View Full Version : NEC Bike Show 04, Anyone going?
RebuiltYorkie
09-10-2004, 11:22 PM
Hi I am going to be on The DMA stand, (Disabled Motorcyclist Association) I am a member of both the NABD and DMA. I will be at the show every day, so if you go pop on an say hi.
Robin
10-10-2004, 12:26 PM
I'll be there on the MAG stand on the last Saturday and Sunday, hopefully I'll get a couple of hours off to run around, say hello to peeps, and sit on the new bikes making 'Brum,Brum' noises.
RebuiltYorkie
10-10-2004, 02:13 PM
I can't wait the best time o' the year for me? I get a full week a way to mi self, no missus naggin, on 14 yr old needing taxi every where and to top it all all those great custom bikes an' trikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes! I'll be havin' fun! :)
Ho! Bye the way I don't need a wheelchair now! So I can get around an' see more with out getting blocked by everyone gapping at the "Birds on bikes" Last year it took me nearly an hour to get from one side of hall six to the other! I didn't look at any of em! (Well, thats what I told the Missus) lol
See you there!!!!!!!
Robin
10-10-2004, 07:39 PM
Oh Lordy, do they have scantily clad girlies there then, I never noticed (honest) ;)
I might have to take my special perving sunglasses with me. :D
Bosun
10-10-2004, 08:03 PM
hoping to go midweek
but also been promised training at work..
once one date confirmed can sort other
haven't been for 4 years
RebuiltYorkie
10-10-2004, 09:43 PM
Oh Lordy, do they have scantily clad girlies there then, I never noticed (honest) ;)
I might have to take my special perving sunglasses with me. :D
Yeah, It was a suprise for me an' all! :D I just got mi self a new pair! For the low winter sun of corse! :cool:
I did last year after about a five year gap!
See you all there, take care an' ride safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TaxiDave
11-10-2004, 06:55 AM
Definitely going but not at the weekend when there's too many kids getting in the way, and their parents get so annoyed when you kick their offspring.
Last year I actually saw two blokes getting out of a Mondeo on the car park and putting bike jackets on and then getting helmets out of the boot to carry round with them. Proper bikers. :rolleyes:
I will be going this year. Haven't been in a long time due to an overbearing, dictatorship called marriage :mad: But like i say, i'm going this year 'cos i saw sense and got a D I V O R C E :D (a bit extreme i know but worth it)
krammer
11-10-2004, 03:27 PM
Definitely going but not at the weekend when there's too many kids getting in the way, and their parents get so annoyed when you kick their offspring.
Last year I actually saw two blokes getting out of a Mondeo on the car park and putting bike jackets on and then getting helmets out of the boot to carry round with them. Proper bikers. :rolleyes: you saw me then? oh bollocks :D going on train this year complete with helmets and back patches. :rolleyes: but seriously folks (and i mean this most sincerely) i will be going and would love to meet up with some of you guys.
you saw me then? oh bollocks :D going on train this year complete with helmets and back patches. :rolleyes: but seriously folks (and i mean this most sincerely) i will be going and would love to meet up with some of you guys.
i am up for a trip there (not the first week though)
so if anyone wants to arrange something i am easy
Yoda
100%Pat
11-10-2004, 03:52 PM
is always easy no matter what....
krammer
11-10-2004, 04:01 PM
i am up for a trip there (not the first week though)
so if anyone wants to arrange something i am easy
Yoda ...i bet you are :D yeah second week is fine with me mate. i don't need to give much notice at work for a days holiday so will be in touch to sort out a day.
Santa
12-10-2004, 01:39 PM
Will be going at some point, but haven't got my work rota for November yet so don't know what days I'll be free to go.
Friar Tuck
12-10-2004, 07:03 PM
Sorry folks, not this year. I don't think the world is ready yet to see the jumper three times in one year!
To be quite honest I was disappointed in it last year. Whilst the Custom Extreme show had some really great bikes, there was little in the way of custom shops showing. Those that were, were basically flogging Custom Chrome and Highway Hawk catalogues.
I'm afraid I sneaked off and wandered into the Music Show that was on, and had a wail of a time listening to all manner of peeps playing various instruments!
Maybe next year!
BikerGran
12-10-2004, 08:16 PM
Dunno if I'll be going cos I may be otherwise occupied - on the other hand, I just borrowed a fantasic wheelchair from a friend for when I come out of hospital - only thing missing is the Ducati badge - I've wheelied it already!
But as you say, need a clear run for that. Haven't been to the show for a couple of years cos I used to go every year and it got a bit same old, same old.......
But it would be fun to meet some folks from the forum.
RebuiltYorkie
12-10-2004, 09:50 PM
Dunno if I'll be going cos I may be otherwise occupied - on the other hand, I just borrowed a fantasic wheelchair from a friend for when I come out of hospital - only thing missing is the Ducati badge - I've wheelied it already!
But as you say, need a clear run for that. Haven't been to the show for a couple of years cos I used to go every year and it got a bit same old, same old.......
But it would be fun to meet some folks from the forum.
Yeah Trikergran I found a lot the same, but I just love the crack of the show's an' meeting all the folk; I usually manage to get a couple o' bargains (well thats what I call em when the wife is near bye)lol It will be different this year for me, coss I won't have a wheel chair with me! It maybe, be a bit more tyering but I'll just have to waite an' see. DMA say they'll, get another member to stand in for me if I get too tired! Well with all those bikes an' bikers around I aint never going to get tired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Miss Demeanour
12-10-2004, 10:40 PM
I shall pass this year, I'm afraid.
Went a couple of years ago, and got fed up with:-
1) being ignored by stallholders (no, I have a licence, honest... no really... yes - passed test - about 12 years ago.... I also earn more than my boyfriend, err actually, right now, we're shopping for me... My credit card... can you talk to me please?... Sorry.... hello? I'm down here... Dum de dum... )
2) Not being able to get near the bikes owing to wannabes (I really would like to know what's going to appear at some stage on the second-hand market, and whether I can reach the ground on it...)
3) being batted out of the way by teenage wannabes to have a leer at and a photo taken some whippet in lycra who knows nothing about a product they're trying to promote. Poor ol' souls look like they need a good feed. perhaps then they'd cheer up a bit.
not being a killjoy, if you like it, then go, have a smashing time, and collect loads of freebies... But most traders don't seem to be interested in my expendable income, let alone in hiring someone to get *my* attention.
Give it a couple of years and I might go again, and will take the day off to go during the week. but last time, I was distinctly underwhelmed.
hmmm sounds interesting, been to the scottish one twice but not this one, when is it? I was sure the scottish one was only on for a weekend. Anyway
when
where
how much
we need new leathers for pinrut so do you think it would be worth going just for that? There's nowt much round ours (oh how I miss Westgate road)
:cool:
6th -14th November, £13, Birmingham NEC. They have a web site too, www.motorcycleshow.co.uk.
6th -14th November, £13, Birmingham NEC. They have a web site too, www.motorcycleshow.co.uk.
hey all turn up in wheelchairs...its a lot cheaper :) :)
Yoda
it has a lot of sports bikes,(which aint my scene)
but there is a growing custom section there and a large variety of stalls.
it is very much samey samey year in and out but the custom section is supposed to be getting bigger...i say every year i aint going again,,but i always do..i should have been a girly..i like shopping
Yoda
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