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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

Chrome Crazy Weekend

Meet on Saturday 13th March at Poplar 2000 services, commonly known as Lymm services, just off junction 20 of the M6. Plan to arrive and be ready to go at 10:00 am prompt.

Knutsford Honda are throwing a Chrome Crazy Weekend at their brand new Honda dealership. There will be plenty of Chrome GoldWing bargains on display from Kuryakyn, Add-On, Big Bike and more in their dedicated GoldWing accessory showroom, with discounts up to a massive 50% off. There will be refreshments

Lesley Halley Award

At the recent AGM, as your outgoing chairman, I proposed that our club should have an award of some description that could be presented by the organising committee to a member or couple who had, during the previous year, contributed more than, become involved with, or generally driven the club forward in a positive manner, above and beyond what could be expected, and asked for your approval and a suitable title for the award.

Federation Website updated

Now that I have stepped down as Chairman of Goldwings North West I intend spend time promoting and updating the Federation of UK Goldwing Clubs website. My plan is to use the Federation site to keep affiliated clubs up to date with events and happenings via the posts section. Anything that is newsworthy from any affiliated club will be posted there for all members to see and comment on.

Dover Dunkirk Prices

From Graham Coleman -The latest pricing for Dover Dunkirk Ferries may be of interest to trike owners, We are travelling with a bike and a trike to France. I contacted Norfolk Line as their web site was down and not able to book on line. I tried to book the trike as a motorcycle and side car, I was told that if any axles are in line (unless a Trailer) then the vehicle is classed as a 3 wheel car. He then explained that he had just passed his bike