Another great meeting last night with good number of members attending.

We had our Lucky Member door prize with Andrew Skene having his number drawn, unfortunately Andrew wasn’t present so the prize jackpots to next meeting – now sitting at $30. So Don’t miss the next meeting (08/08/23) for your chance to collect.

We also had Mark kick off a new addition to the meetings called the Members Show ‘N’ Tell were a member puts their hand up to bring along a bike / car or other to Show the meeting & tell the story behind their treasures, Mark set a pretty high bar with his 2000 Honda VTR1000 SP1, but I’m sure we’ll be in for some interesting machines to be presented, come along to meetings for an up close and personal on them..

Here is a bit of a write up with some photos.

At this meeting Mark brought along his 2000 Honda VTR-1000 SP1, which as you can see here is in incredible condition with 46,000km on the ODO, but the icing on the cake is that Mark has the original box that it was delivered to Australia in ! Amazing.

The Bike was originally shipped to Sydney, then Canberra before being sold to 1st owner in Horsham, were it was looked after like a family member, being garaged in the owners lounge room.

The bike has some unique design points including side mounted radiators which allowed the engine to sit forward in the frame, a front on ram air intake which ducts the air around headstock and frame then into the airbox, gear driven cams, dual 310mm discs up front and a single 220mm disc in the rear.

Powered by a 1000cc 90-degree V-twin engine that produces about 130 horsepower and delivered to the back wheel through a 6 speed close range gearbox.

The SP1 was designed to compete in the World Superbike Championship and won in 2000 and 2002, Also in 2000 Joey Dunlop won the Formula 1 race at the Isle of Man on the Honda SP1.

A great bike to start off our Show ‘N’ Tell at our bi-monthly meetings, Thanks Mark.