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Hello Fellow Wingers
Firstly can we take this opportunity to thank Mark and Christine Bright for their dedication to EN-A and all their hard work in trying to please and entice all of us to get together and attend events, social gatherings both with and without our trusty steeds.
Secondly may we introduce ourselves? Many of you will know us by name and face, some I am sure will not. We are Mark and Tiffany Noy who have taken up the challenge of following in Mark and Christine’s’ footsteps as Chapter Director and Secretary of EN-A. To be honest with you we are not quite sure how we got ourselves in this position but as I said before Mark Bright put in a lot of hard work to entice us into taking part in EN-A’s activities and none less so than persuading us it was a task we were more than capable of!
We live in Worthing, West Sussex with our young growing family, two boys, Declan who is 13 and Kieran who is 8 and as I type this, our youngest girl called erin born on 20/06/2007. We are rounded off as a family with an extremely loopy Border Collie who makes the occasional trip away with us too. I leave you to work out the maths as to how two adults, three children and one dog get about on our much loved motorcycles!! Read about the answer to this conundrum later.
We will endeavour to come up with something at some point that will encourage each and every one of you to join us whether that is for a meeting or just a social gathering. We are under no illusions that we can “please all of the people all of the time” and that EN-A can only survive with your participation. It would be lovely to feel supported in this new venture and if you feel that in amongst your busy schedules with holidays and other commitments that you could attend a gathering at some point through the year we would love to see you.
Thirdly we would like to thank John Mundy of Southampton, Hampshire for taking up the gauntlet as our Assistant Chapter Director, enjoy your trip to Billings Montana John.
Lastly we would like to wish Mark Bright all the best in his new ventures and again thank both Mark and Christine for all their hard work.
Mark, Tiffany, Declan & Kieran
Conundrum 1!
Here’s part of the answer to the conundrum of before. How does a family of five and a dog get about on a Goldwing??
Well to be fair two Goldwings even our maths isn’t good enough to get us all about on one! Mark and I own a 1997 solo magenta 1500SE and a 1989 Californian Sidecar Conversion, wine berry 1500 trike.
Our love of these wonderful machines had seen us out and about with our boys riding pillion enjoying life to the full. That was until a new addition to the family in the form of our rather daft Border Collie Charys, now what? Neither of us liked the idea of kennelling her whilst away and we knew that we were not always going to be able to call upon the family to help out so what were we to do?
The answer came in that month’s current wingworld adverts, a DOG TRAILER!! Suitable enquiries were made, now this is a bit of a pampered pet but not £4,500.00 pampered! The cost of importing a Waggy Tails dog trailer from the USA. Further searches revealed another company in Europe who made something similar with an importer in the UK. Sorted we thought. Price, still not that pampered!! Back to the drawing board.
Over dinner one evening we threw the challenge to our eldest, you want to be a car designer when you grow up well see what you can do and design Charys a trailer to go behind a solo Wing. Reams of A4 computer paper later, I wondered why my printer was always empty when I went to print anything, we had an initial design. Many evening meals later having discussed the pros and cons and adapting the designs that Declan had drawn we came up with a prototype design. The next stage was finding someone who could work to an 11 year olds drawing and produce a humane and safe trailer to transport Charys to the various events that we wished to attend.
We located a sheet metal worker and fibreglass specialist and with much toing and froing by Mark between these very skilled gentlemen over a 13 month period the efforts of everyone involved resulted in a dog transporter they could all be rightfully proud of.
Conundrum 2!
Here’s the final part of the answer to the conundrum of before. How does a family of five and a dog get about on a Goldwing??
So we sorted the transportation of our pampered pooch only to face another dilemma!! Our family of four was going to become five. As you may recall Mark and I own a 1997 solo magenta 1500SE and a 1989 Californian Sidecar Conversion, wine berry 1500 trike. We were adamant that a growing family was not going to see us going down the road of so many before us, that of having to give up our family hobby and love because of our expected arrival, what to do?
Our budding car designer started to come up with ideas for my trike!!! A gentle steer away from that was the order of the day. There was nothing for it; it was going to have to be a SIDECAR!!
We researched, investigated and decided a Watsonian Squire RX4 Adult/child chair fitted the bill. A new one was out of the question, so began our hunt for a second-hand chair. Our search ended in Norfolk in September of 2006 with a family as enthusiastic about motorcycling as we were who had ridden outfits of various designs since their children were born, now in their late teens and early twenties and riding for themselves. A weekend away resulted in our purchase of a nearly pristine black RX4 which with a little haggling resulted in it being delivered on our behalf to Watsonian Squire in the Cotswolds ready for fitment to Marks’ Wing.
There was just one snag Mark had never ridden a sidecar outfit in his life and my dipping a toe into the water of this sort of experience on an old Jawa was not one I relished repeating, and certainly not in front of Mark!!
Could my ever loving husband do it, could he tame the beast of a combination and live to tell the tale, find out in the next edition of EN-A’s newsletter
Hello Fellow Wingers
Firstly can we take this opportunity to thank Mark and Christine Bright for their dedication to EN-A and all their hard work in trying to please and entice all of us to get together and attend events, social gatherings both with and without our trusty steeds.
Secondly may we introduce ourselves? Many of you will know us by name and face, some I am sure will not. We are Mark and Tiffany Noy who have taken up the challenge of following in Mark and Christine’s’ footsteps as Chapter Director and Secretary of EN-A. To be honest with you we are not quite sure how we got ourselves in this position but as I said before Mark Bright put in a lot of hard work to entice us into taking part in EN-A’s activities and none less so than persuading us it was a task we were more than capable of!
We live in Worthing, West Sussex with our young growing family, two boys, Declan who is 13 and Kieran who is 8 and as I type this, our youngest is due to be born on 20.06.07, although I can’t confirm girl or boy yet it’s a surprise!! We are rounded off as a family with an extremely loopy Border Collie who makes the occasional trip away with us too. I leave you to work out the maths as to how two adults, three children and one dog get about on our much loved motorcycles!! Read about the answer to this conundrum later.
We will endeavour to come up with something at some point that will encourage each and every one of you to join us whether that is for a meeting or just a social gathering. We are under no illusions that we can “please all of the people all of the time” and that EN-A can only survive with your participation. It would be lovely to feel supported in this new venture and if you feel that in amongst your busy schedules with holidays and other commitments that you could attend a gathering at some point through the year we would love to see you.
Thirdly we would like to thank John Mundy of Southampton, Hampshire for taking up the gauntlet as our Assistant Chapter Director, enjoy your trip to Billings Montana John.
Lastly we would like to wish Mark Bright all the best in his new ventures and again thank both Mark and Christine for all their hard work.
Mark, Tiffany, Declan & Kieran
Conundrum 1!
Here’s part of the answer to the conundrum of before. How does a family of five and a dog get about on a Goldwing??
Well to be fair two Goldwings even our maths isn’t good enough to get us all about on one! Mark and I own a 1997 solo magenta 1500SE and a 1989 Californian Sidecar Conversion, wine berry 1500 trike.
Our love of these wonderful machines had seen us out and about with our boys riding pillion enjoying life to the full. That was until a new addition to the family in the form of our rather daft Border Collie Charys, now what? Neither of us liked the idea of kennelling her whilst away and we knew that we were not always going to be able to call upon the family to help out so what were we to do?
The answer came in that month’s current wingworld adverts, a DOG TRAILER!! Suitable enquiries were made, now this is a bit of a pampered pet but not £4,500.00 pampered! The cost of importing a Waggy Tails dog trailer from the USA. Further searches revealed another company in Europe who made something similar with an importer in the UK. Sorted we thought. Price, still not that pampered!! Back to the drawing board.
Over dinner one evening we threw the challenge to our eldest, you want to be a car designer when you grow up well see what you can do and design Charys a trailer to go behind a solo Wing. Reams of A4 computer paper later, I wondered why my printer was always empty when I went to print anything, we had an initial design. Many evening meals later having discussed the pros and cons and adapting the designs that Declan had drawn we came up with a prototype design. The next stage was finding someone who could work to an 11 year olds drawing and produce a humane and safe trailer to transport Charys to the various events that we wished to attend.
We located a sheet metal worker and fibreglass specialist and with much toing and froing by Mark between these very skilled gentlemen over a 13 month period the efforts of everyone involved resulted in a dog transporter they could all be rightfully proud of.
Conundrum 2!
Here’s the final part of the answer to the conundrum of before. How does a family of five and a dog get about on a Goldwing??
So we sorted the transportation of our pampered pooch only to face another dilemma!! Our family of four was going to become five. As you may recall Mark and I own a 1997 solo magenta 1500SE and a 1989 Californian Sidecar Conversion, wine berry 1500 trike. We were adamant that a growing family was not going to see us going down the road of so many before us, that of having to give up our family hobby and love because of our expected arrival, what to do?
Our budding car designer started to come up with ideas for my trike!!! A gentle steer away from that was the order of the day. There was nothing for it; it was going to have to be a SIDECAR!!
We researched, investigated and decided a Watsonian Squire RX4 Adult/child chair fitted the bill. A new one was out of the question, so began our hunt for a second-hand chair. Our search ended in Norfolk in September of 2006 with a family as enthusiastic about motorcycling as we were who had ridden outfits of various designs since their children were born, now in their late teens and early twenties and riding for themselves. A weekend away resulted in our purchase of a nearly pristine black RX4 which with a little haggling resulted in it being delivered on our behalf to Watsonian Squire in the Cotswolds ready for fitment to Marks’ Wing.
There was just one snag Mark had never ridden a sidecar outfit in his life and my dipping a toe into the water of this sort of experience on an old Jawa was not one I relished repeating, and certainly not in front of Mark!!
Could my ever loving husband do it, could he tame the beast of a combination and live to tell the tale, find out in the next edition of EN-A’s newsletter
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