WELCOME

You are visiting the West Coast British Motorcycle Owners Club (BMOC) web site. Feel free to browse the calendar for upcoming events, read technical articles or plan to attend one of our regular club meetings.

MEETINGS

The General Meetings have returned to the Burnaby Lake Rugby Club at 3760 Sperling Ave - please join us, 2nd Thurs each month 7.30pm (click here for map)

Members will receive an email announcement beforehand

We also have a Chapter in the Okanagan and they meet regulary. Email Mark Bird for location and time, plus info on ad-hoc group rides. Venues are rotated.

Sunday Breakfast Meetings

Casual get-togethers have resumed over breakfast, Sunday morning 8.15 AM at JIM'S CAFE located at 6th Street and 5th Ave, up-town NEW WESTMINSTER. Informal rides depart following breakfast (riders/weather permitting)

NOTE - Jim's is Closed until May 31 - meet at 6th Street Cafe on next block.

NEWS & COMING EVENTS

General Meeting MAY 9, 7.30pm Burnaby Rugby Clubhouse

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SHAKE DOWN RIDE - SAT, MAY 11,2024, 9.30am

Meet at Fort Langley Fort Parking Lot for a ride leaving 10.00am out to Chilliwack to present Gill Yarrow with his Lifetime Member Award. Fill tank reqd. Come early for coffee and tire kicking (Nearby SABA Cafe and BLACKSMITH Cafe serve the best Coffee).

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CLUB DUES ARE NOW $30.00/Year

Renew now

If you haven't renewed by now, you will no longer receive a GV in the mail.

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ABFM at Van Dusen Gardens May 18th

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2024 BMOC CALENDARS STILL AVAILABLE

Now reduced to $10.00 each, plus $5 postage (for up to two) Contact Treasurer for your order. Also available at meetings.

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EXEC FOR 2023/2024

Nigel Spaxman - president

Erin Reddy - vp

Erin Reddy - secretary

Elizabeth Trevisan - Treasurer

Review Committee: Todd Copan, Allyson MacDonald, Mya Davidson, Jim Underhill, Derek Dorrenstyn, Lionel King, Rick Freestone

GV Editor - Shona

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GOOD VIBRATIONS NEWSLETTER

GV EDITOR Shona - contact [email protected]

We are no longer posting our Current Issue of GV on-line, only past issues.

FEBRUARY 2024 GOOD VIBRATIONS

DECEMEBER 2023 GOOD VIBRATIONS

SEPTEMBER 2023 GOOD VIBRATIONS

JUNE 2023 GOOD VIBRATIONS

MARCH 2023 GOOD VIBRATIONS

DECEMBER 2022 GOOD VIBRATIONS

SEPTEMBER 2022 GOOD VIBRATIONS

AUGUST 2022 GOOD VIBRATIONS

MAY 2022 GOOD VIBRATIONS

FEBRUARY 2022 GOOD VIBRATIONS

MEMBERSHIP FORM

For new members & renewals, please download this form, print it out, fill in your details then send to the Treasurer by email or mail. Payment can be made by Interact payment or by cheque. Membership is $25.00 per year from April 1 to March 31

Membership Form

Members will be kept up to date of events by Email as usual.

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2016 VMS SHOW - CTV Interview with BMOC Member Lyle Whitter and his Ariel Square 4 here

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BMOC's GV PAST - In recognition of our 30th Anniversary year, we are posting a selection of past newsletter trivia, humour, articles, ride reports etc. Check out our illusive writer Carphead's Column and cartoons from past member Karen Stephenson. CLICK HERE

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BMOC - the Beginnings....

RARE PHOTO sent from Author Bill Snelling (click on above thumbnail for a large version)- "Aurora to Ariel - the Motorcycling Life of J. Graham Oates", taken 1932 British Motorcycle Club. It was confirmed that this is Fraser Street, close to British Cycles - Could that be old Carphead and his buddy Elbow Greifs at the back?

Here is a link to another picture from 1932

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