Venue: The Moulton Bicycle Company, Holt Road, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1AH
Saturday 09:30, Gates open to set up the Bring & Buy.
10:00 - 11:30 The Bring & Buy sale.
Everyone is welcome to bring their Moulton bikes and parts. Selling is free. It may be useful for you to bring your own table. The Moulton Company's table will be very limited as most of their old parts stock has been snapped up by Club members in the past!
Moulton Preservation will be there for all those special F frame components for your refurbishment projects.
Teas and Coffees provided by the Moulton Bicycle Company.
11:30 - 12:00 New factory tour.
13:00 Rides to Lacock (21 miles) & Angelfish Cafe (10 miles) set off from the top car park . We can park our vehicles within the factory grounds before we head off on our rides.
You may be interested to tour The Hall since its recent refurbishment. Tours may be booked directly with The Hall via their website www.moultontrust.org. You could also stay in The Hall for the weekend (Airbnb).
Cost to attend the Spring Meeting is £5.00, Free for 16 year olds and under. Please bring the exact money to cover the entrance fee(s) to speed things up. No advance booking, pay at the gate. You must be a current Club member or be part of a member's immediate family. Non-members will be made welcome but they must join the Club. Annual UK membership £22.50, £25.00 if you live in Europe, £30.00 if you live anywhere else in the World. (cash or cheque at the gate).
Arrangements may change due to weather conditions and availability.
NO CAMPING OR OVERNIGHT STAYS IN THE HALL GROUNDS.
Graham Attwell, who died recently, was a Club Member for over 30 years.
The following is a tribute from Tim Evans:
Many Moultoneers will have bought wheels built by Graham Attwell. Their high quality is legendary. He was a very clever man who loved solving problems. Graham shared his knowledge through masterclasses at several BOA weekends and his contributions to the Yahoo discussion group were always worth reading and keeping.
I bought my first wheels from Graham at BOA 2002, they were 16” alloy rims with a Dynohub in the front and in the rear, a 4-speed Sturmey Archer that he’d converted to 2-trigger 5-speed. It was for a 1963 deluxe I was doing up for my daughter.
The next wheels were for a Speedsix that its previous owner had relegated to 16” steel rims when its 17” Milremo alloy originals split between the spoke holes. On that occasion I had the privilege of being admitted to Graham’s garage. It was stuffed full of bicycles and bicycle-related things with a narrow passage just wide enough to walk through. Also for the Speedsix he had some pretty authentic looking alloy-look mudguards that I got.
Graham helped find the APB which is the basis of our Moulton tandem. Over the years I bought several sets of wheels from Graham, often 2-trigger 5-speeds, which I really like.
He didn’t charge for the time he put into building wheels and sold them simply for the cost of the components. If he found a new rim was a bit oversize he would separate it at the pins and file it down so that tyres fitted easily. That’s attention to detail.
Often we met at Ripley cycle jumbles where he was looking for suitable hubs. One of his sayings was “this spins well and will give good service though it might not carry you all the way round the world”.
He enjoyed building wheels and hub gears, so inevitably he had to sell them so he could build more but he saw no reason to profit from his enjoyment. Once somebody had the temerity to try to beat him down on price to which Graham’s response was simply to increase price to him!
Westminster City Council in London kept Graham after retirement as a consultant for siting bus stops, which is a very tricky multidimensional problem, as is wheel building and hub gear conversions. Bendy-buses were a particular problem (I found them scary when cycling) but for Graham getting them round the streets of Westminster, on to and off bus stops and not offending residents was an interesting challenge to exercise the “little grey cells”.
Graham was a good friend in whose company I enjoyed several dinners at BOA. I and many Moultoneers will miss his knowledge, wisdom and dry humour but his wheels will roll on, which reminds me that I have a couple of worn out 369 rims to replace.
The Hall/ Moulton Bicycle Company, Holt Road, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1AH
The Hall
The Courtyard where the Saturday afternoon Talk will be held
All adults through the gate need to pay either £10 for the Saturday meet or £25 for weekend camping. For those aged 17 and under it's all free (when accompanied by an adult Club member). Despite our increasing costs, we have held the event cost to you at the same level for the past two years!
As ever it’s members & immediate family only, if you are not a member then you can join the club for £22.50 (UK membership) on line beforehand or at the gate to maintain our status with HMRC. Toilets & showers are available to all.
Provisional schedule for the weekend
Friday– from 4pm campers/motorhomes can arrive to set up their units. Ample parking on site but maybe not in your first choice of location. We then usually head down to the Swan Hotel in the centre of Bradford on Avon to meet up and have something to eat. As an alternative there is the The Dandy Lion across the road from the Swan and numerous other pubs and restaurants in Bradford on Avon for good food & drink.
The Bridge across the Avon in the Town Centre
Saturday
8am gates open, campers awake……..
9amto11am Table Top Sale of all things Moulton, everything from a rideable bike to a set of frame transfers, those special replacement parts for F frame refurbishments from Moulton Preservation, interesting components & spares from the Moulton factory. NO fees for selling your stuff whether thats a van full of Moultons or a few tyres, its all free.
Table Top Sale of all things Moulton
11am – 12 noon Open forum, for you to share your thoughts with the committee and the committee to ask for your help, guidance & ideas.
1pm – 3pm Courtyard talk, this year from F-frame to Space-frame as it’s the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Space-frame bicycle. Presented by Dan Farrell and Tony Hadland with numerous bicycle examples. The raffle draw.
Court Yard Talk
3pm – 5pm A short ride (1.2 miles each way) to the Kettlesmith Brewing Company to sample some of their fine ales.
7pm – 11pm The club meal at St Margarets Hall. Main’s (see booking form) served with mixed rice, new potatoes, mixed salad, coleslaw. Desserts (see booking form) served with pouring cream. Tea or coffee after the meal & a bar is available.
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The BBQ will be a bring your own food & drink, there will be separate “meat” and “vegetarian” BBQ grills. (Provided by the Moulton Bicycle Company)
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If you want to go into BoA for a meal I suggest you plan ahead.
Sunday– All rides set off from the upper car park by the entrance gate.
There will be 3 rides:
Long ride about 35 miles, Middle ride around 25 miles, Short 10mile family ride.
Usually the first ride leaves at about 9am and the last ride sets off at about 10am, but the actual departure times will be displayed during the event & on Facebook.
Every thing may change due to the weather or events outside our control.
Clear up all debris, your tents packed away etc. and we all leave before 5pm on Sunday.
As per previous years, we will have security on the gate fron Friday through to Sunday morning.
Please keep checking our web page and Facebook for the latest event news and updates.
I hope you can join us at BoA, it will be good to see you in September, catch up with old friends, make new friends AND ride in a group of Moultons.
When: Saturday 22nd April from 09:30 to 12:30 & Sunday 23rd morning.
Where: The Moulton Bicycle Company, Holt Road, Bradford–on-Avon, BA15 1AH
Why is it so late in the month? We normally try to arrange this event on the weekend closest to Alex Moulton’s birthday, 9th April but this year, that’s Easter Sunday.
Local accommodation & traffic would be more difficult over Easter. Similarly for the following weekend, due to the school holidays.
The Club Committee agreed that it would be held on the weekend of 22nd & 23rd. The following weekend is another bank holiday in England.
A footnote – This is a ‘Club Members Only’ event.
In previous years we have offered a weekend membership to newcomers to sample our event. We have been strongly advised to stop this.
His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs sees this practice as an abuse of our Mutual Association status. They are clamping down on organisations offering this temporary membership. Entrants will have to have full annual membership only from now on.