NEC Show

For those of you who have been already is it worth going to see this
year?

I'm in two minds as to whether to go tomorrow or not.

 

well if my tix turn up tomorrow, and you fancy going Sunday, you'll have
the added activity of trying to avoid me...

 

Paul Corfield said....

I'll be there working with graham from GLF Accessories, and so will
BigJ, so I'd say no. Unless you want to spend even more money with us.

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I enjoyed the show, reckoned there was a fair bit of new stuff to see, more
so than last year.

 

I went on Weds for a few hours.

The show seemed smaller, there was less to look at and there didn't seem
to be anything that well priced.

I went up thinking I might buy an Autocom, some new boots and a pair of
half-decent cordura trousers.

The Autocom crowd wanted 144- for the basic unit and wouldn't throw in
the curly cord from the helmet to the unit. This probably costs them
one or two pounds if they buy it in (a guess based on my experience of
priced of 'stuff' from the far east).

There were lots of cheap cordura trousers and plenty of decent ones.
There didn't seem to be any reasonably priced decent ones though. Saw
some Shoei ones I liked but they were 100- which was more than they were
worth to me.

Saw some nice Sidi Courier boots. They were 139- but didn't have my
size. They will let me buy my size within two weeks for the same price,
delivered. I may take them up on that.

I walked away with a stick on sunstrip thing for my helmet and a can of
"purple helmet polish"

Either I'm getting old and have everything I need, or I'm getting
tighter or the show isn't that good this year. Take your pick.

I'm in two minds whether it was worth going at all. 16 quid is fucking
expensive for entry IMO.

The thought provoking things were:

1. The "King Shave" stand. What was that all about? Did you have a
shave so you could stare at some birds tits while she shaved you?

2. Some fucking wanker wandering around with a four year old girl. The
girl was wearing a T-Shirt stating "Too much princess for any single
boy". What the **** was her father thinking, she's only four for
heaven's sake.

I'm getting old.

 

That's 'cos it is

See above

That's the NEC Bike Show for ya

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No

HTH

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Aye, a right grouchy old fucker. You didn't mention a single bike!

I acquired a Dainese G.Free leather jacket for about £50+ less than local.
Hey it's OK now Bear has departed?
The only off-the-peg I've found to fit in 10 years. Nice and black with no
gay bits. Well chuffed.

Then again I couldn't get anyone to beat Crossans on a new RX7 Corsair.

 

I enjoyed the show, reckoned there was a fair bit of new stuff to see, more
so than last year.
[/QUOTE]
The report I got back from one of the guys at the SP was that it was
disappointing.

<shrug>

Depends what you are going for specifically, I suppose.

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Un-cork me to reply

 

G**gle groups has Bear's last post to ukrm as 7th Oct.
Where's he gone?

 

tallbloke was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

AFAIK he launched a rattle or three into orbit and vowed never to
return.

 

it'd mean leaving the house, after all...

 

Oh, I'm well out of touch, haven't been around for a while.
I always said he liked dishing it out but couldn't take it back...

<goes a g**gling >

 

He still using the same posting name?

 

Ah Yes, sat down with egg and beeans.

Cheerslove

 

tallbloke was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

That's basically what darsy said as well. It was 'im whose comments
caused the Bear Launch.

 

In this week's MCN there was a double-page spread about the bargains to
be had. There were some very good deals, but mostly of the
once-every-ten years-I'll-buy this-thing, rather than the once-a-year
type.

 

wrote in 4ax.com:

I bought some Wulfsport ones from Lucas in Ross on Wye, 75 quid. Zip out
liner. They are very good.
http://www.wulfsport.com/
http://wulfsport.info/products_roadsuits.html has the actual garment

 

Heh, yeah. Just read the 'Making a will' threads relevant sections.

Ah well, he who lives by the flame ends up getting burnt.....

 

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 08:43:39 +0000, Andy Bonwick

Yeah, thanks a bunch for pointing that out, Andy.