Matchless Owners Club Visit

A Flying M Visit

If you have been following the “Crimson Field” Nursey has got Trusty back again and I wait to see what adventures there will be in coming episodes. I do hope the bike stays out of the wraps. A few Mondays' ago the Thames Ditton group of the AJS and Matchless owners club paid us a visit and it was good to see some of the old faces again. They turned up on Matchlesses! (no mention of the classic BMW here). Velocette MSS man also an AJS and Matchless man had the Museum team get his bike out and we all had the joy a seeing and hearing the MSS running at the back of the Museum. Once again, when the experts who know their bike, I end up with lots of information about how the model was developed. The Museum is always the place where information flows free.

Coming more up to date I was at the monthly club night of the Wey Valley Advanced Motorcycle Club for a presentation from Lembit Opik the Public Relations Representative for MAG and he gave a very informative lecture about the successes and failures of MAG along with how the public image is changing also if you need to influence your MP as most constituences have at least 7500 motorcyclists and when this is pointed out to an MP they tend to start listening! There are campaigns going on all over the country to try to make motorcycling as enjoyable as possible. He pointed out that when MAG has been successful no one seems to notice. If you want to be more proactive about your biking have a look at the MAG website.

After the meeting I was talking to some guys who are members of the PanEuropean club and they are always looking for events to go to, they already know about the Museum, but not about the British Motorcycle Charitable Trust so I gave them loads of application forms for their members and told them about the benefits of joining the trust. There are a number of machines loaned to the London Motorcycle Museum by them, among them is the 1937 B24S Sunbeam and we have a new one just arrived this week a 1911 BSA that you can also see it on the LMM Facebook page.