View Full Version : Rally Patches and Badges
Bosun
03-11-2006, 03:58 PM
Its one of those thoughts i had again, whiile traversing the M25
where did the tradition of rally patches and badges start from?
does it go back to the pilgrim style of souvenirs from the holyland sort of idea?
anyone know?
Good question Fayji. :)
I have no idea what the answer is though. :o
Puppydawg
03-11-2006, 05:13 PM
probably someone decided if you get the patch on a few people others would ask about it and hopefuly turn up with them next time around, let's face it once it's on someones cut off there a walking advert for you !
Kylie
03-11-2006, 05:44 PM
Perhaps they nicked the idea from the girl guides? We've been putting badges on our camp blankets for decades!
bunbag
03-11-2006, 07:03 PM
camp blankets :confused: well u go girl :D
hermann
03-11-2006, 07:13 PM
Perhaps they nicked the idea from the girl guides? We've been putting badges on our camp blankets for decades!
Your a girlguide. This thread is now officially useless without pictures ;)
Puppydawg
03-11-2006, 07:30 PM
Your a girlguide. This thread is now officially useless without pictures ;)
Yes and in uniform please ;)
Kylie
03-11-2006, 07:36 PM
You'll have to wait til i've had a chance to scan an old picture.... the last one of me in uniform was probably when I was about 12.... and skinny!
I am not a guide any more, but I was a guide leader until a few years back when I ran out of time and patience!
hermann
03-11-2006, 07:37 PM
Far too young... ;)
scouselee
03-11-2006, 09:00 PM
but will the uniform still fit :rolleyes:
Kylie
03-11-2006, 09:17 PM
but will the uniform still fit :rolleyes:
You've got to be joking!!!!! I've grown upwards by about 3 or 4 inches and outwards by more than I care to imagine!!!!
scouselee
03-11-2006, 09:19 PM
ah well, just have to use imagination then ;)
Kylie
03-11-2006, 09:24 PM
ah well, just have to use imagination then ;)
I hope its a large imagination!
scouselee
03-11-2006, 09:52 PM
I have as much imagination as I am ever likely to need, its needed over here not a lot to do but imagine :)
Urban Terrorist
03-11-2006, 10:28 PM
No idea, but do know that people started putting them on cut-offs, so's not to weaken their leather jackets by sewing direct to them ;) :D
Tattoo addict
05-11-2006, 07:44 PM
Im gonna be having some fun with a guy in the local mcc club, hes bought every rally badge available on ebay as far as i know hes not done any rallys :mad: I ve done some of the rallys he has badges for so me an the other half are gonna collar him for a nice little quiz on location etc :D
scouselee
05-11-2006, 07:47 PM
Im gonna be having some fun with a guy in the local mcc club, hes bought every rally badge available on ebay as far as i know hes not done any rallys :mad: I ve done some of the rallys he has badges for so me an the other half are gonna collar him for a nice little quiz on location etc :D
try and be as nice as you possibly can :rolleyes:
try and be as nice as you possibly can :rolleyes:
and record it too :)
Tattoo addict
05-11-2006, 08:32 PM
and record it too :)
Now theres an idea :D
John Hopkins
05-11-2006, 09:10 PM
Its one of those thoughts i had again, whiile traversing the M25
where did the tradition of rally patches and badges start from?
does it go back to the pilgrim style of souvenirs from the holyland sort of idea?
anyone know?
First patches I ever saw were the 69 club in the 60s I seem to remember they used to meet at St Martin in the fields church..Then the Mods wore them on a long sort of anorak that they wore to keep their clothes clean! I think the very first ones started in America while we were too busy fighting Hitler to do much riding!..Of course with the alzeimers kicking in I can remember things that happened 20 years before I was born! :D John
John Hopkins
05-11-2006, 09:13 PM
but will the uniform still fit :rolleyes:
Who cares!! put it on anyway..and post a photo!!
Posted by Cosmo Smallpiece! :D John
hermann
06-11-2006, 09:10 AM
First patches I ever saw were the 69 club in the 60s I seem to remember they used to meet at St Martin in the fields church..Then the Mods wore them on a long sort of anorak that they wore to keep their clothes clean! I think the very first ones started in America while we were too busy fighting Hitler to do much riding!..Of course with the alzeimers kicking in I can remember things that happened 20 years before I was born! :D John
Do you mean the 59 club 59 club (http://www.the59club.org.uk/) . The 69 club sounds like an entirely different thing ;)
BigBod
06-11-2006, 09:41 AM
Don't know about rally badges but didn't patches and stuff come about as a result of lots of ex military forming clubs? particularly in the US. Ranks and trades in the military are displayed by badges. This carried over into the biking world way back when.
I guess it was a natural extension of club and marque badges - I've still got my Dad's Triangle MCC (I think) badges from the '60s when he was scrambling.
John Hopkins
06-11-2006, 03:35 PM
Do you mean the 59 club 59 club (http://www.the59club.org.uk/) . The 69 club sounds like an entirely different thing ;)
Sorry yes!!!don't know where my mind was!! It was in 1960 so it couldn't have been the 69 club...That couldn't hjave come out until 1969...PMSL..typo... :D John
Tattoo addict
07-11-2006, 09:19 AM
I guess it was a natural extension of club and marque badges - I've still got my Dad's Triangle MCC (I think) badges from the '60s when he was scrambling.
The Triangle mcc are still going strong :)
muskrat
12-11-2006, 05:45 PM
Personally I don,t bother buying patches I think there just for people to say look at me and all the rallies I,ve bin to ! I don,t give a sh*t how many rallies people think I,ve bin to or not, I know and thats all that counts, I,d rather spend my money on more alcohol !
Urban Terrorist
12-11-2006, 06:07 PM
I wear on my cut off, my dads vincent patch, his triumph patch and his 1974 and 1967 dragon rally badges.
Sludge Van Diesel
12-11-2006, 06:47 PM
I must admit I've been thinking about removing the rally patches that haven't already fallen off my cut off. I think this thread has just sealed their fate.
Lone-Wolf
12-11-2006, 06:56 PM
I must admit I've been thinking about removing the rally patches that haven't already fallen off my cut off.
Wotcha.
That's the problem - they can, and do, fall off.
Now, thanks to modern technology, I bring you the
VIRTUAL CUTOFF (http://www.moonshiners.org.uk/rally_badges.htm)
Besides, even a fat bastard like myself only has so much room for badges / patches :D
Tattoo addict
12-11-2006, 10:43 PM
Wotcha.
That's the problem - they can, and do, fall off.
Now, thanks to modern technology, I bring you the
VIRTUAL CUTOFF (http://www.moonshiners.org.uk/rally_badges.htm)
Besides, even a fat bastard like myself only has so much room for badges / patches :D
Youre just showing off now! :D
Lone-Wolf
12-11-2006, 11:44 PM
Youre just showing off now! :D
Wotcha.
Who ?
Me ?
Never :D
and that ain't all of 'em.
A lifetime ( which ain't over yet ) of rallying and all I've got to show for it is a few badges / patches / trophies. . . . . . and no regrets :p
Must admit though, I'm finding rallies a bit of a "much of a much-ness" these days. I should have been on one this weekend and never bothered - same with the one the club is doing in a couple of weeks time.
Is it me - or are rallies all starting to take the same format ?
deegee
13-11-2006, 06:09 AM
Badges, we don't need no stinkeen' badges. :D :D :D
Creature
13-11-2006, 07:10 AM
That's the problem - they can, and do, fall off. not on mine they dont - if they did it would disintigrate - its all that holds it together :):)
Urban Terrorist
13-11-2006, 07:42 AM
Wotcha.
That's the problem - they can, and do, fall off.
Now, thanks to modern technology, I bring you the
VIRTUAL CUTOFF (http://www.moonshiners.org.uk/rally_badges.htm)
Besides, even a fat bastard like myself only has so much room for badges / patches :D
BMF 1978?!!! That was the year i was born :eek: :D :D
Must admit though, I'm finding rallies a bit of a "much of a much-ness" these days. I should have been on one this weekend and never bothered - same with the one the club is doing in a couple of weeks time.
Is it me - or are rallies all starting to take the same format ?
Before i got involved in the club scene to the degree i am, used to do the odd rally, but most people tittsed me off, and it used to regularly go all wrong as a result.
The best weekends by far, were half a dozen of us up in the Yorkshire Dales, pub, fire, cans, an a few tatties to bake, brilliant.
That was in the days before drinking till 6am as well, so we even got a sunday out of it. :eek:
One o me first, reckon i was 18, British Motorcycle Preservation Society;
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6033/888888888888yf0.th.jpg (http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=888888888888yf0.jpg)
BigBod
13-11-2006, 09:10 AM
I've always collected rally badges from rallies I've been to, keep em all on cork boards. Used to keep all the t shirts as well. Don't bother now! Found the 10th Kent t shirt the other day and some early Bulldog bash ones. Don't quite fit anymore :rolleyes:
Only wear one badge on my waistcoat, designed by a mate of mine. A biker friendship badge he designed and had made to give away to all his mates around Europe. He died of heart attack at a rally in Holland while the pin badges were still being made. Means a lot to me that one. His Mrs still does the European rallies and gives his badges away.
Tattoo addict
13-11-2006, 04:16 PM
Wotcha.
Who ?
Me ?
Never :D
and that ain't all of 'em.
A lifetime ( which ain't over yet ) of rallying and all I've got to show for it is a few badges / patches / trophies. . . . . . and no regrets :p
Must admit though, I'm finding rallies a bit of a "much of a much-ness" these days. I should have been on one this weekend and never bothered - same with the one the club is doing in a couple of weeks time.
Is it me - or are rallies all starting to take the same format ?
I think you are right the rallys are tending to be a bit same old same old now. Tryed some different ones this year so made a nice change. :)
Cookie
19-11-2006, 07:08 PM
May be nothing to do with it, but there was a guy in the Wathamstow group in the late 60s early '70s who used to wear a jacket with the old pearly thing going on it - they nicknamed him buttons. Maybe it came from that in some way
Womble_Lancs
19-11-2006, 07:27 PM
Personally I don,t bother buying patches I think there just for people to say look at me and all the rallies I,ve bin to ! I don,t give a sh*t how many rallies people think I,ve bin to or not, I know and thats all that counts, I,d rather spend my money on more alcohol !
I collect my rally badges, but I stopped wearing them about 16 years ago, cos I lost some at the Pointed Nipple rally. My penpal in LA sent me a nice piece of tanned elk hide, so I've got them all pinned to that now :cool:
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