Month: May 2019

The Wirral Wobblers had a successful weekend at the Manchester Bike Show recently, winning three awards for their bikes on the stand.

“Best Unrestored Classic” was won by Martin Archer for his scruffy, warts-and-all but sweet running (It goes on many Wobblers and Buzz’ards runs) Excelsior Autobyk G2.

“Best Moped” was won by John Burgess for his superbly-restored Leopard Bobby 5 (seen above), of which only four are known to survive.

“Best Moped Runner-up” went to Dave Watson for his rare and superb HEC Powercycle, which has a Levis engine.

Barry Cooksley was unfortunately badly injured on April 14th when he crashed on his bike while out with 10 fellow section members on one of their runs near Ogmore by Sea. Barry came off his bike (no other vehicle was involved) and landed hard on the road, cracking the rear of his helmet and injuring the back of his head. He was unconscious and had to be airlifted to hospital.  He is making a  slow recovery and is improving every day but it might be a while before he is back in the saddle.  Thanks to Ray Butcher and Ivor Slade of the Vale of Glamorgan group for the information; I’m sure all NACC members wish Barry a speedy recovery and hope to see him back in action soon.