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GREAT RALLY DEL
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:47 am
by SAM
CONGRATULATIOND FOR ORGANISING A VERY SUNNY SOUTHERN RALLY.

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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:44 pm
by downpipe3
+1

Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:21 pm
by nutboltman1
Yes the same from me mate a great weekend well done with the organising

Rich.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:35 pm
by 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
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:14 pm
by malc87
quality DEL
YOURE DE MAN
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:12 am
by Wolfie
Well done Del, look forward to the next.
Pictures are at http://www.kawasaki.org.uk as ever.
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:14 am
by 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!!
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:14 pm
by the180kid
Great rally Del-B, really enjoyed it mate,..well worth the 6hrs to get there,....no worries....

Brian.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:55 pm
by 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

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:35 pm
by Posh Pete
delboy wrote: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!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:25 pm
by kas750
very well written and pretty much sums things up for me also...btw i also found the locals "very friendly"

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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:54 pm
by 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.

Nice one
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:54 am
by SAM
Good words & pictures paul 
Yes i was also drained the Sunday after! Age thing?
Old Age
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:41 am
by Knight
Thanks Sam.Yes...............................definitely an AGE THING
:!:
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:22 am
by Spoke
Cant wait for the next one~well done Del!
