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| 1984 Sydney NSW 1985 Tumut NSW 1986 Tenterfield NSW 1987 Narrandera NSW 1988 Nambucca Heads NSW 1989 Wollongong NSW 1990 Broken Hill NSW 1991 Glenelg SA 1992 Jindabyne NSW 1993 Shepparton VIC 1994 Alice Springs NT 1995 Toowoomba QLD 1996 Hobart TAS 1997 Wagga Wagga NSW 1998 Bunbury WA 1999 Cairns QL |
2000 Nuriootpa SA 2001 Southport QLD 2002 Mt Gambier SA 2003 Mudgee NSW 2004 Geelong VIC 2005 Canberra ACT 2006 Cradle Coast TAS 2007 Coffs Harbour NSW 2008 Townsville QLD 2009 Nepean NSW 2010 Albany WA 2011 Newcastle 2012 ? 2013 ? 2014 ? 2015 ? |
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 Hill, 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. As at 14/4/07 there are 25,346 financial members.
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.
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