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GP 500 Club.

#1 Post by Masterbill » Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:36 pm

Hello,

Back in 2001 just after I got my 500, I joined the Gp500 club. This was back in the day when the Internet was relatively new - well it was to me!

The club was for people who owned RD 500 or RG500.

The members list had 28 entries.

You paid a fee and received a quarterly news letter with general chat, tech tips and pictures of members bikes at trackdays etc.

I joined just as it packed up, anyway here are a couple of pages


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Sorry about the last photo -can't seem to get it the right way round!!!

Anybody on here remember the club or know the riders?

I have a more pages which I can upload bit by bit if anyone would like to see.

Cheers Bill
RZV 500R .... I had one for 13 years
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Stan Stevens Stage 3
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#2 Post by Ronnie » Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:03 pm

Great stuff! keep them coming. love reading things like this.

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#3 Post by jackson.40 » Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:21 pm

Thanks for sharing Bill,please post some more up :cool:

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#4 Post by Masterbill » Sun Jan 10, 2010 4:33 pm

Hello again,

Here are a couple of tech tips that you received in your newsletter.

The carb one is handy - I know its been covered on here before with different types of tools that do the same job.

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I have a list of members names that I was going to put up, but I think I'd better remove contact details first!!

Cheers for now
Bill
RZV 500R .... I had one for 13 years
Thundercat Brakes.
Stan Stevens Stage 3
BDK ignition
Nikon Pipes .

350 F2 Zeeltronic, kenny's pipes, PWK,s

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#5 Post by rubberfingers » Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:15 am

Many thanks for taking the time to put theese up
RD500
TZR250 2MA
TZR250 3MA
TDR250
YZF600R
DT125RE
XS750E
DTR125
FZ1

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#6 Post by Masterbill » Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:26 pm

Hello,

Well I've got a bit of time so here are a few more,

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The Irish boys are busy on here at present - maybe they know this one

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The Lurcy Trip was just as popular then as now.

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Something for the RG500 lads.

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Well not to many left to go, hope you enjoy.

Cheers Bill
RZV 500R .... I had one for 13 years
Thundercat Brakes.
Stan Stevens Stage 3
BDK ignition
Nikon Pipes .

350 F2 Zeeltronic, kenny's pipes, PWK,s

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#7 Post by mr sheen » Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:48 pm

Hi Masterbill, GP500 Club! those were the days, originally started by Roger Brown, with Newsletters by Peter Stokes, after a while it was handed over to myself, Debs and Winnie to produce the Newsletters. From the membership at the time there is still a hardcore of us who regularly do trackdays together and the annual trip to France. Roger sold his bike recently, and ended up in my garage :grin: still got old newsletters somewhere, but all very amature when compared to what the French club produces. Still all good fun!

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#8 Post by rubberfingers » Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:41 pm

Hi Guys

Love to see some more of these if you have any

Andy
RD500
TZR250 2MA
TZR250 3MA
TDR250
YZF600R
DT125RE
XS750E
DTR125
FZ1

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#9 Post by Masterbill » Fri Jun 18, 2010 2:14 am

Hello Andy,

Will have a look, but I was on the tail end of it - not sure if there is anything of interest left :sad:
RZV 500R .... I had one for 13 years
Thundercat Brakes.
Stan Stevens Stage 3
BDK ignition
Nikon Pipes .

350 F2 Zeeltronic, kenny's pipes, PWK,s

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#10 Post by simon#51 » Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:13 pm

Hi all, I've been going on the France trip since 2009 and there are about 6 of us that still go, Jeremy and Ian still come along, Jeremy sold his harris this year,but still has rogers nws 500, if you go onto rd500 club de France there are pics of the event dating back to 1999 I think.
Hope you enjoy them, we usually go on the last weekend of June if anyone is up for it since 2009 they have changed the venue to magny cours club circuit in central France awesome track good facility's,rock band and lots of beer :grin:
s harris

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