The Plains Motorcycle Club, Christchurch, New Zealand

Plains Motorcycle Club

"keeping the shiny side up and the wind in your face"

Welcome to all Motorcycle Enthusiasts

Sundown Retreat 2012

The 12th Sundown Retreat to be held again at the Balmoral Reserve at Hurunui. This fantastic site with its unique micro climate will be used for the second time. Camping is superb having camping grounds with flush toilets and alcoves where private group camping is great. There will be a central fire close to the new stage where the Rubber Band will be playing with a Saxaphone and keyboardist to add some great touches to some awesome mix of music. Games and challenges will again be part of the rally, we will have a sound off and see who has the loudest bike, might even see who has the loudest yell. see who can toss the handbag the furthrest or the rugby ball, toss a toilet seat and stretch the most on the horizontal bungy, The keg toss will see who has the best style, man or woman
The bike show had a fairly good showing last year and was very popular so bring your polishing rage and get it into the bike show.
There will be the usuall raffles going, spend $2 and hope you can win $50 back, we have some other neat stuff as prizes as well, for the competitions, the bike show and the raffles.
T-shirts will again be available at the rally site, 2 choices of t-shirts both will be on black, designs are here and here, $25 per shirt. Order yours now with Steve, no chance of missing out then. No cloth badges this year but you will get a metal badge on entry. We have some of the older rally shirts still available so we will be offeering some of those at reasonable prices.
The bar will be back ijn a new form with a couple of marques to keep you dry and keep out the younger patrons, bar area will be 18 plus.
Food on site will be an All Day Brekky, Burgers, The HotDod Caravan will be there with all sorts of goodies, hotdogs, chips, whitebait and the list goes on, they satisfy everyone (well nearly, celiacs excluded) but wait there will be some gluten free pies and gluten free sausages available. Their will also be some yummy stew and bacon/salad sammies.

Download a pdf version of the entry form here, remember if you are coming as a group it will work out a little cheaper, so take advantage and save your dollars for the raffles etc

Club Meetings
Our new meeting place is the Papanui RSA at 55 Bellvue Ave, Papanui. Meeting starts at 7:30 but come along earlier to a drink and a chat. Or even for a meal. Some of the club are there by 6:30 for feed.
The FIRST and THIRD Monday each month. Club rides are usually on the Sunday following the first Monday.

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WELCOME

The Plains Motorcycle Club originally started as the Drifters MC on 12 February 1986. However following a disturbance at the Cust midnight Spit Rally of 1987, where several of the clubs members caused a little disturbance when their fun was not recognized as such by other rally goers it was decided a name change was needed to remove our supposed bad name and improve our image. The result was a change of name to Plains Motorcycle Club at a meeting on 20th July 1987.
The Drifters were a group of motorcyclists, friends and relatives who enjoyed motorcycling and decided to form their own club. Over the years there have been many changes of members and activities of Club involvement.
The main events were the Claytons Rally, the rally you have when you don’t have a rally. This was a postal event for a badge. The money was used from 1989 as a means of sponsorship for the Cholmondeley Children’s Home at Governors Bay over the hill from Christchurch. The last Claytons was in 1994. The Club continued to support the home however in a more limited fashion, until 2001 when the Sundown Retreat/Rally was instigated, with the profits from this going to the home. The Club also from 1989 ran a Cholmondeley badge run with money from the sale of badges going to the home and this is now approaching it’s 20th anniversary. We collect at this run many educational aids for the home - books, craft equipment, videos, DVDs, etc; which essentially maintain the home over the winter months. We have also bought equipment such as a commercial toaster and warm jackets for staff.
The Club is very much into motorcycling and motorcycle events, such as rallies. We also have annual Club events such as our Nelson Creek Run, started in 1989 and still going strong. Held at Labour weekend in October. We also have several overnighters such as a Christmas do, a midyear overnighter and several others in the year. Also every month there is a Club ride. The only drawback with this living in Christchurch, getting off straight boring roads can take some time. You can only ride the same roads so many times before they become repetitive.
The Club is social in that there are also parties throughout the year, groups going to movies, and playing several other clubs at sports (pool, darts, indoor bowls etc), so there is enough to keep us busy. All in all we’re an active little group and one that seems to go from strength to strength.