West Midlands MAG ‘FRED HILL’ Memorial Run

[MRM]

Ride out for this 2008 is the West Midlands MAG ‘FRED HILL’ Memorial Run to the national Motorcycle Museum.

Meeting Converging at the Museum for 1pm. Sunday 10th February 2008

Various Runs coming from Midday start from the Bewell Head Working Mans Club, 44 Bewell Head, B61 8HY off Broard Street (which comes off the Stourbridge Road~ B4091 just where the Hundred House Pub is) Bromsgrove.

Group rides from the Park Inn (Black Country MAG) @ 11:00am to Bewell Head.

The Unwanted MCC are organisation a run from the Beech Hotel, Burton on Trent at approx 12:00noon & the BOF MCC a run from Tesco/Notcutts car park J4 / M42 at 12:00noon for a ride to the museum.

1066-MCC will be meeting at the Rose & Crown @ 11:00am to join the run with the BOF at Tesco’s.

Everyone welcome

INFO from MAG UK and Affiliated Club Events List

Fred Hill Runs 2008 - A Question of Choice

The example set by Fred Hill in defying the compulsory helmet law throughout the nineteen seventies and eighties was extraordinary.

Nowhere in the world has anyone made such exceptional sacrifices in the name of bikers' freedoms.

A former army dispatch rider fighting for freedom in WW2, Fred was incensed by the compulsory helmet law.

He rode everywhere in an old beret, collecting hundreds of tickets.

Fred's refusal to pay the fines for helmet-less riding led to 31 jail sentences.

Once in the dock of a magistrate's court where a lady magistrate berated his lawlessness, Fred took the opportunity to remind her that if it hadn't been for women breaking the law some years ago, she wouldn't be sitting where she was.

Fred was seventy four years old when, in 1984, half way through a barbaric 60 day sentence, he died from a heart attack in London's gruesome Pentonville Prison.

Whether the helmet issue is important to you or not, we all owe it, not only to Fred but to ourselves, to sustain a ceaseless call for the reform of this outrageous legislation MAG is not and never has been anti-helmet.

We just think it is wrong to criminalize people who wish to exercise choice over what they ride and what they wear.

The helmet law made naff all difference to fatality rates, it's a complete red herring.

In a country where violent yobs walk free from courts, laughing at the law, is it right or proportionate to criminalize and imprison those who just want to have choice over what they wear?

Be it Day-Glo, be it body armour, be it a helmet. It's all about the same thing - choice.

Edited February 10, 2008 by MRM

[yorbandit]

What date mate

[MRM]

What date mate

 

Sorry yorb.....

Ride out was this Sunday 10th February 2008 is the West Midlands MAG ‘FRED HILL’ Memorial Run to the national Motorcycle Museum.

Cracking day ouystanding turnout ..Thanks to BOFs for mini rideout 8)

ROSE & CROWN

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MUSEUM FINISH

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