The Western Region Action Group
The WRAG Magazine

December 2004

Trollitorial

Well it’s December, that dreaded time of year again when excessive amounts of food and drink are partaken, and wallets are stretched to breaking point from the sheer expense of it all. So take care out there, do please try not to drink and drive, you don’t want to lose your licence or your life at this time of year and try not to get to stressed out over the festive season.
The Troll wishes all his readers a Very Merry Yuletide.

Mid Wilts Xmas Party

On the 4th December Mid Wilts are holding their Christmas Party at the Lysley Arms, starting with a ride at 12:30pm to a Pre-school for children with special needs to raise funds for a special chair.
The evening festivities will be at the Lesley Arms with live bands and a raffle.
Tickets are £5.
For more info and tickets e-mail; Mid Wilts MAG

Glos MAG Xmas Bash

Glos MAG proudly presents their first:
MISSEDTHECHRISTMASPARTY PARTY
On Saturday 22nd January 2005 in Gloucester from 8 till late with live music Real Ale and some Hot Food. This is a limited numbers only event and is Pre-booked ticket only £7.50. Any profit is being split between MAG and a charity. Contact Donna or Sheila at Glos MAG for further details or to book. Or go to:
Gloucester MAG

WESTERN REGION AGM

Sunday 23rd January
Calling all Western Region members!

AGM’s boring? Not ours? Its your chance to come along and have a say in how your Region’s run and let the Rep/Committee know what you’d like taken up to National level for them to discuss. A great way to spend a January Sunday!!
There will be a few eats and some refreshments with the job of the day being to elect your Regional Rep and Committee for the forthcoming year?
Venue for the event will be:
The Pig in the City,
121 Westgate Street,
Gloucester,
GL1 2PG.
AGM is timed 12.30 for 1.00 start on Sunday 23rd January. Mail out being done in December.
See you there, meanwhile enjoy a good festive season & ride free, W. R. Committee.
Why not make a weekend of it and go to both Glos MAG’s Xmas party and the Regional AGM, both of which are being held in the fair City of Gloucester and being organised by those sturdy chaps and chapesses of Glos MAG.

Regional MAG Membership

Western Region MAG covers a sizable area Stretching from Tewksbury and Moreton-in-Marsh in the North down to Weston-super-Mare and Radstock in the South and from the Forest of Dean in the west to Swindon in the east. Mag Members by Areas:

That’s 502 MAG members across the region. Who are they?
What can we do to entice them to become active members of any of the local groups?
And what about all the other MCC’s out there? Are any of them affiliated?
If you have any details on other MCC’s please let us know so we can persuade them to affiliate.

A38 MCC Winter Rally

The A38er’s are holding their Winter Rally over 22nd - 24th July at Court Farm, Banwell, Weston-super-mare.
There are to be live bands, silly games trophies and a raffle for Info 01453 823251.

Daytime Running Lights

A European Commission study has concluded that DRLs are a significant benefit to road safety.
The Study’s conclusion is that a cut of 2.5-7.5% in fatalities across the 15 member states if all traffic ran with lights on during the day.
Other detailed conclusions were:

  1. It is likely that DRL on passenger cars would have a favourable effect on accidents involving pedestrians, cyclists or motorcyclists.
  2. Although the study concluded that DRL on cars would benefit motorcyclists (with or without their own DRL), the perception is that the conspicuity of motorcycles using DRL may be reduced if cars also use their dipped beams. This possible problem would be reduced or even eliminated if new cars were equipped with low-intensity dedicated DRL only.
  3. For ‘full-coverage’ DRL the behavioural requirement to turn on dipped beams during the day has the highest benefit/cost-ratio.
  4. Other ‘full coverage’ options include the provision of dedicated DRL for new cars and the rest of the car park turning on its dipped beams. This option has the highest road safety potential.

Our Chaps up at Central are keeping their eye on this and will let us know if we need to campaign on this issue.

Joint Local Transport Plan

The local authorities of Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset have, as individuals been working on their Local Transport Plans (LTP). Now they have joined together to work on a Joint LTP, as it was realised they had shared transport issues, and will start working on a joint plan for the period 2006-2011. They have also set up a website for the public to have their say at: www.greaterbristoltransportplan.org
This is something we should keep an eye on especially for those of us living within the four Local Authorities boundaries

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December Events

January Events

The Motorcycle Action Group accepts no responsibility for the content of this publication and the views expressed are not necessarily those of the Editor or MAG.

The Troll would like to ask all seasonal revellers not to throw their empty bottles and cans over the bridge parapet, as it is embarrassing when putting the recycle box out.

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