Club History

The bike club now known as 'The Brickies Bike Club' started out in 1989 as 'Thick As A Brick MCC', meeting at the Bricklayers Arms in Altrincham.

There have been many changes in membership and committee positions and the club was at its largest in the mid 90’s with over 60 active members.

The club has a tradition of always putting on good rallies for a fair price, the first rally being the 'Shitting Bricks Rally' which was a summer rally back in the days when most MCCs didn’t put a rally on.   We then started doing winter rallies calling them 'The Frozen Brick Rally', and these are still going today.  The club stopped putting on a summer rally purely because of the number of rallies already available for bikers to attend, and instead started a Halloween rally called 'Show Us Yer Ghoulies' after the one nighter of the same name.

The club has also changed its logo several times.  The original patch was modelled on one of our existing members, Gilly B (or so we’re told).  In the late 90s the club changed its name to 'Brickies Bike Club' or the BBC for short!  This was because not many of the younger set had listened to Jethro Tull or realised that the club name came from the song of the same name, so we changed the name and got the demolition ball patch made up.  In early 2000 an ex-member, Di Pridgeon, designed a new logo modelled on the original Jethro image drawn by Harley Pete.  Members agreed unanimously that this should become the logo of the club for both patches and clothing and is the design you see us wearing today.

Below is a photo of all the patches from the 80’s till today.....