Author: marcus

To raise awareness of Leeds MAG`s campaign to allow bikes in bus lanes.
Meeting at Squires Cafe Bar, Newthorpe, LS25 5LX from 11am for a prompt departure at 12 noon.
The demo ride will proceed through Leeds city centre on a learner friendly route to finish at the New Inn Eccup LS16 8AU
All bikes, trikes and scooters welcome.

There will be a party & camp over at the New Inn Eccup
Camping £5pp inc full English Breakfast
Selection of real ales, good bar food
Live music from “Like it or lump it”
Please let us know via Facebook if you will be camping over so we can arrange catering 🙂

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow is the first meeting in May for Leeds MAG. We’re meeting at the usual place of The Royal Hotel in Pudsey (LS28 8PR) from 8ish.

We’ve loads to discuss with the Mondo Enduro event, hustings, Into the Valley rally that we’ve had and the Demo Ride and campover at the end of the month to finalise.

Hopefully you’ll have filled in the West Yorkshire combined transport questionnaire I sent out a couple of weeks ago. We just managed to get on that in time, and hopefully they’ll take some notice of it and get PTW’s included – the demo ride will help raise awareness of this issue.

On the back of this West Yorkshire wide transport policy, we have been in touch with both Huddersfield (who cover Halifax too) and Wakefield to create a joint Motorcycle Action Group West Yorkshire committee to tackle this issue in a combined assault. I’ll keep you informed with any progress we make.

Finally Friday December 11th we’re having a bit of a Christmas do and heading up to Newcastle to see rockabilly legends, Bessie and the Zinc Buckets. If you fancy joining us, bring £18 to the meeting tomorrow and I’ll order you a ticket.

Hope to see you tomorrow.

Ride safe
Manny

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow is the second Leeds MAG meeting in April and we’ve got something a little bit different.

We’ve managed to get some prospective MP’s to come along and answer our questions on motorcycle related issues. We’ve got candidates from the Conservatives, UKIP and Greens coming. The Lib Dems are playing hard to get, but I hope to secure them. Unfortunately the Labour candidate is double booked and cannot attend.

It should be an enlightening night, so please come along to the usual venue of The Royal Hotel in Pudsey (LS28 8PR) from 8pm.

The ongoing campaign to get bikes in bus lanes took a turn last week when we received a notification from Leeds City council that PTW’s wouldn’t be allowed in bus lanes. It seems that Leeds has become the lead authority for West Yorkshire and there is now going to be a West Yorkshire combined transport policy.

The bus lane knock back in Leeds will have an affect on the whole of West Yorkshire and even more worrying is the fact the West Yorkshire combined authority has published a consultation on transport policy that they don’t seem to have widely published. The consultation ends on 30th April and it has NO mention whatsoever of motorcycles so we ALL need to get on it and take 15 minutes to fill it in – this will have an affect on our future so it’s important that we get as many bikers to respond as possible.

The link is http://www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/stp-survey.

Hope to see as many of you as possible tomorrow.

Ride safe
Manny

Hi everyone
Spring has sprung and I hope you’re all enjoying it.

Tomorrow is the first Leeds MAG meeting of April @ The Royal Hotel LS28 8PR from 8pm, as always we’ve lots to discuss as we’ve been very busy.

The next meeting is an election hustings. We’ve invited the five main political parties candidates that are standing for MP’s to field questions from the floor – should be an interesting evening – all welcome.

Mondo Enduro – An Evening with Austin Vince is a week on Saturday (18th April) – Mondo Enduro has recently been voted the best bike movie of all time! And Austin is the man that did it! If we can sell this out we’ll make a great donation to MAG so get yourself along for a fun evening at Squires – you’ll not regret it 😉

Ride safe
Manny

Yes – it’s back! Get it in your diary!

The fourth Leeds MAG Comedy Night is fast approaching and will be returning to its home – The new look Cross Keys, Britannia Road, Morley, Leeds

On the bill to date:
Dean Moore
Lulu Reubens
Lembit Opik
Roland Gent

And where would we be without our MC, the Divine Patrick Devine?!

You know the deal – tickets are £5.00 – for that you’ll get your comedy and your curry – in advance and on the door (if there’s any left). They’ll be available from Leeds MAG members and the Cross Keys.

Selected cakes and tasty tit-bits will be available for purchase – don’t forget that there’s no calories in a charity cake! 😉

Hi everyone,

Tuesday is the first Leeds MAG meeting in March @ The Royal Hotel (LS28 8PR) from 8ish
I was going to say that it looks like spring is here, but on waking up this morning and opening the curtains I’ll save that for next time.

Politically it’s been quiet over the last two weeks but on the events side it’s been busy.

Tickets are on sale now for all the Yorkshire MAG rallies and if you buy all three at once online, you’ll get a limited edition t-shirt for nowt!

Austin Vince (Mondo Enduro) tickets are selling steadily. If you’ve never heard of Austin, he traveled the world with his mates on a shoestring on DR350’s and was the inspiration for Ewan and Charlies “Long way round” trip. He’s a brilliantly funny bloke with many hilarious and inspiring tales of his adventures. It was also announced this weekend that Mondo Enduro has been voted the number one motorcycle movie of all time in an online poll – don’t miss out on the opportunity to meet the man himself.

We’ve got a Spring party on 21st March at the Royal which should be a blast.

Finally, we’ve got Comedy night tickets for sale now for 31st March – we’ve got a guest comedian that you’ll not want to miss…….

Ride safe
Manny