The thing with Beaulieu, and also Llandow, is that it's southerly!

The guys who consistently participate in events, "The Usual Suspects", are Jeff, Wayne, Tom, Nigel, and Fontyyy (but he's a nutcase and will drive/ride 5 hours/30 mins for an ice cream, and fly 6000 miles for a bottle of rum and some heavy dance music at the slightest prompt!), and usually Stephen. Apart from Tom, Nigel and the nutter, we're all based in the far south/SW, and EVERYTHING else organised is a long way away!

When Jeff organised Beaulieu or his college open weekend, or I organised Llandow, or Steve organised a dyno weekend in Plymouth, we were all glad to have something "local" for a change, and given that we on average (at the times of those events) had about 13~15 NSR's between us, it was never hard to put on a good show without relying on anyone else! Jeff knows just how hard it is to put something together now though, after doing Beaulieu twice, and that was without the £2k outlay I had to pay up front for Llandow a couple of times before getting confirmed place orders.

I've found the way to go to be to drum up some definite "local" support first with people you know you can count on, and then build on that. Jeff was lucky that he could pretty much fill the requirments of the show with bikes for very few people (I offered to lend him mine while I was away if needed to make up numbers), and I worked out how much it would cost a handful of us to privately "rent" LLandow for a day! That was the initial plan... to have the track for a day between about 6 of us just for hooning around! We were each prepared to pay the couple hundred quid, but as word got around, so more people got in on it. It was the same half dozen people mentioned at the start of the post who were the instigators again though!

The only way to get something running is to throw caution to the wind and commit. It's always ended up good, but it never starts out too promising. I would certainly be interested in setting up some kind of display "team" through the site, but I just don't have the time to coordinate it at the moment. It does take a lot of commitment though.

It looks like this year is going to see a bit of a Honda assault on DP F250. I hope many of the UK Forum Members will come together at events this season, which could form a good basis for get togethers next year. With the first Llandow/dyno weekend, it brought a lot of people together who got on really really well, which consequently saw good response to other gatherings (like Jeff's college weekends, Beaulieu, Ace Cafe Blue Haze Day etc.) but it fizzled out in 07, and therefore lost momentum last year.

If someone were to take the reigns (or clipons!) for this year and organise some gatherings, I am sure there could be some good meets again.
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