Here's a few dates for your 2012 diary

Leeds MAG 2012 AGM minutes here

Yorkshire Regional minutes for March 2012 here

Saturday 26th May 2012 - Leeds MAG Annual Demo Run Download Poster here
This year the demo run will highlight the ongoing campaign against proposed EU legislation for motorcycles. The run will start and finish at Squires Cafe LS25 5LX. We will be leaving Squires at 2pm for a ride round Leeds city centre and back. Route summary here. Camping will be available on Friday and Saturday night at Squires. A leaflet to be distributed explaining why we are demonstrating is available to download here

Tuesday 5th June 2012 - Leeds MAG 1st June meeting
The Cross Keys, Britannia Road, Morley LS27 0AR. 8pm.

Farmyard Party 15th-17th June 2012 - Tickets now availabe at Leeds Mag meetings. Price £25

Tuesday 19th June 2012 - Leeds MAG 2nd June meeting
The Cross Keys, Britannia Road, Morley LS27 0AR. 8pm.

Sunday 24th June 2012, 13:00 - MAG National Demo Run
Continuing the campaign against EU legislation it is intended to have a co-ordinated European wide demostration on this day. Yorkshire region are still finalising details but if you live further away some of the other start points are here

Sunday, July 1st 2012 - Wakefield & Barnsley MAG Bike Show
Bike Show organised by Barnsley and Wakefield MAG at the popular Dodworth Gala. There will be multiple Show Categories / Awards, catering for all types of Bike, Scooter, Combination & Trike. All Welcome to come along and show off their pride & joy.
Location: Dodworth, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Show to be judged at 15:00, Entry into show from 09:30 onwards (Gala officially opens at 10:00).

Yorkshire Pudding Rally 3rd - 5th August 2012 - Tickets now availabe at Leeds Mag meetings. Price £15

Friday 26th October 2012 - Leeds MAG Halloween Party
The Parkfield Suite, 8 Parkfield Terrace, Stanningley Leeds LS28 6BS 8pm Map here
Disco with live music from Resurgance

Leeds MAG 2012 Event Reports

Well Leeds MAG has hit the ground running in 2012 with two events already and February isn’t even out!

Valentines Party 18th February 2012

Firstly we had the Leeds MAG Valentines party making a welcome comeback after a year off. We again had it at The Parkfield Suite, which seems to suit our needs perfectly. We had a new local band, Maloik, playing for us and they went down a treat and most of our local dealers helped out with raffle prizes to help us raise more funds for MAG. We had over 80 people in attendance, all of who left with big smiles and looking forward to the next Leeds MAG party, which is already booked for the Friday before Halloween! After costs, £340 was raised for MAG.

The following Sunday Leeds MAG organised our annual Fred Hill run. Over the past few years we’ve had a vast array of weather from snow and ice, to wet and then this year, mild, dry and bright, which was a result and encouraged a very good turn out.

Fred Hill Run 26th February 2012

We had 137 bikes setting off from Squires Café to ride the 32 miles to The Sun Inn at Norwood. Conditions were excellent and the positive comments we received on arrival at The Sun will ensure that the Leeds MAG Fred Hill run will always remain as a fixture in the Yorkshire MAG calendar. We did a bucket rattle upon arrival and raised another £143.50 for the MAG fighting fund. Thanks must go to some of our members and also to The East Leeds Lions for their help with the marshalling of the ride, which was impeccable, yet again."

Lineham Farm Easter Egg Run 26th March 2012

On Wednesday 28th March, Leeds MAG had it’s annual Easter Egg run to Lineham Farm childrens centre in Eccup.
32 bikes and 8 trikes left the car park of Cardigan Fields on Kirkstall Road for the marshalled ride across Leeds in the rush hour traffic. We arrived at the farm just before 7pm and were closely followed by six bikes from the East Leeds Lions making a grand total of 46 vehicles.
We were welcomed with tea, pop, hot cross buns and flapjacks, which was very gratefully received.
We then filed into the sitting room and the children came in from the games room, all wide eyed with the masses of Easter eggs we’d brought.
Each group of kids came up in turn and chose an egg from the pile, then picked a cuddly toy from the bag that we’d had donated by a couple of local MAG members (thanks Frank and Denny)
We then presented Lineham Farm with a cheque for £50 that we had raised at our previous meeting, by raffling a large egg that had been donated.
All in all a very successful event that created smiles all round.
A big thanks must go to Maynews, B&M, Poundland, Tescos and Berties Diner as well as all the participants for their kind egg donations.