Category: Past Rideouts

2025 July, Dave Angus Memorial Ride to Compton Abbas Airfield

13th July 2025, the ‘David Angus Memorial Rideout’ to Compton Abbas Airfield, which was always a great favourite of David’s, and he led us there many times. Graham Parker, Marcus Hilsdon, Richard Orton, Clive Hitchen, and our newest member, Andras Tengz met at Sindlesham Court early on the 13th while it remained comfortable in the…
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2025 June, Wiltshire Cruise (from Hungerford)

This is the route for the June rideout Sunday, the 8th June.Starting in Hungerford at the Swan Pub, meeting at 9 for a 9.30 am departure.Then A338 south to Salisbury via Collingbourne Ducis and Tidworth.A36 ring road then North on the A345 to just south of Upavon via Amesbury and Neveravon.A342 to Devizes.A342 north towards…
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2025 May, Pinewood Custom Bike Show, Crowthorne

Hi everyone.In the absence of Ian Hopgood, who was arranging this month’s ride out, and for his asthma reasons cannot be with us, I was going to lead his planned ride to the Pinewood Bike Show ….. but …..The overriding feedback I’m getting is that the majority of TVML riders are going straight to the…
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2023-08 Compton Abass Memorial Ride & 10th Anniversary

The Thames Valley Motorcycle Lodge had one of its Monthly ride-outs on the 6th of August. This was a special occasion for 2 reasons. Firstly, we were celebrating 10 years since the founding of the Lodge, and to mark the occasion, we decided to take a few photos of some of our bikes in a…
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2023-07, We’re Sponsors! Bethany Ashby

At our meeting in July 2023, the Lodge agreed to Sponsor Bethany Ashby, a pre-teen young lady, whose overriding ambition is to compete in the British Superbikes! That’s an ambition we can all get behind, but we want her to do it safely and so we are helping towards the costs of her safety gear.

2019-12, 33rd Reading Toy Run

The Reading Toy Run in support of the Barnardo’s Christmas Appeal happened on Sunday, 9th December, and a contingent of 15 Berkshire Freemasons, mostly from TVML helped marshal the event. The Toy Run, which is in its 34th year, attracts up to 1,500 riders from all over the country and is the holder of the…
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2019-10, Teba, Spain

Back in 2015 whilst at the West Kent Motorcycle Lodge consecration in Kent, I was convinced by other Thames Valley Motorcycle Lodge (TVML) brethren that I should join them on one of their regular bike trips to Teba in the Andalusian mountains north-west of Malaga. Ten of us subsequently travelled to Mark and Lindsay Coma’s…
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