NOVEMBER 2026 UPDATES FROM THE SECRETARY RICHARD PARKER

Dear All,

The weather has held up better than expected, especially as I have just had a holiday with my wife in Porto, in the 20s, lovely. Then back to Blighty and a distinctly seasonal 10 Celsius. Oh well much garage work to do over the autumn/winter. Otherwise quite a lot to cover below.

Club nights

The Purleigh Bell, The Street, Purleigh, CM3 6QJ (What3words; enjoys.special.divisions).

11th November; Dave Iszard has arranged for a speaker to come and talk about about coastal flooding and erosion.

9th December; The committee are currently working on plans for a seasonal do; I’ll be in touch once details are finalised.

13th January 2027; Advanced warning of our A.G.M.. Any items for discussion to me beforehand please, otherwise our usual format will be followed.

Committee Post

John Beckinsale has kindly agreed to be the club treasurer for one more year. Please don’t let that stop you from joining the committee to help out with the coming year.

Upcoming rides:

Nothing planned as yet for the rest of the year. Many thanks to Steve Back and John Ruth for the recent run. Arfer Ride here made it to the coffee stop, while others continued on afterwards. I noticed from the Whatsapp messages that it went well and riders got home before it got dark.

All details on the website https://vmcc.net/sections-public/essex/events

New Club Website

The VMCC have had a new provider for the National website for a little while now. The Essex Section website is moving to the same provider so I am currently moving all of the information from the old site to the new address: https://vmcc.net/sections-public/essex/ .

· As part of the ‘cleanup’ I am removing the current ‘Sell/Buy/Advice’ (If you have items on the old site that you still want on the new site please let me know).

· I will transfer over the ‘Useful Links’ section; could I have some feedback about how useful this section has been please?

· I will stop doing anything on the old site from December onwards.

VMCC Health and Safety Meeting

I attended a Teams meeting on 26th October. It was organised by the VMCC Chairman as there have been a few incidents this year involving riders in other sections. The aim was to try and learn from these and apply this to how all sections organise and run their events. Generally I think the Essex Section is in a good place. The committee are considering whether any changes need to be made to our rides risk assessment and the pre-ride briefing. More may follow.

Upcoming Shows

For those that follow modern bikes as well; Motorcycle Live, N.E.C. 21 - 29 November 2026.

I think that is all for now

Best wishes

Richard Parker

p.s. I am pretty sure I have covered everything I wanted to say BUT do expect the corrections email soon!