See the document below for further clarification on E10 from the FBHVC.

Important notice for day visitors to the AGM.
Due to current COVID precautions in place visitors will not be allowed on the Camping and Caravanning Club site. If you are attending the AGM as a day visitor please go directly to the village hall at Hanley Swan. We intend to open the hall and serve tea from 1.30 p.m. onwards so you will have an opportunity to socialise with other members before the start of the meeting. Thank you for your co-operation.
(The AGM is on Saturday 4th September 2021 at 3.00 p.m. at Hanley Village Hall. See AGM 2021 for details.)

The Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs (FBHVC) is assisting the DVLA with the backlog of historic vehicle registrations. See the press release for more information. (Download the pdf file.)

Sunday the 18th saw temperatures hit 30 degrees making for a seriously hot Founders Day at Stanford Hall, Leicestershire.
As Stanford Hall is fairly local to the Zakis residence the old boy and I decided to risk riding the two James' to take in the show. With the other half on stand-by with the trailer, we made an early start to avoid the worst of the heat.
Remarkably enough, we made it without incident, and after parking the bikes at the East Northants Classic Motorcycle Club Stand (thank you!), we wandered off to take in the sights.
The theme this year was 100 Years of Moto Guzzi but there was plenty to see for the two stroke fan too. Here are a selection of some of our favourites. BTW - we got home safely too, without calling out the rescue service :)

The COVID postponed Stafford show finally made a come back last weekend 3rd and 4th of July. With appropriate COVID measures in place there were plenty of visitors. Apart from the usual trade stands there was good attendance by quite a number of clubs and an impressive collection of bikes to admire including a good number of two strokes. The BTSC also had a stand at the show with some well prepared members bikes on display.
Many thanks to Eric Hathaway for organising the stand.
Please note: visitors in the exhibition hall had to wear masks. Masks in the picture were just briefly lowered for the photo. Perhaps we would have looked better if we'd kept them on :)

Some other two strokes at the show...

It is with great sadness we must report the death of our Vice President Keith Day.
Keith has been a long serving Member of the Club taking on many different roles including: Trade Advertising Officer, Auditor, Northampton Section Leader and Vice President.

Keith was a well-loved member of the Club who was very knowledgeable about two strokes and was one of the nice guys of this world, he always had time for a friendly chat and would help anyone. He will be missed by all of us.

Our thoughts are with his wife Carole and his family at this very sad time.

Robert Hill
Secretary/Director

Members Sales and Wants as published in The Independent can now also be viewed in the Members Only area. Members can also submit their advert for publication in The Independent using the new on-line form, also in the Members Only area. Adverts published in The Independent will also be posted on the web site 2 weeks after the date of publication.

A controversial change to MOT regulations concerning LED lighting upgrades has now been reversed thanks to lobbying by the historic vehicle industry.
See below information from the web site of bettercarlighting.co.uk on the clarification of this rule change.

Stop Press 2
On Monday 15th March, I received a letter from Baroness Vere, forwarded to me by my hard-working local MP, Nadhim Zahawi, thanking the many of us who raised the subject of the illogical and potentially unsafe changes to the MOT regulations with regard to brighter LED headlights and other lights on classic and vintage cars. She has confirmed that she is instructing all UK MOT test centres to note that any car made on or before 1st April 1989 is exempt from these changes and should be issued with a "Pass" if their headlights conform to the beamsetter check. There is no explanation of why cars are assumed to have changed so much on that day that cars made a week or a decade later should not be submitted to the same logic, but at least we have a partial concession to common sense. I, and others will continue the fight to allow owners of later cars to enjoy safe lighting as well. I would like to thank both Nadhim Zahawi and also Nigel Griffith of the White Knight blog and website for their help and advice, as this progress would not have been made without them.
Gil Keane.