GREAT RALLY DEL

[SAM]

CONGRATULATIOND FOR ORGANISING A VERY SUNNY SOUTHERN RALLY.

[downpipe3]

+1

[nutboltman1]

Yes the same from me mate a great weekend well done with the organising Rich.

[Sneck]

Excellent weekend Delboy I hope you can look back and realise that all that hard work was worth it. You had the B******s to take it on and it paid off

[malc87]

quality DEL
YOURE DE MAN

[Wolfie]

Well done Del, look forward to the next.

Pictures are at http://www.kawasaki.org.uk as ever.

[Wolfie]

There are some gaps cos I have still to retrieve some stills from video, any one using Premiere Pro CS3 out there? I used Premiere for years, but I can't find f*ck all on the CS3 version.

I thought I was upgrading!!

[Wolfie]

Go on then, I'll put some pictures on here since no one else has...

[the180kid]

Great rally Del-B, really enjoyed it mate,..well worth the 6hrs to get there,....no worries.... Brian.

[GinaG]

Thank you everyone

Great turnout
Great show
Great company
Great weather
Great ride out
Great food
Great bands
Well what can I say!! Thanks to Smartie for being well ermm Great!!

Next year will be Dinamite, Huge you'll see, Murph & the magitones? look at you in them candy ass monkey suites & thoght I had a band Juilet

[Posh Pete]

Thank you everyone

Great turnout
Great show
Great company
Great weather
Great ride out
Great food
Great bands
Well what can I say!! Thanks to Smartie for being well ermm Great!!

Next year will be Dinamite, Huge you'll see, Murph & the magitones? look at you in them candy ass monkey suites & thoght I had a band Juilet

My comments on the rally are a bit delayed because I had to travel to Belgium on Sunday for a busy week ahead. However, my points are.......

1. Pub was great, even though the guvner got agitated. He probably had no clue what to expect and certainly didn't bargain for so many vans (as his perception that a bike club rally meant bikes!). Fair play to the man in this respect. I asked him if he was going to grass over the extra bit of land at the bottom of the car park as it would do for camping next year but he said he was concerned about insurance and liability. Needless to say it would be a good idea and solve a problem? I think he was more agitated over his wife's parking space than anything else, and I think she was the one who rared up over space for his locals (her friends) so maybe she was nagging him. I left my car in the lay-by overnight but someone stressed their annoyance by chucking a load of something over the front windscreen. Not sure what it was but discusting it was and it took some effort to wash off.

2. Don't know about Friday but if Saturday was anything to go by then it would have been good. Locals did get the attention at the bar but it is only to be expected. The bar staff were freindly, and so were the locals (as I seem to have found a new female friend to text with).

3. Big thanks to Richard and Stuart who let me sleep in their Caravan down in the 'Lay By' on Saturday evening. Had this invite not come along I was either looking at a night in the car or a sober night in the pub followed by a late drive home (alternatley could a little more effort on Saturday night have scored me a night between the sheets with my new found friend?) :tired.

4. The thought of a night in the lay by in the car lead to visions of the old bill knocking on my window in the early hours so that being the case it would not pay to hold the car keys after a few pints in the pub? Worth thinking about (drunk in charge on a public highway?) Anyway, the night in the caravan spurned an idea to do some palm reading or fortune telling at future rallys, say £5 a time with a kick back for the club? What do you reckon?

5. Organising a rally at the MFN will always be easy compared to anywhere else because that is what the operation is aimed at. Elsewhere we have to take the rough with the smooth, and so we did. The Gate had many many plus points but the beer wasn't great, the facilities still left much to be desired and the pub would struggle to pass a health inspection but 'Hey Ho', it was good for a 'burn out' or two.

6. Del did a great job, the weekend was a success (the weather was a huge bonus) and if the camping and facilities were up to it the venue would be just about perfect (blokes can p*ss anywhere but the ladies need a refuge when taken short in the night). Anyway I saw several new faces at this rally, truly a Southern Rally where you could go much further south if you tried. Maybe we should go to Dungeness next year? :ROFL

SO! WELL DONE DELL, GREAT JOB AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT IF YOU ARE IN CHARGE. :cheers

PS. If you want some help from me next year then please ask. I will certainly oblige (as I am sure most of us would):welcome. Just dont take it all on your own shoulders, get stressed and risk a cardiac. We are all there to have fun......... Nuff Sed!!!!!!!!!

[kas750]

very well written and pretty much sums things up for me also...btw i also found the locals "very friendly" ... .... :smt023

[Posh Pete]

A little bit about Dungeness..........

Having been a seafaring man I have experienced this placed from both sides of the shore. The first was aboard a 55ft sailing boat returning from the East Coast Boat Show at Ipswich heading for Brighton Marina.

When you hit Dungeness on a foul tide then you are in for a long night ( and we certailny were). Being under sail with little wind there is a strong tidal current rounding that point that pushed us back just a little more than the wind was able to push us forward. That was one thing, but if there was ever a monster going to come out of the deep then this was where it was going to happen!

I was quite young at the time and at the wheel alone for some part of the night, and boy was I spooked so trust me the place is bloody spooky!

The next time I went by there was on board HMS Battleaxe running two Olympus gas turbines at about 24 knots. The tide could go to hell but the wrath of Dungeness meant that I was still glad when we got clear of the place. Similar to 'Start Point', it is one of the sharpest points on the South coast of England where the tide is fierce, there's the droan of the power station and the loom of the light from the lighthouse just adds to the effect.

From the shore it is interesting but from the coast it is scary.

[Knight]

Just my bit to add some pics and reflect on a great day.

Left Staines after some last minute checks on the KH250 at about 9.30 ish on a sunny but cool morning and arrived at The Lower Bell a little before the off to The Pilot fish and chip restaurant in Dungeness.

Met up with a few of the guys and picked up my t-shirt[thanks Del] just before we all set off. This was my first ride out with the triples club and longest trip on the KH so was not too sure what to expect knowing what you lot can be like only kidding

Well I needn't have worried as I had a warm welcome by all I met and was even helped out when low on 2 stroke oil about 5 to 10 minutes before we set of for the first fuel stop......thanks Cornish Pete :smt023

To summarise

Great ride out , the best cod and chips I have had for a while,never seen so many triples fired up in one spot[must remember my ear plugs next time ].............FANTASTIC........

I managed to take some photos below but not much time to take more as had to go early.

Anyway must say thanks to Del and all those who helped .I had a great day out ....and was knackered when I did get back :!:

Cheers Paul























Here's me on my KH250 thanks Vincent

[SAM]

Good words & pictures paul Yes i was also drained the Sunday after! Age thing?

[Knight]

Thanks Sam.Yes...............................definitely an AGE THING
:!:

[Spoke]

Cant wait for the next one~well done Del!