Mini Bike Club - Next meeting - 10th January 2010

The next meeting of the BikeWise Mini Bike Club will be held at Black & Deckers, Green Lane, Spennymoor on Sunday 10th January 2010.
Signing on at 1000hrs for a 1030hrs safety brief / start.

The meeting has been confirmed after a phone call to Black & Deckers (5th January)
All club members please check your email or the club website for confirmation of the event running.....

'Santa Slept In Ride' (Replacing the Christmas Ride for Zoe's Hospice)

The 'Santa Slept In Ride' is replacing the 2009 Santa Ride which should have taken place on Saturday 19th December.

The 'Santa Slept In Ride' is provisionally scheduled to take place on Saturday 14th February 2010.
Details should remain the same as below but please check with the organizers.....

The open Double Decker Bus will again be in the convoy. The forms can now be downloaded from the site. The entrance fee has been raised to £10 per ride and per pillion. This includes a Santa Suit, Bacon Butty and a Brew. The sponsorship amount required to be raised by each rider and pillion is £30.
The timings for the event are as follows;
The length of the route is about 22miles. The time taken will be somewhere in the region of one and a half hours possibly longer depending on traffic.
All those wishing to enter, need to register before the event.
The entry forms/next of kin forms/regulation forms can be downloaded at;
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boundary500.co.uk%2Fdownloads.php&ust=1261649926030000&usg=AFQjCNFfwcOhVBvugTG4l0g_5lHoZEJJ_Q

BikeWise 2010 - Date confirmed......

BikeWise 2010 is to be held at Police HQ, Aykley Heads , Durham on Sunday 25th July 2010.
Keep checking for further details of the event

Easter Egg Run on Easter Sunday, which is the 4th of April 2010

Planning is well under way for the 2010 BikeWise Easter Egg Run. 
Safety Advisory Group applications, preparing to obtain the road closure orders and traffic management plans... that's quite apart from sorting out the Tea and Coffee.
The BikeWise team really do have to start this early to make sure the event can go ahead!

Further details will follow in the new year but please check as the starting point (normally Tesco's) could well be different .... check back closer to the time when the full details will be confirmed.

Mini Bike Club - Photo's online from Xmas Meeting

Photo's are now online from the Xmas meeting (13th December) of the BikeWise Mini Bike Club at Black & Deckers, Spennymoor.
Click on the image below to see the album :

Black & Decker 13-12-09

Mini Bike Club - Photo's now online from the HQ meeting..

Photo's are now online from the last meeting at Police HQ on the 27th September (the air ambulance / Prince Michael of Kent Award one)
Apologies for the delay in getting them done....

HQ-27-09-09

Mini Bike Club - Next Meeting - Sunday 22nd November.

Next meeting of the club is on Sunday 22nd November 2009 at Black & Deckers Factory, Green Lane , Spennymoor.
The event is our first indoor session of the Autumn and will go ahead regardless of the weather :-)

Signing on at 1000hrs for a 1030hrs start.

On a Racetrack..... Not on a road....

Video from the Motor Accident Commission of South Australia....
BikeWise has repeatably over the years put out posters featuring top british riders with wording " Do it like ..........., on a Racetrack.... NOT on a road...
This video features racing accident's on a racetrack, but the run off areas have had some interesting features added and Mick Doohan sums it up nicely at the end...

BikeWise wins Prince Michael International Road Safety Award

BikeWise has received a national award for it's efforts to reduce road deaths and improve relationships with bikers.

The BikeWise team has been presented with a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award.

The honour is in recognition of a string of initiatives including ‘BikeWise’ the event, held every summer since 1995 at police headquarters, ‘BikeWise Training’ – a scheme designed to improve riders’ skills run in conjunction with Durham County Council,

BikeWise MiniBike club for young riders, 6-16yr old and various other events. Each year the motorcycle section stages an ‘Easter Egg Run’. Hundreds of bikers team up with the police in a ride-out from Durham to Darlington and back, delivering presents to children at local hospitals on the way. The motorcycle section is constantly 'engaging' with motorcyclists throughout the region and actively assists the Durham Advanced Motorcyclist group.

The award was presented on Sunday 27th September by Karen Cooke, director of motorcycle safety at MCIA (Motor Cycle Industry Association) at The Great North Air Ambulance Mystery Ride out / BikeWise Mini Bike Club meeting at Police HQ Aykley Heads, Durham.

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Karen Cooke, Director of Safety for the Motorcycle Industry Association presents the Prince Michael Award to some of the BikeWise team.
L to R : Alan Kennedy, Iain Rodgers, Ali Bonar, Mick Alder, Karen Cooke (MCIA), Andy Huddleston, Bob Brown, Gary Ward & Donald Waller

Win the 'Ride of Your Life'at BikeWise 2009

HM Plant Honda Racing (who's principal sponsor is local Hebburn based HM Plant Ltd) will be at BikeWise 2009 with John McGuinness, Steve Plater, Steve Brogan,Josh Brookes,Glen Richards & team Manager Havier Beltran.
They will be selling raffle tickets, (only at BikeWise on Sunday 16th August),for "The Ride of Your Life" - buy a ticket to win a high speed three lap pillion ride with John McGuinness around Croft Racing Circuit on Saturday 12 September.

Tickets are just £10.00 each and include two entrance passes to the circuit on the day of the prize, which is also the practice day for the British Superbike Championship.

The wining ticket will be drawn by John McGuinness at the end of the day.
Please note that should there be adverse weather conditions at Croft the prize will be rescheduled.

All monies will be donated to the HM Plant Honda sidecar riders Nick Crowe and Mark Cox who were severely injured during this year's Isle of Man TT.

Motorcycle News visits the BikeWise team

Double click on the above image to enlarge and read about MCN visiting the BikeWise team

Mini Bike Club - Warden Law 27th July...

After the disappointment of rain and having to call off our meeting on Sunday, we had a great night up at North East Karting at Warden Law on Monday 27th...
Lots of club members as well as non members and some great riding from our youngest to oldest riders... Photo' s are online in the gallery or can be reached by double clicking on the link below....
Remember to get your bikes ready for BikeWise on the 16th August - Check them all over to make sure they're as reliable (and clean) as they can be for the big day...

Mini Bike Club - Meeting 26th July - Cancelled due to Rain......

Hi
Sorry... we're at HQ, everything packed up in the vans ready to go and it's started to rain - heavy....
We're going down to Carrville in case anybody turns up
Apologies weather has claimed the event... Just have to sit at home and watch Rossi in the GP
Warden Law still on tomorrow night

Mini Bike Club - Carrville : Sunday 5th July 2009

Many Many Thanks to all that attended the meeting at Carrville... we were lucky with the weather and had a great day...
Special Thanks to all the marshal's... we couldn't run without you and the time and effort you put into the club is really appreciatted..
Photo's from the event are now online in the Photo Gallery - Meetings 2009.
Cover picture is of new member Paul, who's birthday was on Saturday and he is now the proud owner of a 'Rossi' 46 replica bike....

Warden Law 29th June 2009

Latest photo's from a 'foggy' evening at Warden Law, now online in the Photo Gallery - Meetings 2009. Many Thanks to all who attended - it's vital to make our presence felt at Warden Law in order to keep the facility available to us..

Latest Photo's are now online...

Latest photo's from the last meeting at Carrville are now online in the BikeWise Mini Bike Club website - Photo Gallery... Thanks to John Attle and apologies from ne for the delay in getting my picture's sorted... Remember - Warden Law on Monday 29th June followed by Carrville Park & Ride on Sunday 5th July....

Easter Egg Run photo's now online

Photo's from the BikeWise Easter Egg Run, which was held on Sunday 12th April 2009 are now online. Click on the image above to be taken to the photo albums where you can look at the 2,299 photographs.............
Many Thanks to John Attle & Eddy Serrell of Durham Photographic Society who also came along and took photographs of the run.
Eggs were dropped of at Darlington and Durham Hospitals and the rest were distributed to Bishop Auckland Children's Ward, Hartlepool General Children's Unit, Heathway Respite Centre in Seaham, Sunderland General Children's Ward , The Durham Centre at Aykley Heads and our local special school; Trinity School, Durham.

In addition the money in the donation buckets has been counted and over £620 was donated for the benefit of the Meningitis Research Foundation.
Special Thanks go to Cleveland police motorcyclists and also to the DAM observers who helped marshal the event...
Can't wait till next years run

Easter Egg Run Photo's online

Photo's from the BikeWise Easter Egg Run, which was held on Sunday 12th April 2009 are now online. Click on the image above to be taken to the photo albums where you can look at the 2,299 photographs.............
Many Thanks to John Attle & Eddy Serrell of Durham Photographic Society who also came along and took photographs of the run.
Eggs were dropped of at Darlington and Durham Hospitals and the rest were distributed to Bishop Auckland Children's Ward, Hartlepool General Children's Unit, Heathway Respite Centre in Seaham, Sunderland General Children's Ward , The Durham Centre at Aykley Heads and our local special school; Trinity School, Durham.

In addition the money in the donation buckets has been counted and over £620 was donated for the benefit of the Meningitis Research Foundation.
Special Thanks go to Cleveland police motorcyclists who helped out our own Durham Police team and also to the DAM observers who helped marshal the event...
Can't wait till next years run

Next Meeting - Sunday 26th April 2009

Next meeting (Outdoor) - Carrville Park & Ride on the A690 nr Carrville Interchange (A1M).
1000hrs sign on, for a 1030 start.
Please chack website on Sunday morning if it's wet... in case we have to cancel, before travelling.

Date's for Your Diary...... Warden Law

Agreed dates for mini moto events at the practice track at Warden Law for 2009

Monday 4th May
Monday 1st June
Monday 29th June
Monday 27th July
Monday 24th August
Monday 21st September

We have provisionally put the times down as 5pm - 8pm but their is some flexibility there and we will discuss with Dave Granville who is the guy from NE Karting who will be running the events at the track.
The date's have been entered onto the What's On Calendar on the BikeWise Mini Bike Club website.