MAG UK and Affiliated Club Events List
Events - Fred Hill Runs 2008
If you missed the Fred Hill runs on the 10th February there is still the opportunity to commemorate Fred's exceptional sacrifice in the name of biker's freedoms at the Thames Valley Fred Hill Run on Saturday 16th February.
16th February Thames Valley MAG Fred Hill Run Depart Chieveley Services 12:00pm, (J13 M4/A34) near Newbury. Short stop at Pear Tree Services to regroup. Destination Ride to Martyr's Memorial in Broad Street, Oxford. Followed by Thames Valley AGM and evening party.Information: Thames Valley Region Tel: 0790 500 35 85 Web: http://thames-valley-region.mag-uk.org
Fred Hill Runs 2008 - A Question of Choice
The example set by Fred Hill in defying the compulsory helmet law throughout the nineteen seventies and eighties was extraordinary.
Nowhere in the world has anyone made such exceptional sacrifices in the name of bikers' freedoms.
A former army dispatch rider fighting for freedom in WW2, Fred was incensed by the compulsory helmet law.
He rode everywhere in an old beret, collecting hundreds of tickets.
Fred's refusal to pay the fines for helmet-less riding led to 31 jail sentences.
Once in the dock of a magistrate's court where a lady magistrate berated his lawlessness, Fred took the opportunity to remind her that if it hadn't been for women breaking the law some years ago, she wouldn't be sitting where she was.
Fred was seventy four years old when, in 1984, half way through a barbaric 60 day sentence, he died from a heart attack in
Whether the helmet issue is important to you or not, we all owe it, not only to Fred but to ourselves, to sustain a ceaseless call for the reform of this outrageous legislation MAG is not and never has been anti-helmet.
We just think it is wrong to criminalise peope who wish to exercise choice over what they ride and what they wear.
The helmet law made naff all difference to fatality rates, it's a complete red herring.
In a country where violent yobs walk free from courts, laughing at the law, is it right or proportionate to criminalise and imprison those who just want to have choice over what they wear?
Be it dayglo, be it body armour, be it a helmet. It's all about the same thing - choice.
Is that really too much to expect?
Fred Hill Runs 2008
Greater London MAG
Sunday February 10th
Depart from the Ace Café at 1400.
Get there earlier there will be time for tea and breakfast. We will be going to Pentonville Prison, via a circuitous route, to lay a wreath in Fred's memory.
Information: Greater
Contact: Gerard Livett a.k.a. Uncle Sol
Tel: 0870 774 3557
Email: greater-london-region@mag-uk.org
Web: www.greater-london.mag-uk.org
West Midlands MAG
Sunday February 10th
Ride in to the
The Unwanted MCC are organizing a ride in from the Beech Hotel,
The Boring Old Fartz will be meeting at the Tesco/ Notcutts carpark, just off Junction 4 M42 for a ride the long way round (via Lapworth) to the Museum.
Rides also from Telford & Coventry.
Information:
Contact: Eddie Lowe
Tel: 01527 575843/07970 303528
Web: www.westmidlandsmag.org.uk
Blackburn
Sunday February 10th
Sir Charles Napier pub,
East Anglia MAG
Sunday Feb 10
Assemble at the Silver Ball Transport Cafe, Reed (4.5 miles south of Royston on the A10) Assemble from 11:00 to leave at 11:30 riding down to the Ace Cafe to arrive to join the main run leaving The ACE at 14:00.
Plan is to not use any motorways.
Information:
Contact: Selina
Regional Rep East
Tel: 0870 774 3564
Email: east-anglia-region@mag-uk.org
Web: http://east-anglia-region.mag-uk.org
MAG Cornwall
Sunday February 10th
10am from The Royal Standard, Gwinear, nr Camborne
Information: South West region
Contact: Mike Baker
Tel: 0870 774 3538
Web: south-west-region@mag-uk.org
Medway MAG
Sunday February 10th
Run to the Greater
Meet B&Q Strood at 1000
Also meet at the Holiday Inn, A2 junction
Information: South East Region
Contact: Stu Chivers
Tel: 0870 774 3545
Email: south-east-region@mag-uk.org
Web: http://south-east-region.mag-uk.org
Leeds MAG
Sunday February 10th
If it's anything like last year, it will be a thoroughly well attended event. From Squires (Sherburn in Elmet) To
The Sun Inn (
The run, usually lasts around 45 minutes and goes through some fantastic countryside as it heads towards the SUN Inn, another favourite biker meeting place.
Information:
Web: www.leedsmag.org
Thames Valley MAG
Saturday February 16th
Depart Chieveley Services 12:00pm, (J13 M4/A34) near Newbury. Short stop at Pear Tree Services to regroup.
Destination Ride to Martyr's Memorial in
Followed by Thames Valley AGM and evening party.
Information:
Tel: 0790 500 35 85
