On Friday the 14th of March, West Coast HD hosted a Harley Party at the dealership. The dealership extended their appreciation to members of Clyde Valley HOG who helped out with marshalling the event and keeping the BBQ going. In attendance, aside from lots of Clyde Valley HOG members were the lads from Bobhead, Gordon Seith with the music and Gav Cupit from HD Europe presenting his VR1000.
The event raised over £1000 for the Prostate Cancer Charity!
Bob HeadSportster tankChumsAirBagsBBQDenisBikesIan MacKayCrewGordon Seith
The evening was a great success and Nicole Tanzabel took the images you see above, which she has kindly shared with us. You can see the full set of images if you pop over to our Flickr archive below.
Photos from 2025 Harley party at WCHD, taken by Nicole Tanzabel.
As we have now meteorologically speaking, crossed into Springtime and with the AGM it feels like the season is upon us. It will take a few more weeks before the Chapter is firing on all cylinders ready to get us on the road: Road Crew Training is the next stage…but the CVH 2025 riding year is all but upon us.
AGM turn outbikes at Riverside museum
So a great start today with a very well attended AGM…it was standing room only and in fact I think a few members couldn’t even get in the room!
Stevie Trainor
First off we had a review of the 2024 year and the moneys raised for our two main charities, the Glasgow Sick Kids and Breast Cancer Support charities. For 2025 these will continue to be supported but we will be looking for some further suggestions on this front. One is likely to be a Prostate Cancer charity.
We also got two certificates from HOG UK for our Ride 365 numbers….they were not great but it isn’t something the chapter pushes so hard even though we do put a lot of miles under the tyres of a season.! 🙂
Don about to lead us off with the Chapter Song….Dave gave us an overview of dealership activities.
We had a report from Don Rutherford and Dave Hackshall from WCHD our sponsoring Dealership, with a review of activities they have lined up ( check out our Events Calander for dates of Meet the Chapter Nights and WCHD Bike Nights) and there are a few BBQ events to come along as well, the first will be the Easter weekend after the Easter Egg run. The dealership is hoping chapter members might be able to assist in 2025 with some of the dealership events as stewards or representing the Chapter to attract members.
Then we had the presentation of Chapter Officer patches for the new committee members.
Janice Graham moves to Assistant Director. Willie Galloway becomes Treasurer. Sean Ferguson is Secretary. Chris Kelly moves to Head Road Captain. Nicole Tanzabel becomes Ladies of Harley Officer. Frazer Auld joins the committee as Photographer. Paula Taylor and Ben Vale are our new Activities Officers. Some photos below more will be added once I get them from Fraz!
Janice Graham Assistant Director Chris Kelly is HRCNicole Tanzabel is LoH Officer.Paula Taylor is Activities OfficerFrazer is Photographer
Then we had awards of appreciation for Tina Taylor and Davy Henderson standing down as Activities Officers and Scott Grove standing down as Assistant Director. Scott gave a final demonstration to the Chapter of how the delete Button works.
Tina Taylor being thanked for her years as Activities Officer.We were all wondering what prize Davy was about to get from Stevie….Imagine Davy’s relief that it was a Bottle of Malt….Scott gave his final demo of the Delete Button to Burnsy.
Finally a short introduction or review of activities was given by each Officer.
2024 Yearbooks.
The Chapter 2024 Photo Yearbook is available to order. To keep things simple and to raise a few more pennies for charity, the books can be purchased by members for £40. The profit’s arising will go to the chapter charity funds. Members should contact Kenny ASAP where you will be added to a temporary WhatsApp group so the funds can be collected in and you can be notified when the books come available to collect.
Last Saturday was the last (official) ride out of the season …though judging by the weather currently there still seems to be a week or two left with great bike conditions. It was our sponsoring dealer’s event, West Coast Harley Davidson’s Harleyween weekend. Additionally, the Clyde Valley Ladies of Harley organized their Strawberry Tea event in support of Breast Cancer Care in Glasgow.
With the End of Season Mystery Ride needing to be canned the previous weekend due to the storm front that swept through Scotland, it was decided to have a wee compensatory ride out to end the season on tarmac before everyone headed in to eat cake.
For the ride out we went a nice wee loop down to Stewarton then across by Newton Mearns and back up through Barrhead to WCHD. A ride of about 80 minutes or so and one in which we encountered what seemed like 4 seasons on one run. It was warm, it was cold, it was wet and it was dry, but we had some great ( new to us) roads on the route and its one to bear in mind for drier warmer days.
Back at WCHD it was Spooky goings on and much cakery with a Tarot Card reader, and face painting on the go as well. Lots of people made an effort with the fancy dress and the Ladies made a fantastic £660 pounds for Breast Cancer Care.
Read more of what we have been up to in the items below
This past weekend saw us do something a wee bit different for the Director’s Ride Out – rather than heading out into the hills, the… Read more: Director’s Ride Out
With the summer holidays in full swing and plenty of folk off on their travels, we still had 12 bikes heading out for Glentrool yesterday… Read more: Glentrool Ride Out
Great turnout on Saturday for the Wemyss Bay Fly By – a circular ride out from West Coast Harley-Davidson! With plenty of bikes on the… Read more: Wemyss Bay Fly By
On Saturday, we kicked off the riding season with an overnight trip to the Buccleuch Arms in Moffat, attracting nearly 40 Harleys and over 50 members. Despite changing weather, we arrived safely and enjoyed the hotel’s amenities. The night was filled with laughs and mischief, marking a successful start to the season. It was great too, to have both old and new members along for the fun.
