LE Velo Club AGM 2023

 

LE Velo Club AGM 2023

 

It is an event that I planned to go to but in all the years I have been a member of the LE Velo Club I made a special effort this time and made the journey. I have been a member since 1968. That’s fifty five years! If my memory serves me correctly anyway an awfully long time and I have only just managed to go and what a treat it was. I drove up with Gita in the Toyota because it is easier driving and arrived at, what seems a very anonymous entrance but beyond there is a whole world of fun. So many people I became reacquainted with many I had not seen since the Stafford Show when I took my LE up for the display that year which was 2013. There are many that failed to get here this year but new faces join the club and it is so good to see. We enjoyed tea and coffee and biscuits on arrival under a gazebo to shelter us from the sun at Peter Stevenson’s home in Pailton.

 The grounds have the best “Boys Toys” you could wish for with a miniature railway and steam powered launch to entertain. A trip around the grounds on the steam train was most enjoyable but I did love the steam launch that had the same sounds emanating from it as those from the award winning movie “African Queen. A day dream of chugging down the Zambezi, swating mosquitoes in the equatorial heat of the day but in reality we were circumnavigating the sizeable pond. All to be revealed in the video clips.

https://youtu.be/VAJcwmY_32I for the full video.

https://youtu.be/DYpKfSh8abQ  for full video.

The real reason was to engage with fellow enthusiasts with an array of derivatives on display under the trees. Picking out details of interest passing on nuggets of hard earned wisdom to anyone who’d listen. What could be more enjoyable on a sunny afternoon? I thought the Viceroy scooter the best in this show but I saw the detail on a black MKIII that was much to my own thinking with heavier fish plates and a much strengthened frame edging to relieve the stress on the body forward of the pivot fork mounting where it frequently cracks. I have problems pulling on the fuel tap because the hole is just too small for my fingers and a turn cock replaces it. Much of what I will be doing on my next LE rebuild.

I had a very interesting day with like minded souls and did appreciate a charitable bacon bap for sustenance, I bought some club bits for my next project and went away thinking I should have come on an LE but from where I live practically it is best to come with an LE. Perhaps next time?