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BRANCH NEWS

The biggest change was the North point Taihape to Kimbolton. Eighteen bikes, MARLBOROUGH MUSINGS
of the 4 points was changed to the 4 so e with illions en oyed the day and Greetings everyone from the top of the
Square Supermarket in Coromandel picnic lunch at the Tangiwai Memorial. south. It only seems like a couple of
township from the traditional Houhora Thankfully the weather was favourable, wee s a o sent the last arti le in. e
point in the Far North. Given the Auckland and e eryone en oyed the ride. have been lucky enough to have two long
lockdown boundary, Coromandel was as The branch ride for October was run as weekends in a row in Marlborough with
far north as you could go at the time. The art o the oints ally with a rou labour day and then Marlborough anni-
other points are Lake Ferry in the South ride to the Lake Ferry pub for lunch (and versary and we were pretty lucky with the
ood fish hi s ahotu in the est drawin their first o er ard . round weather as well making for some great
and Te Araroa in the East. Big thanks to 28 bikes, including a couple of CanAm riding. Some of the Marlborough team did
the businesses who tolerated motorcy- yders oined in a reat ride south the annual run to Pohara for the Marlbor-
clists drawing cards for the poker run. ia an a aire and the estern side ough anniversary weekend where lots of
Another big thanks to the branch commit- o a e airara a. o e o the bran h disgraceful behaviour generally happens
tee, especially our secretary, for all the members and supporters made the trip in along with a lot of fun.
effort that went in to organise and run this a couple of cars. It was good to see Les Despite the whole Covid thing we have
very successful event. adda ord ta in the o ortunity to oin been very lucky here in level 2 still able to
The prize-giving at the Bunnythorpe Tav- in despite having some health issues that et out and about. e are still doin the
ern saw around se enty fi e eo le en oy stopped him riding. After a good feed of aturday o ee ornin s at the unway
drin s and e ellent fin er ood be ore the fish hi s it was o ho e ia artin- a oodbourne where we ha e a ood
spot prizes were awarded by drawing en- borou h and on bush oad. turn out and our club nights are still prov-
trant numbers from a hat and the results Unfortunately, COVID is still impacting ing popular and the Thursday rides are
of the poker run. The winner was Geoff e ents with the re ent lassi e ister going from strength to strength getting
Lovegrove from Manawatu Ulysses with ra e eetin at anfield bein an elled bigger numbers (but not over the people
a s ade ush. e too away the to ri e and now the annual Coast to Coast char- li it .
of $750.00 in cash. The branch acknowl- ity ride being postponed. Hopefully the e are still lannin or our annual
edges the support of the local motorcycle summer will be a good one and we can toy run on Saturday 11th of December,
and automotive retailers, with some great et out and en oy the sunshine war fin ers rossed we don t ha e to an el
prizes being provided by AFC, Evolution temperatures, dry roads and light winds. due to Covid lock down. I have seen many
Motorcycles, Courtesy Motorcycles, City Be safe on the roads. events being bigger than usual and I
Honda and Supercheap Autos. Murray Cross #7908 thin it s be ause we aren t able to tra el
The September branch ride was a Manawatu Co-Ordinator around as much and people are doing
route set by olin orsley that more locally so hopefully the same hap-
encompassed some of his favourite pens with our toy run.
roads. These included the backroad from Later on that day we are having our
Hunterville to Fordell, the Paraparas, Christmas party at the car club rooms
Fields Track and the country roads behind at Omaka where roast on the run will be
re arin the east or us to en oy and fin-
ish off a busy day. No doubt Santa will be
there findin out who has been nau hty
or nice.
ell that s about all ha e or now so
en oy the a a ine et out on the bi e
where ever possible, stay disgraceful but
most of all stay safe out there
Cheers
Tim Wills #9600
Marlborough Branch Coordinator

NELSON NIBBLINGS
Our Nelson branch has adopted and im-
le ented the ta line ide i es a e
un oo out or ea h ther but o id
has put a whole new set of tensions into
maintaining our tagline.
e ha e a inated e bers who
endorse a science and evidence-based
approach to Covid and vaccinations and
members who gather information from
alternative sources and choose not to
be a inated or their own reasons. e

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