Welcome to HMG (South African Historic Motorcycle Group)

Now in our 7th year.

H.M.G. have at present over 85 riders and 118 bikes on our register, one up from a few months ago, riding a variety of machinery from Manx Norton’s to Gold Stars, Ducati's, Triumphs, BSA’s, Velocettes, Greeves, Moto-Guzzi's, Egli Vincent, Vincent Black lightning, AJS,s, Matchless's, Kawasakis, Suzukis, Yamahas, Tritons and of course Hondas etc, as well as more exotic machinery, such as Yamaha TZ750, Rob North Triples and a metiesse. We now have a G50 up and running and a 7R. A couple more bikes have just been restored and are now riding with us.

Derek's Commando is on the track for the first time in anger and is now track ready.

The Historic Motorcycle Group takes part in parades and demonstrations at specific tracks throughout South Africa. These include, Kyalami, Wesbank, Phakisa, Zwartkops, Midvaal, East London GP track and the Killarney track in Cape Town.

The selected machines are all manufactured prior to end December 1975 and most have racing histories.
Some of our older machines took part in racing events prior to the Second World War.

 We are at Midvaal on the 4th September for a practise day.

Arrive from 9am and have some great rides.

Group 'B' will also join us for the first time to get to know existing members and set up group 'B' for future events.

After this it's Kyalami on the 18th September.

We are in the same event as the Historic racing cars. Always a great track with 15 corners, sweeps, uphills and down hills. No rain this time of year, so come along and enjoy the fun with us.

 Dave Pearson took 100,s of pictures of our events.

See the photos no Dave's website. Logo on thr right-hand side.

Pictures by Motoprint.

www.motoprint.co.za

The criteria for inclusion to allow a specific motorcycle to appear are;

•Must be manufactured prior to December 1975.
•No magnesium wheels. Only spoke wheels.
•The make and model was originally designed to allow owners to take part in race meetings and sporting events.
•The rider must wear a "D' ring full-face helmet and gloves. We recommend one or 2 piece leathers.
•All selected machines must pass scrutineering, as would any other machine before being allowed onto the racetrack.
The motorcycles range from:

AJS/Match
M18, G50, 7R and G80 Matchless.

BSA
Rickman Rocket 3. A10RR.

BSA.
Rocket Gold Star. Gold Star DBD 34. CR 722. B33.

Ducati.
250, 350, 450, 750 and a few 864's.

Honda.
250/4. 350/4. 400/4. 500/4. CB & Black Bomber and plus 750/4's.

Norton.
Manx M30 and M40, Norvin, Commando and Atlas.

Seeley.
750cc, 5-speed.

Suzuki.
T20. T500 Titan and 500 water cooled GP500. GT750.

Triton.
650cc. 750cc slimline, wideline and Weslake 8-valve head machines.

Triumph.
Bonneville. Tiger100. Triumph TT. Rob North Trident.

Velocette.
KTT. Viper. Venom. Velocette Special 294

Vincent.
Rapide. Egli Comet. And now a Black Lightning.

Yamahas.
TZ250. TZ350. TZ750. RD05A and a 500 V-four has arrived.

Weslake
650, 750, 860 twins.

Kawasaki
Mach3. 900/4.

Metiesse
750 Triple.

Greeves.
Oulton.

Bultaco.
250 water-cooled.

And many others.

We are privileged to have riders such as Jim Redman, 6 times world champion, to local past riders and local champions, such as Errol Cowan, Paddy Driver, Alan Harris as well as Ex Rhodesian past champions such as Jimmy Whyte and enthusiastic as well as local and overseas owners and riders of ex racing machines who take part in many parades.

At the David Piper Day in Jan and Feb each year held at Zwartkops and Killarney Cape Town, we have overseas past champions come out and ride with us. This year they bought out their own machines. We hope to attend a meeting in Europe this year on a reciprocol basis.

Some of the overseas riders were well known in their own right, before settling in South Africa.

When conditions allow, we have overseas past champions ride with us. They are offered local machinery to use whilst they are here.

Upcoming events, excluding practises.

2009 calander.

Date.
Venue.
Status.
Organiser.

November
Midvaal
Practice.
To be confirmed.

November 28th.
Zwartkops.
3-hour Event.
Confirmed.

December 5th.
Kyalami.
9-Hour.
Confirmed.

Starting end of January 2010 there will be the Day of Champions at three different tracks in South Africa. Zwartkops in Pretoria West, Killarney in Cape Town and East London GP circuit. Some famous names are coming over with their bikes to ride with the local lads. Eat your hearts out lads!

Some local riders will also ride with the overseas contingent.

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October 24th at Zwartkops done and dusted.

Summer is almost here. Must have been over 30 deg plus and a little humid what with the previous nights thunderstorm.

24 Members entered. The circuit was packed with plenty of classes and on top of it they had a carting event on a seperate track and a skid-pan course going on at the same time.

Our first outing was at 9,20am for a 10-minute warm up. Track nice a grippy. No problems with any of the bikes.

Then a riders biefing with the COC out to get the guys riding in the parking areas a bit above the speed limit. Then each class was told how the warm-up laps would or should occur. The rest as per usual.

A bit of fettling going on with HMG guys getting their bikes set up prior to the main event.

We got on for our first and only event about 1.30pm.

There was some good dicing going on amongst the different capacity groups and our outing was over before too soon. Great fun and no complaints from anyone.

A couple of DNF's and a failed to start, that was about it.

More in the newsletter in a week or so's time.