Anybody going to the NEC Show?

Oh, excuse me, I appear to have dropped a coin, it's down there
somewhere...

Never mind, it's only a penny.

 

Rope says...

Not any more. Security is very very tight now

 

There's a challenge.

Who reckons they can blag their way in, then?

 

<scrambles on floor>

 

Rope fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

.... and you'd be noticed in Birmingham?

--
Steve Parry
K100RS SE & F650
and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

(not forgetting the SK90PY)

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

I'm not doing that kind of thing ever again.. not since I nearly got
myself arrested partaking of free beer in the club lounge of the airline
my American colleagues were flying with, in Delhi.

Serious chaps, those indians.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ginge

Whaaaat? You bung the right bloke a few pounds / dollars and it all just
goes away.

I spent a happy few hours in the lounge at Mumbai once, listening to the
people who *should* have been in it being turned away because "Very
sorry, lounge full!".

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

That would have worked assuming A) I hadn't used the last of my indian
groats, and B) the bloke in question wasn't on his first day in the job.

In hindsight the execution could have been better.

I survived to tell the tale.. from now on I only blag my way into
European lounges.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ginge

No, no, no! Not Indian money! Pahnds or dorrahs.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

I haven't got rucksack.

 

Ahhh.

I shall rememeber for next time. (there may never be a next time)

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Black Mike

Here, borrow mine.


<fx: runs away very fast>

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

I went to this the year before last and TBH was quite disappointed.

The bikes were a bit dull; only the Guzzi concept Griso thing, Triumph
Rocket had any excitement or queues to look at; the trade stuff seemed
expensive tat; main stage events boring and I felt sorry for the girls as
hordes of middle aged men leched at them. The Lampkin's motocross
display was good.

However, getting pissed in the bar with Cane, Blaney (and respective
Fathers), Hog, Spete, Wik and Suze was most enjoyable. It'd have been
just as much fun in a boozer in Birmingham without all the bike crap.

 

<goes and walks round the local bike shop for the same experience>

 

wessie says...

Now it would be good value except for one thing. Rather than lots of
stands selling really nice stuff at a genuine discount price there are
lots and lots of stands selling exactly the same shite helmets,
disklocks, shite leathers, security chains, shite tankpads etc etc and
all at something close to normal prices. IMHO the only reason to
attend is if you want to see the new bikes and the girls.

The really nice stuff, like the Harris stand, is all pretty much book
price.

I can think of four purchases made over the years at NEC. Bear's Uvex
helmet, his Scorpion R1 can, my old Arai RX7 and my current Dainese
leather jacket. Each of mine had a decent discount, none of those
discounts were large enough to offset the cost of attendance.

If there are a few people going on some particular day I might attend
with the aforementioned Irene. Being new to bikes and to the show she
will be appropriately dazzled, I can offset the crushing boredom by
imagining her overwhelming gratitude.

'Hog

 

Not at those prices, no

 

dwb wrote

AOL[1]




[1] I wasn't actually planning to go as it happens, mainly because I
don't buy new bikes and looking a wimmin I can't have hurts but
nonetheless it still seems a tad dear.

 

1) Undo zip
2) Tuck self in properly
3) Do zip up

It shouldn't hurt to look, now

 

MikeH wrote

I am going out shopping later on, I'll give it a try.

What do you reckon, about three when the parade of young so fucking fit
it is untrue mums going to pick their litluns up from school goes past?

 

Presumably you walk around with a bag on your head then?