2023 March Club Meeting

March 2023 Meeting on Sunday, March 26 at CrashedToys, Dallas

We wrapped up the first quarter of 2023 with two events. Our March monthly meeting on Sunday March 26, and we had a special visit to Eurosport Cycle on Saturday, March 25 (more on that below). The weather was perfect for the entire weekend!

The monthly meeting was in conjunction with the Jon Neuman benefit auction which started at 9:30 am, and carried on all day. CrashedToys did a fine job hosting the auction, and it ran very smoothly. Many thanks to the NTNOA team who took the raffle bike and equipment to and from the CrashedToys location, and also the volunteers who provided all-day coverage selling tickets. The raffle bike is a beautiful 1974 Norton Commando, and the drawing will be during the 2024, 40th anniversary rallye.

The meeting part of the day started at 2:00 pm, and was well attended with 29 motorcycles and close to 50 members and guests. Chris was the MC for the official part of the NTNOA meeting, and started by thanking CrashedToys for their generosity in hosting both the benefit auction and our club meeting.

Chris shared the great news that Jay Pope’s health continues to improve! He also ran through upcoming events:
• March 31–April 2, 2023: Texas Fandango in Fredericksburg, TX (hosted by the Cherokee Chapter of the AMCA)
• April 20-23: NTNOA Spring Hill Country Ride in Leakey, TX
• April 18: Vintage Track Day at Harris Hill Raceway in San Marcos, TX
• April 19: Rocksprings, TX
• You can just go to Leakey, just go to the track day, or do the track day and ride from San Marcos to Rocksprings to Leakey. Cathy Ramsey is our excellent accommodation coordinator for this event. See ntnoa.org for more details.
• April 30: April club meeting in conjunction with the British Emporium British Car & Bike Show in Grapevine, TX
• May 7: All British & European Car Day, White Rock Lake, Dallas, TX
• May 21: Distinguished Gentlemen’s Ride, Dallas, TX

The NTNOA LOP Rallye in our new location at the Yellow Rose Canyon near Mount Enterprise, TX will be held on September 28–October 1:

• Details are still being worked out, but the dates are firm. Block your calendars and tell your friends to do the same.

• We will need door prizes for the Rallye, and Chris asked everyone, especially those with connections with local businesses, to ask for contributions. To avoid asking a business more than once, please email ntnoa@ntnoa.org to let us all know who has been approached for prizes.

The members at the meeting shared several recent bike purchases and bikes for sale. Reminder that club members can take advantage of the “classified” section of the club website on ntnoa.org. Contact our webmaster, George Tuttle at george@ntnoa.org if you have a bike to sell.

Carmine LiDestri is a professional photographer who runs Visual Image Media, and he attended the meeting. He has extensive experience photographing motorcycles which is a great way of presenting them on-line for sale, etc. Carmine offered a motorcycle studio photography session for half price for NTNOA members. His number is 214.335.3819.

The Eurosport Cycle event on Saturday March 25 was in conjunction with an amazing display from the Triumph Stunt Team. Eurosport invited the club to attend (thank you Tony and Martha!) to sell raffle tickets.

Many raffle tickets were sold over the weekend which really helps club funds. A very big thank you to all the club volunteers on Saturday and Sunday who made the ticket sales possible!