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The EACC is a brand-new club that's 26 years old! The original EACC was formed in 1981 by Andrew Roddham, Simon Whitehead, Andrew Pattle and Kevin Mallone. You can read more about the early days of the EACC in The Moped Archive. Of the four, Kevin and Simon grew up and gave up this stupid cyclemotoring years ago. The two Andrews are both still involved in the hobby and both are giving their support to the reincarnated EACC.
In 1986, to reflect the fact that its membership spread far wider than just East Anglia, the EACC changed its name to the National Autocycle and Cyclemotor Club. Little else changed. The NACC carried on in the spirit of the original club for almost another 20 years. But in 2006 - the club's 25th Anniversary year - things started to go wrong.
These things happen in all clubs from time to time. Dissent builds up, there's a big argument, a few people leave then it all blows over and the club carries on. The big difference with the NACC is that it hasn't blown over, the arguments got worse and still carry on. That's the background - but this site is supposed to be about the EACC, not the NACC.
The desire to get away from petty politics was a major spur towards setting up a new club but it's a wrench to abandon a club you've been very involved with for many years. Rather than abandon their club, a couple of NACC members - Mark Daniels and Andrew Pattle - decided to try breath a bit of life back into it. They launched the Iceni CAM Magazine. This was intended to be an informative and politics-free magazine for their local NACC Sections but it has since, of necessity, become an independent publication.
Mark's expulsion from the NACC provided the final push towards reviving the EACC. Every year, the NACC's Suffolk Section stages a club stand at the Copdock Motorcycle Show; on two occasions it has been awarded the 'Best Club Stand' prize. Mark is the main organiser of this and this year, with the preparations for the show well under way, he found himself faced with a club stand booked at the show but expelled from the club. Using the old name of East Anglian Cyclemotor Club as a 'flag of convenience' for the show solved that problem but, of course, when visitors came to the stand, they wanted to join.
It had to be done. After a bit of discussion, it was agreed that the 'Kneel's Wheels' Run, just a few weeks after Copdock, would be a good time for the relaunch of the club.
Now we have to decide what he new club will do. We're going to try to avoid any great duplication of effort so, for example, we're closely associated with Iceni CAM Magazine. After all, why go to all the expense of producing a flashy magazine when there's a perfectly good one already available? We're probably just going to bumble along for a while. Membership is growing and the news of the club is spreading. The hope is that as more people join up, we'll have a better idea of the direction the club will take. That, after all, is the main aim of the club - and the reason it was formed: to be guided by the wishes of its members.
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