Ride Through History

Keeping Two Wheeled History Alive in FNQ since 1979

About CMRC
The Cairns Motorcycle Restorers Club, formed in 1979,  is a community of motorcycle enthusiasts dedicated to the restoration, preservation, riding and display of vintage motorcycles.

Today, our members share the passion of older motorcycles and own many but also share the interest of current bikes and enjoy riding both old and new.

With members from all walks of life, our club provides a platform for sharing knowledge, skills, and passion for classic bikes. Whether you're a seasoned collector or a novice restorer, our club welcomes all who share a love for two-wheeled marvels of the past.

Join us in our mission to keep the spirit of classic motorcycles alive and thriving for generations to come.

Join us for exciting motorcycle events throughout the year! From charity rides to bike shows and swap meets, our club organises a variety of events for motorcycle enthusiasts to come together, share their passion, and connect with like-minded riders. Click on the Join us button below.

Weekly rides are posted on our Facebook site, check it out, click on the button below:

Paul Bennet

President

Paul has been the Club’s President now for 3 years and has been around bikes and restorations for most of his life and has been riding bikes since he was 15 years old.

Steve Kay

Vice President

Steve has been riding motorcycles since he was 7 years old . A diesel mechanic by trade and doing all repairs to the bikes on his own. Currently owns 2 Moto Guzzi's, 1 Ducati, 1 Suzuki, and a Yamaha dirt bike. Steve is waiting to retire so he can spend more time riding

Kev Firth

Treasurer

Kev is originally from Yorkshire UK and has been in Australia since 1980. He is interested in all old and modern motorcycles and been with the club 1 year . He is looking forward to helping the club move forward and would like to thank Jeff for his hard work and guidance as retiring treasurer.

Eddie Stockley

Secretary

Eddie is the proud owner of a 750 Norton Commando roadster and a couple of Triumphs, has has been riding bikes for the last 42 years.

Jurg Hold

Webmaster

Jurg has been riding motorcycles for over 45 years . Currently rides a '74 BMW R90/6, a '01 BMW R1100S and a '17 BMW R1200GS. Previously had several other BMW's, Moto Guzzi, Ducati, Honda, Yamaha, Condor, Lambretta and Vespa.

Join us
Are you passionate about classic motorbikes? Do you enjoy bringing vintage machines back to life and riding them with pride? Then the Cairns Motorbike Restorers Club is the perfect place for you!

Why join us?

Community of Enthusiasts: Connect with like-minded individuals who share your love for motorbikes. Exchange tips, tricks, and stories with fellow restorers and riders.
Exclusive Events: Participate in members-only events, including bike shows, rallies, workshops, and social gatherings. Showcase your restoration projects and admire the craftsmanship of others
Technical Support: Gain access to a wealth of knowledge from experienced restorers. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, our members are always ready to lend a hand and offer advice.
Discounts and Benefits: Enjoy special discounts on parts, tools, and services from our trusted partners and potential discounts on registration under the QLD Special Interest Vehicle Concession Scheme guide
Rides and tours: the joy of riding with fellow members on scenic tours and organized ride-outs. Discover new routes, enjoy the camaraderie, and make lasting memories

The Annual Membership of only $50.00 is due on the 1st of July of each year. 

To join us please click on the button below to submit your membership application form:
  •  7/12/2024 12:00 PM
  •   344 Mulgrave Rd, Westcourt QLD 4870, Australia

Monthly meeting and Christmas Luncheon

  •  24/11/2024 12:00 PM
  •   6/8 Catherine St, Malanda QLD 4885

This Sunday ride was a really good ride in mostly good weather, many turned up for Coffee’ and a snack at Ellis Beach, which was a good start, then we left around 10.30am for the Daintree with around 12/14 bikes, a quick stop at Craiglee, then, the lovely Rain-Forest ride to the Daintree Village, lunch at the Crocodile Express Café was great outside, out the back of the Café where there is plenty of room. The ride home was also dry with moderate traffic, a few decided to ride up the Rex Range with Luxy, and then ride down the Kuranda Range

  •  2/11/2024 12:00 PM
  •   42/48 Tingira St, Cairns City QLD 4870, Australia

A really good attendance and a good meeting with plenty discussed, thanks. Meeting minutes were distributed by Paul.

  •  12/10/2024 09:00 AM
  •   Thomas Street, Malanda Queensland, Australia

Monthly ride to Malanda for the car & bike show. We left Macca’s Gordonvale just after 9.00am and rode up to the Malanda Show. A nice turnout and a great variety of bikes and cars at the show! After a good look around and as it was a hot day, we decided not to have lunch and instead ride back, part of the group via the Gillies, part of the group via the Kuranda range.

  •  5/10/2024 12:00 PM
  •   6/8 Catherine St, Malanda QLD 4885

Lunch at mid-day, meeting at 1pm

  •  22/09/2024 09:00 AM
  •   105-115 Cairns Rd, Gordonvale QLD 4865, Australia

Our Monthly Lunch Ride, we met Paul Naylor ( red Moto Guzzi ) in the car park at Macca’s at 9.00am and left around 9.30am to ride up to the Pit-Stop Café at Yungaburra. A number of members were welcoming us up there and soon after we followed Steves lead on a “Loop” ride part of which will be the a Upper Barron Road and ending up at Shaylee’s Strawberry Farm. This was a fantastic loop along various roads which most of us have not been riding on before. As the Strawberry Farm was super busy we decided to move to a Cafe in Yungaburra where we enjoyed a nice lunch. Great ride - great company - great weather with no rain for once!

  •  7/09/2024 11:00 AM
  •   32 Meerawa Rd, Aloomba QLD 4871, Australia

A really good Monthly Meeting at the Meerawa Hot-Rod Clubhouse on Saturday, September the 7th, and an excellent attendance, especially considering the weather forecast, everyone had a great social time with less than usual Car Club Members, but there was the Mount Garnet Car Show & the Babinda Festival on with many car guys heading to either, plus the fore mentioned weather forecast. Future meetings at the Meerawa Club will require much more respect when entering and leaving this property, the Clubhouse is surrounded by private properties that naturally require as little exhaust, and other noise as possible, this is just plain common sense, thanks to all.

  •  25/08/2024 09:30 AM
  •   99-107 Anderson St, Manunda QLD 4870, Australia

A good ride yesterday in nice cool weather, the Lake Barrine Tearooms were awesome and very much now again “Open for Business” and we will use them more often. Steve and Rhonda took us on a back-roads ride through the Western side of Mareeba coming back in through the Industrial Centre of Mareeba, somewhere most hadn’t been through before, then down the Kennedy Hi-way via Kuranda, then down through Smithfield to Brothers Footy Club for a good lunch. A ride we may build on, or do backwards next year, ………………… looking forward to your feed-back during the next few meetings.

  •  11/08/2024 09:30 AM
  •   109-127 Mulgrave Rd, Parramatta Park QLD 4870, Australia

The 2024 Cairns Car & Bike Swap Meet went as well as it could considering the weather forecasted, a good set-up day on Saturday the 10th of August went well with a reasonable number of members present, and thanks to those who helped with Gazebo set-up etc. Sunday was a wet start, but over-all a very good day was had by all who attended and a great Public Attendance considering the bleak weather forecast, but we certainly didn’t get the forecasted weather. A lovely array of both bikes and cars to perv on, our Club scooped up most of the Motorcycle awards with Jim McKenzie-Smith taken 2 awards for this just finished, and beautiful R90S BMW, Eddie Stockley for his Norton 750, Rosco’s Kawasaki H1500 with other potential members, a lovely GSXR750, Honey with her beautiful HD Chopper, and a very nice HD Springer taking the best American.

  •  20/07/2024 02:00 PM
  •   131 Bruce Hwy, El Arish QLD 4855, Australia

A marvellous facility and deserves a good attendance, organised by Peter Boric and Jim Mac. Perfect weather greeted Eddie Stockley and Paul Naylor at Gordonvale, they proceeded up the Gillies to Yungaburra, also in perfect weather and met up with Steve, Rhonda, Chris and Pete. We rode up the upper Barron road and down Gentle Annie to avoid roadworks between Malanda and Millaa for lunch at Rumours Cafe. The local Lions club was having a free sausage sizzle, so all of us had a freebie before lunch at Rumours. Great ride down the Palmerston with Paul Naylor heading back at the south Johnston turnoff, Chris had turned back earlier at Millaa. Eddie, Pete, Rhonda and I journeyed on thru South Johnston to meet Peter Boric, Jim Mac, Steve and Allison, Carl and Kathy at El Arish for lunch at Bingil Bay where Peter took over and guided us thru backroads to the Bowhunters for a meet and greet. The motel stayers left to check in with the idea of phoning a cab to get back at around 6.30pm for a bbq tea, however Telstra had other plans. Unbeknown to us Telstra was upgrading in the area, so no one had signal. Talked to the motel owner who offered his landline to ring a cab, but the Tully taxi service, god bless them, were not at home. Enter Tina Stockley who saves the day, she had driven down to stay with Eddie at the motel, so, we had wheels. The bbq tea, cheap beer, the facilities and the hospitality of the bow hunters was outstanding as always thanks to Peter Boric and the Bowhunters committee. Jim Mac displayed his recently and beautifully restored 1977 BMW R90/S (one of Don Roy’s). 8am the next morning we returned for breakfast and a non eventful ride home. Steve W.

  •  6/07/2024 12:00 PM
  •   42/48 Tingira St, Cairns City QLD 4870, Australia

AGM and monthly meeting - Cruising Yacht Club - lunch from Midday - AGM from 1.00pm upstairs

  •  23/06/2024 10:00 AM
  •   105-115 Cairns Rd, Gordonvale QLD 4865, Australia

A great turn-out with a very enjoyable ride, not quite the bright sunshine we all would have liked, but getting there, I think the Ravenshoe Hotel food was good and I will start to organise our overnighter for October the weekend of 12th/13th and will discuss, along with other rides and over-nighters at the AGM.

  •  1/06/2024 11:00 AM
  •   32 Meerawa Rd, Aloomba QLD 4871, Australia

Thanks to all who attended our combined Social Event and our Monthly Meeting at the Top of The State Hot-Rod & Custom Car Club. The mornings early weather looked ordinarily, which may have kept some locked up at home, but the day cleared and we had a great and very social day with the Car Club members, we all enjoyed a lovely BBQ cooked by Steve, Kev & Eddie, also many thanks to the Car Clubs Committee who not only provide the Club-house, but clean it on the Friday before, get there at 9.30am Sunday morning and spend the day with us. A SPECIAL thanks to Tania, Alison, Paz, Dawn & Tina who prepared all the salads, condiments and helped hand-out food, then cleaned up afterwards, it was also great to see so many other wife’s/partners attend, for these Social Events, Saturday’s ( June ) , our September meeting ( Saturday the 7th ) also at Meerawa, and naturally the Christmas Party, which will again be at Gazlay’s Footy Club, Saturday 7th December, we really encourage all wife’s and partners to come and have a nice lunch and a drink or two. We also had Harry & Bev as guests with Harry’s lovely Velo, and we welcome two new members: Hector & Sam Harm ( GPZ750 ).

  •  26/05/2024 10:00 AM
  •   12-20 English St, Malanda QLD 4885, Australia

We met at the McDonalds Gordonvale at 9.30am for coffee and left at around 10.00am, riding up the Gillies on a mostly dry road to Yungaburra where we stopped at the Strawberry farm for a coffee. As the sun came through for a bit we decided to go for a Tablelands loop ride via Herberton & Bromley Swamp, but the rain caught up with us quickly. Despite that we had a nice ride to Malanda where we enjoyed our lunch in the ball room. A good turnout and nice ride despite the reasonably average and unpredictable weather!

  •  4/05/2024 12:00 PM
  •   341 Mulgrave Rd, Bungalow QLD 4870, Australia

A great turn out - over 60 bikes on display - check out the Gallery on our website for more and full size pictures

  •  14/04/2024 10:00 AM
  •   Yorkeys Knob QLD, Australia

Met at Ten06 Cafe Yorkeys Know at 10am, took off for a ride to Julatten Hotel for lunch - then back via Mt Molloy and via Kuranda or Gillies Range. A really good ride yesterday and the weather remained good as forecast and it was great to see a few who hadn’t been on a ride for a while, I didn’t count, but around 15 plus on the ride, a few turned around at the top of the Rex look-out, or at the Julatten Hotel as they had other commitments, but a good turn-out, ………….. for those like Tania and I who hadn’t been along the Coast Road since December, it was very telling of the damage back then, but also of the huge clean-up that Main Roads and others have completed, whilst we didn’t stop, it was great to see the Ellis Beach Café really busy and based on the traffic, Port Douglas must also have been busy, we had a good ride home back via Yungaburra and down the Gillies in reasonably light traffic given the end of the School Holidays

  •  6/04/2024 12:00 PM
  •   134 Sheridan Street, Cairns City QLD, Australia

Mike will provide a BBQ from mid-day. Undercover parking available for bikes

  •  24/03/2024 10:00 AM
  •   12-20 English St, Malanda QLD 4885, Australia

Met McDonalds Gordonvale at 9.30am for coffee and discuss a short ride. Followed by a ride up to Yungaburra and then heading to Malanda for lunch. Due to the rather miserable weather not many members turned up but the few that did still enjoyed their ride and the catch up and lunch.

  •  3/03/2024 12:00 PM
  •   Mountain View Hotel Gillies Range Road, Little Mulgrave QLD, Australia

Monthly meeting - lunch at midday, meeting at 1.00PM

  •  26/02/2024 12:00 PM
  •   Kuranda QLD, Australia

Short ride - Wet Season

  •  4/01/2024 12:00 PM
  •   90 Gordon St, Gordonvale QLD 4865

Meeting will be a ride from the Parkview Hotel to the Car Club after lunch at around 1.00pm

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Pin-striping & Sign Writing

Rod Northey - Malanda - Ph 0417 790 457 Rod (a retired sign writer/pin-striper can also do gold leaf work) based in Maland and happy to so small work projects.

Vapour Blasting

Vapour Blasting. Dip&Strip Metal Restoration. 122 Buchan Street, Cairns. Phone Mark on 0428 885 846 for cleaning,stripping,glass bead vapour blasting.

Two-Pack and Clear painting of frames/tanks

Paul Jerome Paint & Panel, 5 Gowan Street, Mareeba QLD 4880 Ph: 4092 2978 Two-Pack and Clear painting of frames/tanks. Paul is familiar with old fashion tradesman workmanship. Can mix colors on-site to provide original color of vintage machines.

Corks for vintage style clutches

D&B Wholesale PO Box 264, Glen Iris, VIC, 3146 Ph: 03 9885 1855 Can provide fine natural corks of various sizes (not compressed cork pieces).$100 minimum order (probably enough to do two sets of clutch plates on most motorcycles

Perrott Engineering

Lee Perrott- 120 Kenny St, Portsmith QLD 4870 Ph (07) 4040 9800 Gear Cutting - General Engineering - Cerakote thin-film protective ceramic coatings used on motorcycle hub’s etc, handlebars and all sorts of alloy items

Locky's Shoe Repairs

Shop 10/B/117 Bruce Hwy, Edmonton QLD 4869 Ph 0409 585 044 Boot and Shoe Repairer fixing and altering boots, shoes, bags, belts, luggage and other leather goods. Can fix all zips, leather and vented jackets, leather tool bags, tank-bags, just about anything.

  • Cairns QLD 4870, Australia
  • PO Box 6560