straight home instead.
I clocked just over sixty miles on my C90 and like all attending had a thoroughly great day!
Whilst at Duloe Village Hall we couldn’t help notice a “letter of complaint” regarding non pedal assisted machines being displayed and taking part in their rides – this seemed to suggest clubs like ours were not really welcome – I raised this matter by e mail with Andrew Pattle the Editor of IceniCam the journal of the EACC and it was great to get an immediate reply that far from confirming this impression stated
“The EACC welcomes all to its events. Events are, after all, primarily a social event. A rough 'rule of thumb' we use at exhibitions is 'anything under 100cc'; for runs, riders of even bigger machines are welcome as long as they accept that either they'll have to ride slowly, or end up waiting outside the lunch-stop pub until it opens!”
There are some great pictures of the event, including pictures of some of our club bikes and even me entering the Chequers on the C90, these can be found by searching the web for EACC Duloe Daffodil Dash – you can also get more information about the EACC at www.autocycle.freeserve.co.uk whose annual membership is just a few pounds a year – I am now certainly joining!.
For your pleasure I have put a couple of photos borrowed from the autocycle boys on our website in gallery 2.
John.
What would we do without him?
Dear All:
Yesterday 22nd March saw what I guess could truly be described as our first true club ride / meet of 2015 with ten club members attending the Duloe Daffodil Dash where we were made very welcome by everyone, and unlike previous years Ralph ensured the bacon sandwiches tea and coffee were still available right up to a few minutes before the off.
Around 26 bikes tiddlers signed up for the Duloe Daffodil Dash ranging from a diesel engine two stroke moped to me on my C90, also joining in the ride was Paul, Rod and Trevor our other members doing their own thing after we set off. The official route took us through some great roads via Staploe, Honeydon, Colmworth, Keysoe Row, Thurleigh etc to lunch stop at The Chequers in Yielden – A fantastic well thought out and planned route thanks to Ralph.
As we had ridden out to the start and the fact that Yielden was on our way home our contingent didn’t complete the return leg back to Duloe but choose to ride straight home instead.
I clocked just over sixty miles on my C90 and like all attending had a thoroughly great day!
Whilst at Duloe Village Hall we couldn’t help notice a “letter of complaint” regarding non pedal assisted machines being displayed and taking part in their rides – this seemed to suggest clubs like ours were not really welcome – I raised this matter by e mail with Andrew Pattle the Editor of IceniCam the journal of the EACC and it was great to get an immediate reply that far from confirming this impression stated
“The EACC welcomes all to its events. Events are, after all, primarily a social event. A rough 'rule of thumb' we use at exhibitions is 'anything under 100cc'; for runs, riders of even bigger machines are welcome as long as they accept that either they'll have to ride slowly, or end up waiting outside the lunch-stop pub until it opens!”
There are some great pictures of the event, including pictures of some of our club bikes and even me entering the Chequers on the C90, these can be found by searching the web for EACC Duloe Daffodil Dash – you can also get more information about the EACC at www.autocycle.freeserve.co.uk whose annual membership is just a few pounds a year – I am now certainly joining!.
For your pleasure I have put a couple of photos borrowed from the autocycle boys on our website in gallery 2.
John.
