The site is within the grounds of Headley Park, near Borden, Hants, with lots of flat grassed area for campers, a large stocked pond for fishing, and woods with walks around the pond.
Gadgetgirlie enjoys the view of the pond.
The kids get together for 'footie'
A biker arrives for the Saturday evening entertainment, laden with camping gear.
Another couple arrive at the gate.
The bike show is well attended, with 10 categories for us to vote for on our voting slips.
Love the paint job.
Awesome engineering and radical look.
Another example of a V8 trike, adapted for a family of 4 from Moseley, though unfortunately his gearbox went on the way down to the rally, (like ours did a few weeks ago).
Some other bikes on show...
...or hidden around the back of the stalls
Lots of viewers stand around discussing what they're looking at.....
An original Indian, sounded great...when she eventually roared into life after lots of fiddling and about 12 kickovers....
Detailed paint job.
Live music played in the beer marquee, there was a huge firework display organised by the pyromaniac section of the club, and a brilliant fire to sit around after dark o'clock.
We had intended staying for the weekend but school shoes had to be bought on Saturday morning, so we arrived in time for the bike show during the afternoon. Gadgetman won a £50 tattoo in the raffle, (for which he will have to make a special trip to Kettering for), I bought some new bike gloves, Gadgeteen and Gadgetgirlie had loads of money off us, met some old friends and made some new ones, and Gadgetgirlie lost her brother's football. We met up with Stan & Jane who organise the Isle of Wight rally, and were actually able to sit and chat with them for a while, nice to see them relaxing at someone elses rally and able to just sit!
Fazer and Lala rode down to see what a rally was all about. Fazer had a bit of a shock at the gate when one of the 3 B members, who'd had quite a bit to drink, demanded a ride down to the marquee. Fazer has never had anyone as pillion before, let alone a pissed someone! The trouble was that the route to the marquee was grassy and slippery and muddy, (tee-hee), and the route to parking for day visitors was dry tarmac. Lala then followed Fazer down the slippery slope....assuming that it was the way to the parking area....then they both had to make 'u' turns and come back up again. Good test for their riding skills....I really don't like muddy slopes on a bike....Next year Lala is keen to come and camp for the weekend, Fazer would probably get bored and want to go off for rides during the day...
All in all a great day out.
4 comments:
I am a great fan of the Dragon rally. Often takes place in snow and rain but the camaraderie you get from fellow bikers puts that all to rights. Especially some of those german girls :-P .
I was even lucky enough to go there with my dad once as the chair man in his Jawa outfit.
Great pics thanks. It was like looking through back copoies of AWOL.
meredic - gadgeteen likes girls of any nationality, he seems to come back from every rally with new msn addresses of girlies that he's met...and probably won't see again until next year!
DaveM - Another good mag that went by the wayside....Gman says there were too many Harleys in it anyway, but I liked it.
I'll always remember going to the Lion Rally with you all - great weather and a great bunch of people who even put up with me taking the piss out of them ;-)
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