Motorcycle club fined

**FzerozeroT** · 22nd February 2009, 13:52

We in Hamilton are quite aware that those in Nelson hold the honour of being the oldest incorporated motorcycle club in New Zealand

The hyphen in motor-cycle was added somewhere along the line and features in the club emblem (the four foot wide painted one in the hall

) and is the currently registered name of the club, quite nice to get a complete copy of the first set of rules, the companies office only has two pages on file.

We have another ten years before our centennary and are hoping to have a lot of old news articles digitised before then, we have been locating articles for a few years but it will need many many hours of work to capture them all..

**dipshit** · 22nd February 2009, 14:15

Originally Posted by nodrog

or just hold Alt and type 0163

Alt 156 does it as well. (on the num pad)

**NordieBoy** · 22nd February 2009, 16:04

Originally Posted by FzerozeroT

We have another ten years before our centennary and are hoping to have a lot of old news articles digitised before then, we have been locating articles for a few years but it will need many many hours of work to capture them all..

A word of advice for the centenary.
Start preparing now

**pritch** · 25th February 2009, 15:20

Originally Posted by Ixion

It was rather difficult to collect a speeding summons (no tickets back then, they hadn't been invented) back in those days.

No radar for one thing, never saw a snake on the open road, and most bikes could easily outrun a snakemobile anyway (snakemocycle was another matter).

But also, the snakes was pretty reasonable, and didn't want all the hassle of issuing a summons unless it was serious. Don't frighten the horses, keep it down around old women and children, and it was all good.

Shit oh dear, you must be really old or have lived in a lovely quaint place.

It wasn't like that round here in the 60s. My AJS 350 would have likely had difficulty in losing a Zephyr, or whatever they were using then. I made a number of court appearances before getting a bit smarter. (Well, a little bit?)

The cops had to ride a bike for a year or three until they got to drive a car in the day time. Some had no idea how to ride a bike when they started, and it was all too readily apparent...