BMWMCQ BooK EXChANGE

Kommuning!

Cindy Bennett, Member #4170

With a recent trip to Victoria for the Compass Expeditions “Welcome Back” event we took the opportunity to again hire bikes for the weekend. Sadly the offerings have diminished since Covid with the only availability being Royal Enfields through a company called Oxford Street Garage. This article is not a review of these bikes - Duncan has already covered that in this Journal. I am going to write about the “Kustom Kommune” workshop that we had the pleasure of experiencing when picking up and dropping of the bikes. The concept is a shared space of a “do it yourself” workshop where Melbourne apartment dwellers (and others) can come and work on their machine projects - they call it a Moto Community! When we returned our hire bikes on Sunday late afternoon the workshop was in full swing with all 3 bike lifts having a “patient” onboard. A scrambler project, a custom cafe racer and the skeleton of an R65 were spied by us. There is a bar and cafe area in the workshop and a local craft brewery (approximately 30m away) sponsors them by providing product monthly! There is a similar arrangement here in Brisbane with Skinny’s Garage which is a bike workshop during daylight hours but evenings and weekends are open to enthusiasts to work on their particular project. Here are some pics of the Oxford Street Garage Kustom Kommune.

Pablo the Pug - the workshop mascot!

BMWMCQ BOOK EXCHANGE

NEW BooKS AVAilABlE!

Race to Dakar Charley Boorman Extreme Frontiers Charley Boorman (Racing Across Canada) What If I Had Never Tried It Valentino Rossi (The Autobiography) The Road to Mali Craig Carey-Clinch No Room for Watermelons Ron & Lynne Fellowes

A Motorcycle Courier in the Great War Captain W.H.L. Watson Australia Motorcycle Atlas With 200 Top Rides (6th Ed) Hema Maps Overland Magazines - issue #’s 11; 19; 21; 22; 25; 26; 27; 28 and 29. Adventure Bike Rider - issue #’s 44; 46; 51 and 53 The Touring Motorcycle Jeff Ware & Kris Hodgson BMW Twins Mick Walker BMW Boxer Twins Ian Falloon BMW Motorcycles Bruce Preston A Century of BMW Manfred Grunet & Florian Triebel The BMW Story - Production & Racing Motorcycles Ian Falloon Bahnstormer - The Story of BMW Motorcycles LJK Setright BMW Company History 1972 BMW Munich

2UP and OVERLOADED 2 x On Tour with Compass Expeditions DVDs

The initiative is being overseen by jane Gray and you can communicate with jane via email at:

library@bmwmcq org au

Arrangement can be made with the librarian to pick up & drop off at the monthly General Meeting or other arrangements can be made