2024 January Club Meeting

The January 2024 Meeting was on Sunday, January 28 at Pappas BBQ

We got 2024 off to a great start at Pappas BBQ. We had fine weather with sunny blue skies, which was perfect for riding, and there were 36 motorcycles in the parking lot. There were over 50 people attending the meeting and everyone enjoyed the great selection of vintage and modern machines.

All three 2023 club officers have renewed for 2024, and they were in attendance at the meeting.
Chris Parry, President
Jane West, Treasurer
Richard Bowman, VP and Rallye Chairman.

President Chris opened the meeting by thanking our hosts, Pappas BBQ, and introducing new members and guests. We welcomed new member Aleix Pomar, who rode on his BMW K1600.

Chris asked us to keep long-standing club member Mike Fairchild and his family in our thoughts. Mike sadly passed away in December as a result of a road traffic accident (not motorcycle related). Mike hosted meetings many times and will be sadly missed. Chris also reminded us that it was one year ago, on his way home from the January 2023 club meeting, that we lost member Lance McGehee in a motorcycle accident. We were grateful that Lance’s brother, Donovan, joined us for this meeting to help us remember Lance. Chris reminded all of us to be extra careful on the roads.

We switched to new business and talked about the upcoming annual Hill Country trip on April 19-21. We will be staying at the Historic Leakey Inn, as usual, and Cathy Ramsey has kindly agreed to coordinate cabin assignments. Cathy asked for cabin requests via email only. Send requests to ntnoa@ntnoa.org which will be forwarded on to Cathy.

The Hill Country trip is the same weekend as the All British & European Car Day (“ABCDE”) at the Bath House at White Rock Lake in Dallas. Chris asked for volunteers (who are not going to the Hill Country) to take and show their British/European motorcycles, and to take the Norton raffle bike and sell tickets. The raffle bike is currently stored at Big D Cycle. Anyone helping out will be rewarded with free raffle tickets. Contact Chris, Jane, or Richard Bowman if you can help, or email ntnoa@ntnoa.org.

We have plans to take the raffle bike to different dealers around the Metroplex who are friends of the club, and who have kindly agreed to have the bike on their showroom floors for two week periods. We’ll have a QR code on display with the bike for people to buy tickets online. We really need volunteers to deliver the bike to the dealers. Please step up if you can – the bike raffle is a significant source of revenue for your club, and we need your help!

The LOP Rallye will be on October 4/5/6 in the same location as last year – Yellow Rose Canyon. This will be a milestone event – the club’s 40th anniversary rallye. By the way, Chris was able to report that the 2023 rallye did not lose money! In the past the rallyes have typically cost the club money and we were determined to break even or make a profit for the club last year. Chris thanked Jane West and Richard Bowman for their focus on the bottom line.

Several club members have bikes for sale – take a look at the classifieds on ntnoa.org/classifieds.htm for more information.

Upcoming events were discussed:
• Ride for the Cure will be in February. Contact Russ Foster for information.
• Stanley Miller told us about the Cherokee Chapter of the AMCA’s 40th anniversary road run. May 21-23, 2024, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

• Jay Tynes announced an upcoming trip to Japan in May for vintage British motorcycle racing. Location about 60 miles north of Tokyo. Contact Jay for more information.

Congratulations to Stanley Miller who was the lucky winner of the 50/50.

The next club meeting will be on Sunday, February 25 at Moto Liberty in Addison, TX.

Richard Bowman