Thank you to all who turned up and helped out, it would have been impossible without your efforts. Further to that it would have been a lot less fun without you guys. Great company.
Thanks also to all who visited the stand.
Biggest thanks of all to Gareth for putting so much time and money into the stand. It was decided that no club funds would be diverted for the show and so we bore the cost ourselves, with Gareth providing the majority of the wonga. It's not all wasted though, the Sideburn magazine crowd have asked us (the only club they asked) to attend their Rollerburn event in November, as long as we bring Evel Knievel
So, at least some of the stand will go on to have another life.
We also displayed a large poster saying how much we are all going to miss Bruce and the club hand-out cards had Bruce's picture and name on them too so each time we handed one out we told the recipient all about our much-missed fellow member. I also bumped into the chap who had transported Bruce on his final ride on the sidecar of another Big4. That outfit was at the show too.
Looking at these photos it is still hard to see how we didn't receive a club stand award when the second-placed club merely put down carpet, parked some bikes in a line
and unfurled pop-up banners
I thought the quality of the bikes at the show had improved and each year it seems like the standards (especially for specials) are higher. How a very ordinary Kawasaki triple stood out enough to be judged 'Best in Show' is a bit of a mystery to me and an awful lot of fellow show attendees, but its location on the VJMC stand was hinted at as being a factor. This year it seemed that the high quality of very many as-original restorations would make it hard to pick one as being 'better' than another... but what do I know?
Anyway, back to real life now and off to work
Toodlepip
GC
p.s. Yes, that is RobG's old CB250RS in the photos, good enough to be a winner in its own right I'd say.
