Annual Rally date - please read this

[steveD]

Wherever the Annual Rally is I am happy to get the marquee there provided that it could be safely stored and brought out for the event. This will mean that I can go to the rally on my bike and enjoy!
It also means that I can plan getting the thing there as I will be pretty broke for the best part of this year. Anyone who has seen it packed up will appreciate that it is quite bulky and as the poles are quite long only an estate or van is suitable to transport it and some of the other gear that I have collected over the years. My Transit is nearly full with the marquee itself and all of the chairs and boxes of cooking gear charcoal etc (pokey sticks for Jethro) so its virtually a weekends trip to get it to the site.
 Please bear this in mind.

SteveD

[002]

It is good for the Garden !     But STINKS some what !
Nearly as bad as Pigs S*%t !

Better than worm wee?

OH Goodness !   That Stuff Really STINKS !   

Made me GAG !  More than my Sh1t Coat !


Jethro

[sjak]

I just received an invitation from the German SRX-scene (mailinglist SRX6.de) for their SRX WEEKEND 2009.
There are about 52 weekends in one year and guess?: 20 - 21 June 2009
http://www.moto-schmutzig.de/1.html 

I've mailed Matthias GroB about this....his answer:
Hoi Sjak,

Yes, our date is fixed, I read it a day after I fixed our weekend - Sorry.
Dave wrote the date for the thumpermeeting is not fix yet - perhaps it will be a other weekend!? Let`s have a look. If the thumperweekend is at another date we have a ride out to GB



kind regards
Sjak

[robG]

Sjak , I don't speak for the club as a whole , however I wouldn't worry . Nothing has yet been decided , as we don't even have a location .

Rob .

[Steve H]

I just received an invitation from the German SRX-scene (mailinglist SRX6.de) for their SRX WEEKEND 2009.
There are about 52 weekends in one year and guess?: 20 - 21 June 2009
http://www.moto-schmutzig.de/1.html 

I've mailed Matthias GroB about this....his answer:
Hoi Sjak,

Yes, our date is fixed, I read it a day after I fixed our weekend - Sorry.
Dave wrote the date for the thumpermeeting is not fix yet - perhaps it will be a other weekend!? Let`s have a look. If the thumperweekend is at another date we have a ride out to GB

Sjak,

As Rob says we dont seem to be able to get out act together on the Rally front. Looking at the pictures on the link you gave I know which meeting I would attend !. 

Steve

[steveD]

Steve H, I couldn't agree more. Sjack is trying his best to get a group together from Europe and we cannot get our act together. I mentioned this in a thread quite a while back now and I'm being proved right. Quite frankly I'm fed up with the whole Annual Rally thing as no-one will put their name down and organise the thing. No-one can come up with somewhere imaginative and interesting, even a date was a challenge.

[Steve H]

Steve H, I couldn't agree more. Sjack is trying his best to get a group together from Europe and we cannot get our act together. I mentioned this in a thread quite a while back now and I'm being proved right. Quite frankly I'm fed up with the whole Annual Rally thing as no-one will put their name down and organise the thing. No-one can come up with somewhere imaginative and interesting, even a date was a challenge.

Steve,

Have you given any thought to another Rally at Dent. The venue is excellent and the scenery spectacular.
I can understand if this isnt an option.

[Bill Rutter]

I've got the time of booked for the original date in June - changing it now maybe a problem for me but, that said, I should be able to work around it if needs be if a definate decision can be made. If we do go down the Dent route I have the time off to get up there early to help out with the marquee etc. I'm sure Colin Hilliard and some others would go up a day or two beforehand as well.
I do feel a bit guilty leaving it to the same blokes though. But it's much appreciated.

[guest146]

I have also booked of work the a day each side of the original date. I can also help with the setting up during those days if you let me know. If the date changes I have to recheck. I have a liking for Dent but so long as the setting is nice I am OK

Ken

[sjak]

For all of you who have booked of work around 20 -21 june maybe the German Meeting is a nice substitute. The location is near Köln so not to far from the Germany border.
Matthias & Bettina provide the food and drinks therselve: Campside beside the mainhouse
- per person included catering (food) € 31,80 from friday - sunday    For the drinks you can buy a drink-card.

Transfer the Annual Rally to Germany, date, location & organisation problems solved

[robG]

Transfer the Annual Rally to Germany, date, location & organisation problems solved

That's not such a bad idea , you know. Yes the cost would rise , however let's not forget that this whole topic started with an enquiry from Sjak in the first place . They were, after all ,coming to us.
Multiple thumpers abroad ,what could possibly go wrong   
Thoughts, chaps { and chaplets } ?

 EuroThumper '09 . Endless possibilities for t-shirts etc..........................

I accept that I for one would lose the chance of a family trip .

Rob .

[sjak]

EuroThumper '09


Great name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bill Rutter]

Calais EuroTunnel Terminal - Cologne is 252 miles. If all else fails this might be a go-er for me....anyone else? Never done a foreign campaign by bike, and Germany is somewhere I haven't been to as well. I could even take the opportunity of seeing a WW1 site I'm keen to visit on the way back.

[Jez F]

Sounds like a reasonable idea, let someone else have all the organising responsibilities while we just turn up and relax.
 Jez

[steveD]

Now doesn't this sound like an idea.
We could use Dent again but quite frankly with the amount of hassle that one has to go through to please everyone and the fact that this year I'm in it for me, as work and mortgage are my priority.
The Crewkerne idea was going to be a problem and I would not have gone in any case.
I am planning to do this one as the TC club eventys seem to be deteriorating fast and nobody will take the lead and do something.

http://www.moto-schmutzig.de/pricelist09

...............and they even have the decency to post in English.

Who else is up for it?