The Ayrshire Touring Motor Cycling Club was officially formed at the first club AGM on 21st March 1990, held in the Townhead Community Centre, Dreghorn where we still meet twice a month.

The first Newsletter was issued on May 1st, 1990 and was written and edited by (for much of the time also Chairperson) Campbell Barrie who faithfully documented the club activities every month until January 1997. Our current Chairman, Bob Ross, has
continued producing this record ever since.

Membership has grown steadily from 30 in 1990 to 81 in 2003, representing a healthy mixture of stalwarts and new members.
The Club however has a pre-history, which dates from the late 70sh. A small group of motorcyclists, many of whom were Star Rider Instructors, would met at diverse locations in Ayrshire of a summer's evening. A regular meeting place was the Garden Centre at Doonfoot during 1978/79. From there a more formal arrangement developed at the Prestwick Community Centre during 1981/82 organised by Neville Stone, Chief Star Rider Instructor for the area, and a former sand-bike-racer. In 1983, Tog's Cafe in Troon became the haunt, and again under Neville's guidance, a constitution was drafted for a Motor Cycling Club.
The inaugural meeting of the Ayrshire Star Rider Motor Cycling Club took place on the 17th May 1984, at Tog's Cafe. The following Office Bearers were elected from the 26 members of the new club –

Chair Ian Bell; Secretary Carol Fowley; Committee Gordon Fowley, Geoff Robson and Neville Stone.
Auditors were Elsie Harris and Richard Todd.

Meetings were held every second Thursday in the Cafe, a new chairperson was elected every year, and from 1984 to 1990 the "Star Rider Club" as it was popularly known as, organised regular runs, talks, and social events.

The constitutional aims of the club at that time included encouraging safe motorcycling, by setting a good example and providing opportunities for trainees to get involved with responsible bikers!

The membership remained substantially the same size during the rest of the 1980s, but as motorcycle instruction became more
commercialised and less a voluntary activity, several Star Rider Instructors moved away, or stopped training.

For a variety of reasons, the club meeting place moved to the Community Centre in Dreghorn in 1989.
This move, the decline in members' training involvement, and increased availability of modern long-range sports touring bikes, were undoubtedly reasons why the club membership decided that the name and constitution of the Star Rider Club no longer accurately represented the majority of the member. Hence the Ayrshire Touring Motor Cycling Club was born in 1990.
The first committee consisted of Chair Ross Kerr, Secretary/Treasurer Valerie Barrie, Campbell Barrie, John Cain, Alan Frew, and Richard Todd.