Part of being a club is doing good for the community in which you live. IMC is doing a clean up along the Nishiki River by Kintai-kyo Bridge. We invite all members and riders to take part in this. Everyone who would like to participate is welcome no mater what you drive!
Point of contact is Mike Gingles michael.gingles@usmc.mil
SUNDAY
12 JUNE
0630 AT CROSSROADS FOR RIDERS ON BASE
0700 AT KINTAI AREA
Bike Night by Iwakuni Motorcycle Club
11 July 2009 at 1800
Everyone is welcome!
RSVP with Mike at
Remember No Drinking and Driving; Ride Hard/Ride Safe!
The Motorcycle class schedule for June is:
June 9 ERC
June 11&12 BRC
June 15&16 BRC
June 18 ERC
June 22 ERC
June 24&25 BRC
On 21 June 2009 the monthly meeting of the IMC
Check back for location and time!
The Iwakuni Motorcycle Club and a few Japanese National Police took part in a safety Motorcycle Rodeo. The purpose for the rodeo is to encourage safer riding. Cooperation between the Japanese Government, Iwakuni Motorcycle Club, and Installation Safety was needed for this event. Everyone had a great time and might have learned a little. Thanks to all who assisted with this event, and all those who participated. If you check the link under photos you will find many more pictures from the Motorcycle Rodeo. Click here to go to the pictures!
The proceeds from the 6th annual Oshima Camp Meeting allowed the club to make city donations to Suo-Oshima Town and Iwakuni City. Several members of the club accompanied the club president, Mike Gingles, to the city halls. This gift was presented to the Mayors of each location. This even was covered by several television and newspaper reporters in Japan, also locally with A.F.N. Thank you to all who volunteered and came to the Oshima Camp Meeting, without you this would not have been possible.
（第6回大島キャンプミーティングの収益金で周防大島町，岩国市に寄付をさせていただくことができました。会長のマイクジングルスと何人かのメンバーで周防大島町役場，岩国市役所を訪問し，町長，市長に寄付してまいりました。この様子はテレビ局，新聞社，基地内放送局のAFNの取材を受けています。大島キャンプミーティングに参加していただいた皆様，スタッフとしてして働いてくださったボランティアのおかげと改めて感謝しております。）
Iwakuni Motorcycle Club members ready to donate proceeds from Oshima Camp Meeting to city officials in Suo-Oshima Town and Iwakuni City
（何台かのバイク，車で行ってきました）
Suo-Oshima Town Mayor Takumi Shiiki and Suo-Oshima Town Vice Mayor Haruo Okamura with Iwakuni Motorcycle Club president and members at Town Hall in Suo-Oshima
（椎木 巧 周防大島町長，岡村春雄 同副町長とIMC代表マイク，クラブメンバー）
*Donation of ¥200,000 to Iwakuni CIty
(岩国市へ20万円の寄付）
Iwakuni City Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda and Iwakuni Motorcycle Club President Mike Gingles and Club members
（福田良彦岩国市長とIMC代表マイク，クラブメンバー）
Friends and guest from Friendship Day 2009,
I would like to thank everyone who attended Friendship Day 2009. This year we had over 2,000 motorcycles from all over Japan making it our largest ever here at MCAS Iwakuni. There where bikes and riders from all over Japan in which I took the time to look at each and every bike that came. As a founding member for the Friendship Day Bike Meet you do not know how happy it makes me to see how the event has grown since starting Friendship Day 1992. For the first event we had six motorcycles and it was the six Americans who started the event. This year there were bikes old and new which shows people how much the bikes have changed over the years. For some of us older people it brings back memories from the past. This is was great. There were about 500 bikes that weren’t able to attend the Thunder Run and I am very sorry for this. Please understand that our staff is very small and is responsible for escorting bikes to the parking area, making sure everyone is ready for thunder run, and escorting the thunder run event. This being said and the number of bikes we had it was very difficult to keep the bikes rolling with no gaps. There were a couple of groups that wanted to pull over to the side of the road and wait for their friends to catch up causing a gap of about 250 meters between riders and the rider that was bringing up the end at the gate wasn’t able to see these riders. They thought that was the end of the bikes and he left to be bring up the end of the ride. After he left I looked down the street and saw the bikes coming and it was too late to get them out on the runway. I was told by the military policy to turn the bikes back in which was a hard thing for me to do as a rider and knowing that many of you came mainly for this event. There were several things that went wrong with Thunder Run and I as the president of the Iwakuni Motorcycle Club take responsibility for this. I will do my best to ensure we do not have the same problems next thunder run. I know that many riders traveled long distances to ride on the runway and were turned around at the gate. This also included some of our staff. My deepest apology goes out to each and everyone for this. With the event time line set, we didn’t have enough time to get the rest of the bikes out to the runway and back prior to the next event. With 2,000 bikes and a short time line this takes us all working as a team to make the event happen and we ran out of time. At our next meeting this will be one of our topics for improvement
I hope that next year we can enlist more help (both American and Japanese) to support the event. We had many Japanese volunteers that came from Iwakuni, Hiroshima, and Sasebo to support us, but we fell short on support. For an event this size we need a minimum of 100 staff members to ensure everyone is on their bikes and ready to go. I would like to say if it wasn’t for their help we would not have been able to get as much done as we did. Thank you. I would also like to thank Tak, his family, and Staff for their support for the demonstration he put on. Last I would like to say thank you to all of our Japanese riders who came to Iwakuni Friendship Day 2009 and for being good neighbors. I hope to see you at our next Friendship Day.Ride hard, but ride safe and I hope to see you at some of the up coming rallies.
MikeIwakuni Motorcycle Club President
Thank you to all of those who participated in Friendship Day 2009. There was more than 2000 motorcycles that drove onto MCAS Iwakuni. Thunder Run was a great success and very fun!
第7回ローリングサンダー(2009.5.5 岩国基地フレンドシップデイ)
Check In from Monzen Gate (same as last year)
Gate Open:6:00-9:00
昨年同様，門前ゲートからの入場になります。
9：00までに入門手続きを済ませてください。(念のため，免許証，車検証持参で）
変更の可能性もありますので，更新情報をチェックしてください。
(重要)基地内での交通ルールを守っていただけない方の入場は固くお断りします。
違反者が出た場合は中止もありえます。サンダーラン継続のためには，皆様のご理解，ご協力が必要です。詳細はこちら
36th Annual Friendship Day’s Thunder Run Entrance to the base for motorcycles begins at the Monzen Gate at 0600 – 0900. Members of the Iwakuni Motorcycle Club will be at the gate to escort you to staging area and parking. All participants of the thunder run need to be on base and staged by 0900. Please remember traffic will be heavy, ride safe. Rules of MCAS Iwakuni are enforced. No knives, clubs, gun, replica gun, or weapon or replica weapon will be allowed on base and could get individual escorted off the base. Please remember to bring safety required gear for riding on the air station.
Suo-Oshima Town to receive ¥300,000 Iwakuni City to receive ¥200,000 The 6th Oshima Camp meeting brought out more than 500 people from 17 different prefectures in Japan. This is larger than previous years. People came from Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, Okayama, Shimane, Tottori, Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Saga, Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Kohchi, Ehime, Tokushima, Hyogo, Osaka, Saitama and Tokyo prefectures! With visits from the Vice-Mayor of Suo-Oshima Town and the Mayor of Iwakuni this year’s meeting was a wonderful success. The success would not have been possible without all the volunteers and staff that helped organize and execute this event. The proceeds after expenses are allowing for a donation to not only Suo-Oshima Town but Iwakuni City also. These donations will be delivered in May of this year.
収益金から50万円（周防大島30万円，岩国市20万円）を寄付させていただくことができそうです。5月中にお届けする予定です。
[昨年は30万円（それぞれ20万円，10万円）]
今年は17の都道府県(*)から500人以上の方にご参加いただきました。周防大島副町長，岩国市長にも参加していただき，過去最高のチャリティイベントとなりました。ご協力に感謝いたします。
(*)山口県，広島県，岡山県，島根県，鳥取県，福岡県，熊本県，佐賀県，宮崎県，長崎県，高知県，愛媛県，徳島県，兵庫県，大阪府，埼玉県，東京都
