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Classic Bike show 2015
For
a change the weather promised to be better for this years' show and I
was up early to get the Valiant to the show by about 8am. The run to
the show was quiet and I made good progress to get there in time. It
didn't take long to get the bikes in position with Mr Plod giving
Georges' bike a good talking to.
The
LMM had its stand just across from us and Pete and Brian did sterling
work in promoting the Museum. So much so that they had run out of
fliers and Pete took nearly all I had to finish off the afternoon. After the usual walk
around the stands to buy oil for the LE and Valiant some new Halcyon
goggles and a book. The book was being sold from the stand next to
the door by a charming young lady, Zoe Cano. Zoe had done a road trip
around America on a Bonneville some 7500km on her own. The book is
called “Go or Bust” ISBN 978-1-890623-43-2 from Road Dog
Publications. Zoe 's blog is www.bonnevilleadventure.blogspot.com.
I have yet to read the book along with lots of other stuff so once
read I'll report back. Now back to the show with great stands from
everyone participating and as usual there are things that pop up of
interest, The first of
these was the Imme, a German moped that ha single sided from and rear
with a very neat and polished egg shaped engine and on the same stand
was the show prize winner a Horex single.
Just
down the way were the British two stroke club that had a TWN on
display that had a very unconventional engine being twin cylinder
with a single combustion chamber with twin carbs and twin exhausts.
Looks like a twin but is really a split single
On
the Dot stand was another bit of kit that caught my eye, once again a
twin and quite unique have an RCA engine fitted. It is a bit more
conventional but has the exhaust that exit on the side and the pipes
go backwards. Very few of these were made and were always special.
It
was a good day although this time around no-one received any prizes.
With the stand dismantled and packed in the car and on the way the
trip home for us the bikes was uneventful other than George needing a
push start to get going and fighting our way through Saturday
afternoon traffic with miles of filtering to get home. Now that is
fun on an old bike!
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