There were two meetings to report on. The first was a Wash-up/Debrief gathering held on 29 February 2012 to discuss the Pukekohe Festival and the Hampton Downs meeting of a week later, and the second was the standard committee meeting held on 7 March 2012.

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This report covers two meetings held on 7 Dec 2011 and 11 Jan 2012. There was little new raised at either meeting in that the majority of the discussions that took place centered on preparations and arrangements for the forthcoming Pukekohe February Classic Festival.

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There were only two apologies for an otherwise full committee meeting under the chair of Peter Lodge. The committee received and accepted correspondence relating to MNZ’s “Volunteer of the Year” award for Monty Ray along with other general correspondence.

Saturday saw the start of the Junior TT race. The conditions were almost perfect. Due to earlier breakdowns, there were a few less than there should have been to start the race. read more...

Due to the fact that there was a last minute shift from the usual Wednesday night to Monday night, 3 October, and that some members had traveled overseas, the committee only just made a quorum of eight members with Peter Lodge in the chair. Minutes of the September meeting were accepted and discussed. Yvonne Piggott had agreed to help out wherever possible and has already updated the Register mailing list. Thank you Yvonne. There is a problem with any attempt to link our Website listings with those shown on Race Manager but this is being worked on. Re the Website, James McIntosh has done a great job setting it up but we now need someone to run the day-to-day input of material. Peter Lodge is looking into this. Rhys Jones is happy to continue editing the Megaphone, and Rob Cochrane is doing nicely on the advertising and promotional side of things. Phil Harrington has been approached to work with Rhys Jones to put together a shed/personal profile type presentation on individual members for publication in the Megaphone. So watch out. You could have Phil suggesting you open out with your inner most secrets one day

The second meeting of the new committee took place on 7 September 2011. There were 12 members present with President Peter Lodge in the chair. Three apologies were received.

Business arising from the minutes of the previous meeting included a reminder for members to give some active thought to a 5yr/10yr plan for the Register, the need to be more proactive in welcoming new members and acknowledging those who had been with the Register for 20 years plus, the need to formalize arrangements with the NZPCRA re their more intimate involvement with our future events, and the need to explore the future and development of the Megaphone.

Your new committee held its first meeting on 3 August 2011 with new President, Peter Lodge, in the chair. Including Peter there were 13 members present with apologies received from the remaining two.

Matters discussed that might be of wider interest included a review of the AGM Minutes along with reports on finance, legal matters, race meetings, technical, the website, promotion in general, and Festival 2012.

The fine weather of Labour weekend was eclipsed by the scorching performances in both the Senior and Junior TT races. Run over 15 laps of the Hampton Downs circuit the races attracted New Zealand's best Classic racers. In the Senior a great battle ensued between Andrew Stroud, eventual winner, and Hayden Fitzgerald who retired after running wide on lap 12. In the Junior Ginger Molloy diced with Andrew Stroud eventually winning by just over half a second.

Current NZ Superbike Champion Andrew Stroud swapped his 180hp Suzuki GSX-R1000 for an Auckland built 500cc McIntosh Manx Norton with less than a third the horsepower, to win two Australian Historic Championships on September 4th and 5th, plus a third title on a sister 350cc model.

by Evan Peqden - Waikato Times

Veteran Gordonton Superbike star Andrew Stroud has taken a ride down memory lane in Australia and carried off three of that country's national classic motorcycle racing titles.

Hamilton pensioner Hugh Anderson was a local hero in the Dutch city of Assen in the 1960s.

The 74-year-old member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, who won four world grand prix motorcycle road racing titles in the 1960s, yesterday headed back there to ride in next weekend's Centennial Classic TT Assen 2010.