March 2005 Who’s News 

 

The MSTCV Home Page took a healthy 536 hits during March (up 57 from last month) and has taken 28,744 since April 1996.  I have been getting a bit of feedback from other club’s who use our Great Victorian Roads link. I was shocked to see that I hadn’t updated many of the pages since 2001. Of course, road conditions change fairly quickly so, I have put a lot of work into updating various pages, and adding more content, in particular the Alpine pages – around the Snowy Mountains, Mt Buffalo, Falls Creek, etc. Ern Reeders suggested we needed a link for Tasmanian roads and thankfully then produced a link to the Tasmanian Road Guide as generated by the Hobart Ulysses Club, which I have added to the front page.

 

On a slightly sad note, the Visitors Book has become a target of spam, mainly from casinos, and has been closed down. They must have a robot trawling the net looking for open links. We were being deluged with about 800 lines of code a day which was consuming disk space, a finite resource. The novelty factor of signing into visitors’ pages or guest books is no-longer relevant. Computers are passé.

 

And the big news is we now have our own domain name:  www.mstcv.net.au  The old link will still work but this is the new link you should bookmark. This domain name costs us $45 for 2 years and there are some administration overheads.

 

An outcome of formulating the Risk Management Strategy has been a slight change in the duties of the leader. He/she is now required to gather the emergency contact details from the riders at the start of the ride. You will have noticed that we have been doing this for the last couple of months.

 

Seen at the Social Sip at Mark’s Place on the 2nd March: Ben and Julie Warden, Breht Emmerson and Libby O’Neil, Renzo Cunico, Lyn Duncan, Peter Feistl, Trevor Harris and Barbara Rolfe, Danny Hasnat, Jason Peters and Heidi Johnstone, Martin Hastie, Dave Moore, Ian Payne, Paul Southwell, Tim Walker, Bill Wee and Ron Johnston. 19 people

 

The Club Participant of the Year is based on aggregate points accumulated at 1 point per ride, an extra point for leading or being rear rider, and 1 point per magazine article (maximum 2 per magazine). Attending one or more days of a weekend event scores 3 points for leading, 3 for rear riding duties and 2 points for participating.  After 11 months the scores are: Ben Warden (95.5), Lyn Duncan (77), Ian Payne (68), Paul Southwell (57), Ron Johnston (50), Ern Reeders (49), Breht Emmerson (39), Peter Feistl (36), Joel Haley (35.5) and Dave Ward (34).  No changes other than Breht moving up a few places.

 

As part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations, consideration is being given to purchasing T shirts emblazoned with the Club logo and name. Designs are being sought, or even just ideas for designs. The Club has had various name changes: White Horse Scooter Club, Motorcycle and Scooter Association of Victoria (MSCAV), and recently the MTCV and now the MSTCV. Maybe a timeline on the back of the shirt, logo on the front? Any help from the members would be much appreciated. Of course, these would be limited edition prints. We are thinking black and white T-shirts.

 

Front Cover: Brisbane Ranges BBQ get together in the garage. Back Row from the left; Ron Johnston, Val Jones, Tony Raditsis, Brett Stuart, Ian Payne, Geoff Jones, Paul Southwell, Mark Rigsby and Danny Hawker. Front Row from the left: Andrew McKenna, Melissa Jones, Simon Trubiano, Joel Haley, Lyn Duncan and Cliff Peters. Ben Warden behind the lens.

 

The White Horse Inn is no more. Our old Social Sip venue on Burwood Road Hawthorn has been demolished and is now surrounded by temporary fencing as they begin drilling holes for the foundations.

 

The future of the itinerary card is under review. With the rapid expansion of the internet and its availability, the need for itineraries has diminished drastically. We have cut back on the numbers being printed form 2000 to 1500 to 1000, and even now we have at least 500 left over. Maybe all we need is a business style card with a few words and the web address. Feedback is sought. This period’s itinerary will still be printed, albeit a couple of weeks late.

 

An overnight ride is planned to Mt Buller in April (Sat.8th and Sun. 9th). Dave Ward is putting together this ride and will include the Reefton and Black Spurs, and maybe the Jamieson Road, Mt Buller and return, Whitfield and return. That is just Day 1! Day 2 will include Mt Buller return and then back to Melbourne via Alexandra, Yea and Kinglake West to finish early. Expect around 700 km of hard, twisty road riding. Dave has booked 10 people into the Delatite Motel Hotel. The price is $35 for a single room and $60 for a double. People may have to be flexible if required. To book a room contact Dave on 9563-7705 after 11 am. He works shift work and will be sleeping till then. Places are limited so be quick.

 

After the Mt Buller weekend Dave Ward is selling his GSXR600 K4 (2004) for $9500. It has only done 14,000km and includes polished wheels. Everything else is stock. Comes with RWC, rego and new bike warranty till July 06. For more information Ring Dave on mobile 0413 624 598 (after 11am).