New Date for the Silverwater Motor Festival

The Silverwater Motor Festival has been re-scheduled for Saturday May 12. Thanks to Auburn Council the Festival incorporating the Silverwater Street and Custom Motorcycle Show and the Silverwater Custom and Classic Car Show will be on again at Silverwater Park, with live music, kids entertainment, trade and social club displays plus door prizes and competition trophies .

Check out the 2012 Silverwater Motor Festival section for more details including early bird discounts.

Also anyone with early bird tickets and passes from March 3 please keep them to use on May 12.

Motorcycle TV Series on Weekly

Don’t forget that Temporary Australians airs every episode weekly in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Geelong, Adelaide and the following week in Perth.

It is also available on line from Sydney’s TVS who broadcast throught their website.

For details go to www.temporaryaustralians.com.au

Radio Show to be Heard Nationally

• Humorous stories of a motorcycle nature
• Interviews with well known motorcycle riders
• Stories from Aussie motorcycle clubs about their positive activities
• Update of some key motorcycling issues
• News on local and national motorcycle events (especially for those listening online)
• Studio guests to talk about their personal motorcycling experiences
• And lots of great Aussie rock, blues and alternate music, plus a little overseas stuff.

Called Ride the weekly programme will reach a national audience through 2CCR’s website which broadcasts all its programmes online and can be heard in Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Tasmania at 10pm, South Australia, Broken Hill and the Northern Territory at 9.30pm and in Western Australia at 8pm.

Special Online Deal for Greg’s Books

My Motorcycling Life Part 1 and 2 are now available together for only $29.95 plus postage and handling. All you need do is go to How to get the Books on this site and you can buy them online through Paypal.

Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett  helped at Book Promotion

Peter Garrett, former front man for famous rock band Midnight Oil and now the Australian Federal Environment Minister, assisted in a promotion for Greg’s book at the opening of the new Fraser Motorcycles’ Store on Parramatta Road at Concord in Sydney on Saturday, November 15, 2008.

Greg was present from 9am to sign copies of the book based on 30 years of motorcycling experiences and was joined by Peter from 9.30am to 10.15am. After signing a few copies of ‘My Motorcycling Life’ he was given a tour of the new upmarket motorcycle store by Frasers’ Warren Lees and then joined Greg and Brendan Jones from WSFM on stage.

Peter, who had just finished reading Greg’s book the night before, spoke in glowing terms of Greg’s work with the homeless of Sydney’s West and of his new endeavour in writing down some of his experiences within the motorcycle lifestyle.

Peter and Greg have kept in contact since the early nineties when his former band Midnight Oil did a fundraiser to assist Brotherhood Christian Motorcycle Club and Anglicare in the development of services to homeless youth in the Parramatta region.

“My Motorcycling Life- Part 2″

The next instalment of Greg’s motorcycling life is available at the Sydney Motorcycle Show this weekend (November 20-22) at the Brotherhood CMC Stand (250) at the the Sydney Showgrounds, Homebush. The launch of Part 2 will be on Saturday November 21 at 3pm at the inside stage. Drop in to get a copy of both Part 1 and 2 at a special show price of $30 or get Part 2 at $20.

“Greg Hirst has been a fixture in the Australian motorcycle community for many years now. Well known for his advocacy work through the motorcycle community and for those caught in the cycle of homelessness, Greg has been riding motorcycles for over thirty years.

“From his adventures growing up with bikes to the Bathurst Motorcycle Riots or riding on to Telstra Stadium in a motorcycle spectacular, Greg’s met a few characters along the way. He’s a strong family man too, with his loving wife Colleen and five children, and for years has been heavily involved with political rallying which has seen fantastic success.

“As well as having written articles for a range of national motorcycle magazines, for the last 14 years Greg has worked on many regular motorcycle features in the Daily and Sunday Telegraph’s Cars Guide and continues his 30 year involvement with Brotherhood Christian Motorcycle Club where he serves as Sgt-at-Arms. My Motorcycling Life is a lighthearted look at a true Australian motorcyclist doing what he loves.” — Miles Rangeley, editor: ‘My Motorcycle Life’ and ‘Live to Ride’ Magazine.