Hello Gents,

It's been a while since I have posted anything, and I'm not sure if this is even the right area to post this. Doesn't seem to be a off topic area so if this is not the right category, feel free to move it.  I posted this once before about this time last year that the VMBC has been offered again a spot to advertise our club at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, IA. The Vintage Rally Show will be held Saturday June 10th, 2017. We have the opportunity to advertise our club in a space provided by the museum for free. All we need is a VMBC member willing to represent our club and answer any questions that may come his, her way. Last year we provided a few magazines and club business cards to pass out for free at the event. You could google the event for more information if you'd like. The only catch is we need to have an idea if we would like to reserve a space within a week. So if you'd like to represent our club please email me at dchafin1122@gmail.com asap.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. See you all at Portland in just a few more months!
Darren Chafin 

Heck I didn't know there are 4 positions. I can feel two or maybe three. When I get things along a little more I'll have to play around with it.

Hello all,
Portland is just around the corner and I'm in a mad dash to try and get this girl done, but I'm having some issues. One thing that is baffling me is the ignition switch. I figured I might get an answer here. I have a 303 headlight with a Simplex switch in it. How many positions should the switch have? Of course there is off and on but it there another position where it allows the ignition to remain on while lights are off? The switch has 4 leads on the back of it. I take it two supply power to the headlight ( one for each filament). The other two are run to the back of the headlight posts or terminals. One to kill the motor and one to a positive to supply power to the headlight. So far does this sound right? What's got me puzzled is the tail light. Is it always on with no way to turn it off? This is all based on typical Simplex operation.

any help will be appreciated.

Someone had replied to my message and sent me a message via Facebook (I think) and I lost it or it just disappeared. Anyway I can't find it and the message consisted of tank decals. I only got a glance at it. If you see this please send it again. Thanks

Hello all,
I just thought I'd stop in and say hi. Hope everyone is good. I thought that the VMBC forum had just died to nothing, well I mean forum traffic is slow and I was wondering if this site was experiencing the same. It looks that way. Maybe it's the weather. It's hard to think of riding a motorbike when the temps outside are below 0!!! Jeez!! What a winter. Thinking positive now. Spring will be here shortly before you know it. The spring magazine should be in your mailbox soon if it hasn't already. This is going to be an exciting year for us. The VMBC banquet will be held on the grounds for the first time ever. Hopefully it will allow many more to attend that just don't have a way to get to Romers. So if you think you might attend please send in your registration asap! That way we can get an idea of attendance. Kaitlyn is going to have a baby soon and her response may be delayed compared to previous years.

The VMBC website was working perfectly vintagemotorbikeclub.org until just yesterday half of the hompage turned up missing. Don't know why. looking into it! Anyway if all looks ok we have a free T-shirt contest going on in the off-topic forum. Check it out for details. 

Hello gents and fellow scooter aficionados. If you would like to talk about a little more than Simplex Motorbikes the VMBC (vintagemotorbikeclub.org)forums is completely up and running. I just tried changing my wife's profile with just her password and all seemed to go well. She has the same hoops to go through as all of you meaning if she can do it, so should you in theory. Some of you may have tried to register when the site wasn't working correctly thus you never received a password to join in on the forums. That problem is now fixed! If you had tried once before to register, it will not send you another password again. So I had sent those of you who already registered a temporary password. With this password you may enter the website forums under login and click on your profile. The problem of not getting into your profile is now fixed. When on your profile page, it will give you the option to edit (very bottom) your profile allowing you to change your password.

After doing this you should be able to post whatever. Be sure that you logout before leaving the site.  Otherwise the site will recognize you as already logged in when you return.


The one downfall of the site is no real recognition that you are logged in. The only way to know is the wording in the top right of the screen will give you the option to logout next to your profile. I may have left something out of this process but I don't think so. I had about thirty some wanna be members  that I had to develop passwords for that I had to manually pass out, so I may have goofed on one or two. It got kinda monotonous. At any rate if you encounter problems getting in or whatever, just send me an email to dchafin1122@gmail.com subject VMBC Forums

I seldom can do anything until the evening hours so it may be a day before I can fix any problem that you may experience.

Until then I hope you enjoy the new and improved VMBC website!  vintagemotorbikeclub.org

Well the 42nd Vintage Motorbike Meet held in Portland Indiana is fast approaching. While our website is up and running, it has been a struggle and disappointment this past year. We are still believe it or not working on getting a more modern forum built for it. It will not be done before this upcoming meet though. However, we have formed a Facebook group. Of course it takes friends to make a group click on Facebook. If you would like to join our group and hear the latest in what's happening with the VMBC please put a request in to join at Vintage Motor Bike club! Pay close attention to the spelling and font because there are many other groups on Facebook with like wording. If you see Jenni affiliated with it that is the group you want. Someone has mentioned the dates of our meet, but I have no idea who that is. Give us a 12 hour period to welcome you into the group.

If I don't hear from you in our Facebook group I will look forward to seeing you all at Portland. Take care and ride safe!

Darren Chafin
VMBC President