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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hoony on March 18, 2010, 04:56:41 pm
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Thinking about going to My club tonight, not that active these days but its my 31st year as a member and it got me thinking what is the oldest continual running club in Australia?
my club The "Dandenong Motorcycle Club" or DMCC started in 1931 and will celebrate it's 80th year next July.
considering the ACUV (now MAV) started in 1928 i think the DMCC may be one of the oldest in Vic (not sure when they affiliated with ACUV) so lets just stick to club formation.
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You could be right on the money there Hoony, Sporting started up around March 1932.
Rob.
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my quote ;D on old oz mx tracks
Attended SummerCross last night up at Coastal Motorcycle Club,Henderson Park Perth the club was Incorporated in 1919 and first main mx event was in 1920.
Whilst browsing through the perpetual trophies I came across the club Champion/High Points and read the names of P Hopwood 76/77 and Rod Gilchrist in 2000 and 2002 .
These are two of VMXWA A Grade riders.
Leisk was on the same trophy. ;D
cheers
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My old club, the Tamworth Motorcycle Club was established in 1952.
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The Coastal Club have been around a while...as you said Alison 1919....but ....the Goldfields Club in Kalgoorlie were formed in 1914.... :o
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st george mcc (nsw) 1915
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The oldest club in Australia would have to be the Ulysses Club.
Average age would have to be at least late 60's which should easily make them the oldest. :P :P
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My original club, Sydneys Annandale-Leichhardt was formed in 1908 making it 102 years old this year. I reckon it'd be one of the oldest, if not the oldest in Australia. Arch rival St George club kicked off in 1915.
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Not as old as others already mentioned but for interest sake. Bankstown Canterbury MCC formed in 1947, merged with a dying Wiley Park MCC in 1951 becoming Bankstown Wiley Park MCC, was a dominant club on Short Circuit until the 80's. Still running, I think.
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For what it's worth, Bendigo Motorcycle Club was formed in 1925, and has been at Ravenswood recreation reserve since 1933, and is still going strong.
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For what it's worth, Bendigo Motorcycle Club was formed in 1925, and has been at Ravenswood recreation reserve since 1933, and is still going strong.
well there ya go, Bendigo looks like the oldest in Vic. i didn't know ravo started that early, it would have to be oldest Track in OZ.
Thanks Puppet96 ( Brian ?)
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hi
i have been a member of st george mcc off and on since 1970 it is an old club
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brisbane motorcycle club est i believe 1926/28
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COLAC MOTORCYCLE CLUB
BALLARAT ROVERS
LEVIS CLUB
These clubs are still going, but not sure when they started, l do know my father was a member of the colac and my brothers where, when they where young l have photos and they are in there 60`s.
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One of the clubs i'm in The Harley Club Of Victoria started 87 years ago in 1924 and still going.At one stage they held race meetings across all disciplines nowadays we mainly concentrate on dirt track.
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Rovers est 1952
60 years next year.
Still have a few of the founding members attending meetings, rallies etc.
Viper666
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Did Toowoomba just have its 100th or 80th. I can't remember but someone on here will know 'cause they just had a big piss-up.
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nest Month the Dandenong Motorcycle Club in Vic celebrate their 80Th year.
its a big Gala event, apparently even "Mr Squiggle" will make a guest appearance. ;)
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Rovers est 1952
60 years next year.
Still have a few of the founding members attending meetings, rallies etc.
Viper666
Keith Jolly would be one of those founding members and he still races today what a legend
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Tomorrow (14th August 2013) will be the 90th Anniversary of the formation of the Western Australian AJS Motorcycle Club. A meeting had been called prior to this inauguration by Mr M. Leverington and 33 people attended, all riders of A.J.S. motorcycles. There was sufficient interest to lead to the club being formed on 14th August 1923. Interestingly MWA (then W.A.M.C.A.) had only just held their initial meeting on 31st July 1923 at the Bohemia Hotel (wherever that was), AJS joining the association at its second meeting. Happy Birthday AJS MCC. (Paul Church)
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Sorry Folks, Think i'm gonna top that by the looks. Our club [MOMCC] Manawatu Orion [in nz this is] had its 100th in 2011 which [just looking it up] is the last time i rode--must do something about that. But i see they say the Nelson Club is older than that--Golly Gosh. Hope there's lots of pics that might find their way onto the internet from early days of 'all' these clubs--be a great to see.
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i see that was mean't to be aussie clubs sorry--got carried away [with old age].
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I went to the Canterbury clubs 100th anniversary in Christchurch in 2010. I seem to recall that the oldest Aussie club might have been my old club, Annandale -Leichardt in Sydney, formed in 1908 making it 105 years old. In the early to mid seventies it and Willoughby were the strongest motocross clubs in NSW. They're both just shadows of their former greatness today.
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The Toowoomba club celebrated 100 years in June 2011.
And it's powering on.
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this year north brisbane junior motorcycle club
will be 40 years old
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My Aboriginal mate Scamper was learning over my shoulder reading this thread, when in his classic dry style commented. "Hey bloke we coulda have beat all you bloody white-fella by 40000 bloody year .....if only we had invented a bloody wheel mate ... :o."
Gotta love people that can take the piss out of themselves ;) :)
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My Aboriginal mate Scamper was learning over my shoulder reading this thread, when in his classic dry style commented. "Hey bloke we coulda have beat all you bloody white-fella by 40000 bloody year .....if only we had invented a bloody wheel mate ... :o."
Gotta love people that can take the piss out of themselves ;) :)
:D :D :D
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not the oldest, though makes the top ten in Oz 8)
Toowoomba Qld 1922
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/vmx247/tooowoomba1922_zps365f12de.jpg) (http://s146.photobucket.com/user/vmx247/media/tooowoomba1922_zps365f12de.jpg.html)
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Pic must be before the hill at Echo Valley was even made ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Merrylands District MCC started circa1947. Threw in the towel in the '70s. We still get together what's left of us each November at Smithfield RSL. Most members competed in all phases of M.C. sport.
It would be interesting to know who would be the oldest rider still competing in m.c. sport with the longest running club, having continuous membership with that club.
Cheery cheers to all. pancho.
Often off line but hopefully rarely "out 'o lne"!
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It would be interesting to know who would be the oldest rider still competing in m.c. sport with the longest running club, having continuous membership with that club.
Not sure if you'd count on the membership as the over 65 club members would probably be "Life Members" and don't belong to VMX only clubs.
Plenty of older riders in T&E and the Vinduro clubs though :)
Merry Christmas young Pancho :D :-* ;)
http://forum.ozvmx.com/index.php?topic=10854.15
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It would be interesting to know who would be the oldest rider still competing in m.c. sport with the longest running club, having continuous membership with that club.
Not sure if you'd count on the membership as the over 65 club members would probably be "Life Members" and don't belong to VMX only clubs.
Plenty of older riders in T&E and the Vinduro clubs though :)
Merry Christmas young Pancho :D :-* ;)
http://forum.ozvmx.com/index.php?topic=10854.15
Thanks! VMX247. I will not be racing probably till maybe the annual Charity meet at Nepean Aug '14 due to a couple of medical setbacks, A pinched nerve in the neck plus dramatic eye surgery in January. Damn! I'm only 76, I want to datch up to Ron Beaver, 83 and still goin' like a rocket! By the way, those 40 plus year olds do get checked for Glaucoma! No history in my family till me! cheers!
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It would be interesting to know who would be the oldest rider still competing in m.c. sport with the longest running club, having continuous membership with that club.
Old Bill Watson would have to come close wouldn't he?
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Cessnock Motorcycle Club helds its 90th Anniversary dinner last month. The club was started in 1923. They still compete every year for perpetual trophies that go back a long way.
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The oldest rider still competing is probably Don Newell. The club he is a member of Brisbane MCC have also been around for a while. They were among the original clubs that made up ACU of Qld. There is a 75 year badge I'm got somewhere, so 100 years must be under 10 years away.
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The oldest rider still competing is probably Don Newell.
I think you'll find that Bill Watson from WA is a bit older than Don. I think Bill's 84 but Brian Watto will fill us in with the correct info or Col Metcher will know from his Super Senior files.
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I think Don Newell has the longest continuous ACU licence, first got it at 15 and has held it every year since....so I was informed.
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I think Don Newell has the longest continuous ACU licence, first got it at 15 and has held it every year since....so I was informed.
Thats one way to tell, provided L.C.Bs. can check records of comp. licences history, I fear that like a lot of other record keeping since everything is on computer now most hard copy stuff has been destroyed.
cheers pancho.
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MQ tell me they have all the old records "somewhere??" >:( >:( >:(