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Us Manchester 17 was founded in 1935 and has held weekly meetings on a Tuesday evening ever since. We are an ACU and BMF affiliated club. Our club nights are held at the Robin Hood Pub on the A6 in High Lane, Stockport. We have over 150 members this year who are mainly involved in Enduros, Trials and Green Laning. Membership fees are a whole £5 per annum. As a club, we regularly organise and compete in : 1. National and Dead Easy Trials. 2. Enduro events 3. Weekend Trail Riding 5. Special Evening Events e.g. BBQs, Charity Trials 7. Weekend Ride outs to Rallies 8. Social Events 9. An Annual Dinner Dance for Trophy Presentation with special guest speakers We also have our own annual club enduro championship, which includes some popular events such as the Powys enduro. |
| Club History |
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1935 a group of friends with a common interest in motorcycles got together
and decided to form a club after responding to an advert placed by Eric
Cave in the window of a cafe in Chorlton, there first meeting was in the
April of that year. The question of what to call the new club apparently
took some time to settle, until someone suggested that they count the
number present and use that as the name.
How do you fancy paying just 'two bob' for the club Christmas dinner ? Sounds good doesn't it ? The problem is you're a few years too late.... The Dinner commenced at 6:30pm leaving at 8:30pm, and finally getting all the bikes going at 9:15pm they started leaving for home expecting some trouble as it had been snowing hard and blowing a blizzard. The roads were not too bad though, none of the snow drifts were more than 2 ft deep! The first Christmas dinner cost ten pence per person and was held in a cafe in Rainow on January 19th 1936 with a sledging session before hand. Starting from the Princess Hotel on Mouldeth Road at 2pm most of the twelve members were on bikes with the toboggans being taken along in a van. The first Club Run in the log book was on January 5th 1936 to the Inter-University trial around Cheeks Hill in Buxton, afterwards the six members present went via the Cat & Fiddle to Mrs Tinley's Poached Egg Shop at Rainow, which seems to have been a regular haunt in those days. Articles taken from "The Club History - Of Poached Eggs & Diamonds" written by Rick Stewart. |
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