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Goldwing Light Parade Hotels filling fast

The organisers of the Blackpool Illuminations Goldwing Light Parade report that hotels are filling fast. The main event Hotel the Warwick is almost full, with adjacent hotels all receiving enquiries and bookings. Full details of all the event  hotels can be found on the Goldwing Light Parade accommodation page. Its going to be a great weekend.

Media reports on Bikers tribute ride to Wootton Bassett.

The media has posted numerous video reports on the bikers tribute ride through Wootton Bassett in support of the people of the Wiltshire town who come out to pay their respects to the fallen heroes of Afghanistan. Its great to see positive news regarding motorcyclist.  Approximately 15,000 bikers registered for the ride and donated a minimum of £5.00 each to the charity “Afghan Heroes” you can guarantee the total at the

Few changes to website features

You may not have noticed but Nigel has made a couple of slight changes to the features in the right hand column of the home page. The first change he made was to the archive list, which was becoming far too long with monthly archives showing all the way back to the very first meeting in February. He has re figured the archive list to appear as a drop down box with a choice of monthly archives visible from there. You simply click on your

Knutsford Honda Chrome Crazy Weekend

 Well I don’t think there is any chrome left at Knutsford Honda. I have never seen such a chrome crazy frenzy of wanton debauchery and credit card bashing. You could see it in their eyes as soon as they entered the showroom, Barry and Jimmy lost it immediately and carried off half the accessories only to find they couldn’t fit their goodies into the bike, most people ended up with a purchase or two, most of them bargains. There was a

Incredible rear view motorcycle helmet

I came across this incredible rear view motorcycle helmet whilst trawling through various web sites, don’t know if you have seen it before. The idea is such a simple one based on clever periscope technology with fancy 21st century shaping of the mirrors. Think about it, as soon as you put a helmet on your head you reduce your peripheral vision and spacial awareness of things around you, about the worst thing you can do on a

GoldWing Light Parade Venue Announced

The Organisers of the Blackpool GoldWing Light Parade have announced the new venue for the Event which is to be a whole Crescent of Hotels and Apartments on South Shore Promenade. All the participating Hotels are offering discounted accommodation and bar prices and they are coordinating their entertainment programmes over the weekend to suit the Event too. They are also offering access to their facilities to non-residents, so the Organisers will be incorporating better facilities for Wingers who live in the area or wish to stay elsewhere.

The location of the venue is bang on the Southern start point of the Illuminations with enough room to muster the Parade in safety and offering direct access to and from the Parade Route.

Details of all hotels and accomodation rates can be found on the Goldwing Light Parade Accommodation page of the website.

Fleetwood Tram Sunday on Track for 2011

Fleetwood Tram Sunday, the ever popular transport festival which takes place every summer in the town of Fleetwood has been cancelled for this year. Organisers took the decision due to major tram works in the town centre and a general lack of funds. Fleetwood Chamber of Trade promise the event will return even bigger and better. For the full Fleetwood Weekly News story read “Bigger Tram festival on track for 2011″.

Federation gathering at Kirkby Lonsdale

The Federation of United Kingdom Goldwing clubs, of which Goldwings North West is a member, are hosting a friendly weekend of Goldwings, ride outs and entertainment. The venue is the Rugby Club at Kirkby Lonsdale. This venue has a long term realtionship with biker clubs who use the facilities of the site during the Rugby closed season. Last year we held a very

March Meeting Moved

Please note that our scheduled March meeting will now take place one week earlier on the 21st March. This is due to a couple of events that members want to attend and take part in, Dont forget!  We will also have the Ultraseal installation guy at this meeting, so those who want to add maximum protection to their tyres can do so on the day. Remember he will also supply Ultraseal to car, caravan, trailer and motorhome tyres, so not just your Goldwing.

Royal British Legion RBLR1000 explained

Goldwings North West and Royal British Legion member Adrian Cresswell explains the Royal British Legion RBLR1000 Iron Butt rally and what it means to him and the Royal British Legion. The full post can be found under future events 

GoldWing News 2012

Member Stuart Ormerod has placed a very interesting article entitled “Kumamoto – Birthplace of the 2012 model Goldwing” on his personal Goldwing Blog commenting on the future of the new 2012 Honda Goldwing and Honda’s new production plant at Kumamoto Japan.

Trikes and the Chairman’s Curse………

Those of you who went on the Sunday Dinner Dales run last year may remember a little incident where our then Chairman, Bob, had a small incident with Dave Bayliss’s trike…For those of you who weren’t there, Bob had hitched a lift on the back of Dave’s trike down to where the rest of us were waiting. Things were going well until the dismount, when Bob lost his footing and suddenly disappeared from view. This was bad enough, but