West London Bike show 2007
By the one and only Rayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! at 21/09/2008 03:00:02 PM
WLHR BIKESHOW 2007
After all the bad weather over the preceding weeks we were hoping that we would be lucky. The weather forecast was good and it turned out great, it was scorching all weekend. We finished setting up the site on Friday morning and people started arriving, including some of our friends from Europe. We provided food, the bar provided drinks and the music was provided by The Hogs. Lots of people danced the night away and everyone had a great time.
More people arrived on the Saturday morning. Grasscutter led the organised ride-out to the oldest pub in Britain, which a lot of people went on. Surrey H-D turned up with their stand, and, a couple of bikes for test rides. Various other stalls were also on site. The music on the Saturday afternoon was provided by My Mate Kate, watch out for this band, they are only young but are going places. The bike show prizes were presented by the Mayoress of Hillingdon and she really enjoyed herself again, this was the third year she had been to the show. The auction and raffles raised £2000 for Headway and we also presented a cheque for £700 raised at our Friday 13th Party. Rough Justice provided the music on Saturday night accompanied by lots of dancing and drinking. The raffle on the Saturday night raised £200 which went to the family of Dick, one of our ex-members who had died of cancer a couple of days earlier.
Sunday morning was spent saying goodbye to everyone who was heading off home, including the HDC Kids, HDC North Sea Group, Moto Club de Lagos from Portugal, HDC Wales, I.O.W and New Forest regions of the HDRCGB, Winchester HRC and people from as far away as Yorkshire and Scotland. We do have to apologize for the toilets not being open on the Saturday morning, this was due to someone from the football club trying to make a point, rest assured it will not happen again. We would like to thank all the stallholders, all the people who provided prizes, all the sponsors, and especially everyone who turned up and made it such a great weekend.
