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Monthy Update – February 09

A typical meeting at the Beafort Park Hotel

A typical meeting at the Beafort Park Hotel

Our February meeting started with a nice touch – visitors included members of GoldWings North West and a representative of the formative GoldWings North Yorkshire Club. –   Looks like we have started a ball rolling here!

With the weather being a little on the damp side and the mounds of salt still visible on the roads I was quite surprised to see two GoldWings actually parked in the car-park. These Wings are obviously well cleaned and polished by their owners when they return home, as the salt on the road will soon make a meal of all the chrome if given the chance.  I sincerely hope that rain will wash the salt away over the next few days so that I can get my trike out.

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29th Wirral Egg Run – Sunday March 29th, 2009

Meeting  together at the start

Meeting together at the start

It is that time of the year again when we have to start arrangements to attend the Wirral Egg Run. This years event is the 29th such run and it is hoped to be the biggest yet.

Members from this club have attended in previous years and seen it grow from a smallish event into the huge spectacle it has become.

The Run has become a highlight for riders of all machines in the North West and it is a day of fun for the riders.

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Road Salt – The Silent Killer

A gritter spreading it's deadly contents

A gritter spreading it's deadly contents

It is about time that this weather went away and the council stopped gritting the roads with that ‘horrible stuff’ they use now.

The gritter-wagons seem to be spreading a new type of salt that sets just like concrete if you give it a chance to dry on your bike. Even when still wet it seems to have the consistency of jelly and does not want to wash off the bike, or the car.
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Trip to Inaugural Meeting of the GoldWings North West

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Bob Summers almost smiling

It would appear that these Northern Englanders don’t have toast with their breakfast! – how do I know?  Because in the famous words of Max Boyce – ‘ I was there’.

Jan and I headed up the motorway at 8am this morning to see if the hospitality of The Swallow Hotel was all it was made out to be, and apart from the lack of toast with my breakfast it was just so. This breakfast was eaten along with Pete and Diane of our club and some forty odd others who had decided to listen to what was being offered by the new ‘GoldWings North West’.

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