Do you need to send money to the ACU to get a licence in order to ride your bike?

The answer is NO. Get your road bike out for next year and join some of your fellow club members on a few good ride outs.

A good programme is in progress with some choice events.

Nine different museum visits that will include bikes, tanks, planes and all other types of transport (to see that is, not to ride or drive).

Laurie will be doing the photographic challenge, Graham a breakfast run and the Classic Bike Show, and others will be organising a few lunch runs.

We have also offered to help with the organisation of the Owen Tyler classic bike run, previously organised by old club member Brian Kettle.

Some will be mid-week but most will be at the weekend.

A suggestion that we may like to pop over to France has also been made.

Add these to the ones being organised by the British Legion Riders’ Branch at Compton (to which we are invited) and you will have a fairly full programme of events. Couple these to our off-road and social events and we could be active riders every weekend.

Have you friends with road bikes, either modern, classic or vintage? Get them to join us on a run and eventually make Witley as active on road as it is off.

The full programme will be available at the end of the year. Contact any member at the Clubroom on Thursdays for more information.

Bernard Jay

WITLEY’S PREMIER EVENT OF THE YEAR

Tuesday 27th December 2011

• Clerk of the Course: Colin Boniface 07812 924510
• Secretary of the Meeting: Manuel Bernardez Home: 01372 210847 Mobile: 07941 477916 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

The South East Premier off-road event will be held this year on Tuesday 27th December The Day After Boxing Day. Weavers Down, the home of BEC Natterjack, will be the venue. Renowned for its challenging, spectator friendly and all-weather terrain, last year’s event proved to be very rideable even with the heavy snow.

Help for Heroes is our chosen charity with over £1700 donated from last year’s event. Every pound will go directly towards helping wounded Servicemen and women.

We are also taking this opportunity to launch our online membership system, of which we will offer one year’s subscription - FREE called Basic Membership. Open to anyone, promotion runs until February 1st 2012.

Witley MCC membership will now run from one year from payment date, using PayPal as our processor, with the option to yearly auto-renew membership (excluding Basic). Provision is being made to tie this in with any future ACU online licencing system. Ride With The Best! Ride With Witley! - more riding less filling in forms.