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Pattaya Motorcycle Club
enjoys inaugural ride
The Pattaya Motorcycle Club kick started into life last
month, with meetings being held every Friday evening at the “Old Speckled
Hen” pub on Jomtien Beach Road Soi 9. This is a non-discriminatory club
with members from any nationality and riding any make of machine being
welcome, the only proviso being your machine should be able to cruise
comfortably at 80kmph, with overtaking, or “get out of an emergency
situation quickly” speed of up to 100kmph. (We are not suggesting you
break the speed limit but need to be sure your machine is sufficiently large
enough to handle long tours!) It is a highly social “family” style club,
where your wife/girlfriend will be as welcome as you.
 With
18 motorcycles, 1 support vehicle and 40 club members (the majority being
female Thai pillions piloted by English, Australian, German, Canadian,
Welsh, New Zealand, Dutch and American riders), the Pattaya Motorcycle
Club’s first run was an extremely successful event.
With this in mind regular club rides are to be conducted
using sensible cruising speeds with riders spaced evenly in a staggered
formation, with an experienced ride leader or “road captain” in front,
and an equally responsible “tail end Charlie” bringing up the rear. All
rides will have been thoroughly reconnoitered with the road captain knowing
where all petrol, refreshment and sightseeing stops are in advance. Whilst
this type of club and riding is not to everyone’s liking or style it is
going to be the format for the Pattaya Motorcycle Club, again emphasizing
the “family” aspect ... some of our wives or junior pillions may not
actually like blasting along at 100kmph!
The club’s first run was held on Sunday September 7:
this was a 100km round trip to Nu’s Cafe on Ban Chang Beach, taking in
some lovely scenic routes including the temples and lake at Wat Yan Sang
Wararan and the Buddha Mountain, Khao Chi Chan. With 18 motorcycles, 1
support vehicle and 40 club members (the majority being female Thai pillions
piloted by English, Australian, German, Canadian, Welsh, New Zealand, Dutch
and American riders) it was an extremely successful event with all members
happy and enthusiastic for this club to continue.
Ideas and proposals for regular ride destinations are
welcome from all: next month the club will hopefully be riding to Laem Mae
Phim on the coast in Rayong Province for an overnight stop, after which they
will build up to a week long tour in December to Chiang Mai for the 3rd
Annual Chiang Mai Bike Week.
So, if you are reading about this club for the first
time, if you are a motorcycle enthusiast who wants to meet, ride and
socialize with other motorcyclists, if you have a wife or girlfriend who
would like to join you for a ride rather than sit at home while you go
“out with the boys” come along to the “Old Speckled Hen” in Jomtien
on any Friday at 7 p.m. and check out the Pattaya Motorcycle Club ...
they’re user friendly!
Contact: Martin Smith, Pattaya Motorcycle Club, tel. 09
990 9342, e-mail: [email protected] or see the website:
www.pattaya-mc.itgo.com
German celebrity celebrates his birthday at Pattaya’s Casa Pascal Restaurant
Casa Pascal is becoming more and more renowned as
“the” place to celebrate birthdays. Restaurateur Hannes Suhm, alias Rudi
Kn๖pfli, a famous radio entertainer from Germany, celebrated
his 44th birthday on September 2 at Casa Pascal.
Hannes came all the way to Pattaya for this special occasion to be with his
good friends, including Pascal Schnyder and his wife Kim, Ranjith
Chandrasiri and his wife Chitra, Elfi Seitz and Dieter H. Pr้court.
 Hannes
blows out the candles on his birthday cake.
Also joining the birthday party were Fridolin Schnyder,
Pascal’s father and two friends of Hannes from Freiburg in Germany, Bernd
Winkler and Peter Leube, who traveled with him to Pattaya.
The party started with champagne and ended with excellent
wines from the Pascal “wine cellar”. In-between a fabulous menu was
served, much to the delight of all the party guests.
We don’t exactly know when the party ended, but it was
said, it had been very “early” (in the wee hours of the morning)!
PILC Holiday Bazaar 2003 just two weeks away
The PILC Holiday Bazaar 2003 is in just two weeks time
and being held at the Royal Cliff’s Grand Orchid Hall on Saturday October
4th lasting from 10 a.m. through 4 p.m. Come and enjoy the fun! Year after
year this event is going from strength to strength. This year we will have
over 60 vendors, some new, from all over Thailand and around the world
bringing you the best for your shopping pleasure.
There will be fresh water pearls, silver, onyx and other
various types of jewelry. You can shop for fabulous furniture, ornaments,
antiques, children’s books, greeting cards, fabrics, bags; Japanese
kimonos, educational toys, angels and deer, lacquer-ware, clothes, pottery,
Christmas ornaments, paintings, fruit cakes, and we can certainly go on and
on! Don’t miss it! Most items are manufactured for export and not to be
found in Southeast Asia.
We have other fabulous prizes for our grand raffle such
as jewelry from Thai Byoux, gold from Larn Thong, gym memberships from
Marriott Resort and Dusit Resort, treatments from Beauty House, carpets from
Pandit, 21 inch JVC flat screen TV set, bicycles, handbags from Jim
Thompson. Also featured are vouchers from Amari Orchid Resort, Bruno’s,
The Balcony, Pan Pan, Foodland, Friendship, Horseshoe Point, Hard Rock
Hotel, Estee’ Beauty Salon, Pattaya Mail, and again countless more items.
Transpo International will be there to help out and pack
free of charge any items you may wish to send back home. For more
information contact Arlette Cykman PILC, chairperson special events, at
038-300-325.
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