Letters

Dear Pete & friends at WAM,

I've been spending the New Year with my Dad near Inverness in Far North Scotland. During the long winter nites I've been looking thru' pix from Indonesia which I took in the summer. I thought the attached photos of a lovely 1956 BSA 350cc motorcycle, on sale for around £2000 may bring a few memories back to the more mature Club members!

It caught my eye as I was riding around Denpasar in Bali on my Honda Tiger 200cc. It was on sale at a dealer and had been enthusiast maintained. One of the pleasures of being in Indonesia is seeing the vast array of unusual and old machinery, from all around the world, kept going by skilled, innovative mechanics - who can turn their hand to manufacturing spare parts as necessary.

I kicked the machine over and it made a lovely rumble. The bike was really heavy for a 350 machine and felt as if it were hewn from solid metal! I could imagine that the handling and braking would be dubious, but then you would not buy this machine for its performance. [Dijual means For Sale].

Happy & safe riding in 2007

Cheers

Tim

Dear All,

I don't know how, but I managed to obtain a pass from
Chris today. I was really poor ( or so it felt) but he
decided to pass me.

I would like to pass on my sincere thanks to all the
observers and trainee observers (you know who you are)
who have given their time, skill, advice and
friendship over the last few months. I really do
appreciate your the effort you all put in.

See you at the monthly meeting

Many thanks

Allyn C

Looks like I'm going to have to change my opinion about our scouse / renegade / anal/bullying / sometimes old / sometimes semi-bald / always right observers, as it seems most of us have passed our tests so far.

It's a bit like "I'm an associate get me out of here!" not neccessarily pleasant at the time and sometimes hard to swallow, but when you look back at the experience they aren't a bad bunch.

Thank you to you all.

Regards

Mark (not scouse/slightly renegade/anal (hmm)/nearly old/not bald but grey/definateley always right)

Hi Allyn,

very much relieved I didn't let the side down. Chris wasn't as scary as all the stories said he was! A bit of a pussy cat really.

He actually said it was a good ride out and he enjoyed it! Just commented on a couple of missed over-takes, but over all he had no problems with my riding. All down to the excellant advise and encouragement of our excellant observers.

Well done Allyn Tania