About The Club
How it all began
The Ulysses Club for older motorcyclists, the largest organization of it's kind in Australia, is now a familiar part of this country's
riding scene. The original suggestion for a club for over 50's motorcyclists was put forward in a letter by Stephen Dearnley published
in the August 1983 issue of Bike Australia. This drew two significant responses: one from Rob Hall, a reader at Albion Park NSW, who
suggested the present name and motto for the club: the other from Peter Thoeming, then the editor of Bike Australia who sketched the
logo and offered support from his magazine if Stephen could get the club off the ground. This was done at an inaugural meeting in
Sydney on 6th December, 1983 when the five people present approved a basic constitution and the Ulysses Club was duly formed.
From that tenuous beginning it has never looked back and the club now boasts a large and extensive network of members throughout Australia.
From that tenuous beginning it has never looked back and the club now boasts a large and extensive network of members throughout Australia.
Why Ulysses
The name comes from a poem of the same title by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It tells how the great Greek hero Ulysses, now middle-aged and securely in charge of his kingdom of Ithaca, is getting bored with things around him and longs to go adventuring again with his shipmates of old. It describes very well indeed the sort of person who still has enough spark to go on riding into middle and later years. Too long to quote here, you will find it in any good poetry anthology such as the Albatross Book of Verse.