You can't put a price on a lifetimes memories.
or a RAM mount cup holder won in the raffle
You can't put a price on a lifetimes memories.
I laid on for £60 two nights music, as many doughnuts as you can eat, camping two nights, food as much as you can eat, fruit as much as you can eat. tea and coffee as much as you can drink.
A guide OFF ROAD with 30 years experiance on Salisbury Plain, 8 traders that don`t have to pay for a pitch, TOILETS, a BAR and SHOWERS.
So please others answer Mr TONEDin`s post as I`m now shaking in anger.
P.S as long as I have a hole in my arse I WOULD NEVER HAVE A BURGER VAN !!!!!
Now you have insulted me !
I've read this thread carefully and feel compelled to add my halfpenny's worth. I do not think Tuned In's post is in anyway cowardly. Quite the reverse really judging by the tone of some of the replies. I also don't consider his post to be personally insulting to Bakerman or Chris TFT.I too take offence at Tuned In's comments. The Hograost is a Private Party to raise money for The Gateway Charity, without Bakes and this incredible GS community it just wouldn't exist.
For £60 we provide
1) two evening meals with ample "snack attack" nibbles of fruit and doughnuts with tea or coffee
2) excellent evening entertainment
3) a safe level camp site with ample toilets and showers
4) numerous ride-outs
5) a bar with flexible hours with drinks at "club" as opposed to "pub" prices
6) bingo on Friday and an interesting talk on Sunday
7) the opportunity to purchase various bling and the chance to win lush prizes
Bakes takes at least six months to organise the Hograost and, being the ultimate sensitive and gentle man he is, suffers in silence numerous periods of angst and planning trauma (although needless to say his wonderful family and those close to him also share this burden). Perhaps your comments would have been better introduced via PM or phone call in the first instance, though I suspect they will form part of some cowardly premeditated multi-pronged attack.
I shall continue to provide large financial sponsorship to this event and am honoured to be The Bakerman's Hograost assistant.
Chris TFT (aka Bakes's Slave)
I too take offence at Tuned In's comments.
....though I suspect they will form part of some cowardly premeditated multi-pronged attack.
Looking at the reports after the Hograost, and looking at what was supplied for the £60 it appears to have been good value for money especially given the fact that it was also in aid of a Charity.
Look at Tuned's experience from last year and taken at face value it does indeed appear that he did not have value for money. I don't know what the details were, but try not to take it personally. That was his experience and his reasons for not attending this year. Simply that and I certainly don't read a personal attack into it.
perhaps the attack was made because it was not a UKGSer event
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The word "attack" still puzzles me though. If someone expresses a view that is different from most other people does that constitute an attack?
BTW see you at Achill?
I hope so Tim.
Do you promise you won't attack me or offend me in any way?
You can't put a price on a lifetimes memories.
I've read this thread carefully and feel compelled to add my halfpenny's worth. I do not think Tuned In's post is in anyway cowardly. Quite the reverse really judging by the tone of some of the replies. I also don't consider his post to be personally insulting to Bakerman or Chris TFT.
It's understandable for Bakes and Chris to feel agrieved because of the hard work they obviously put into the organisation of the event.
Fortunately we all have choices and Tuned chose not to attend this event because he believed the cost to be excessive.
He also articulated in his post that it was his opinion. Is the man not entitled to articulate his opinion just as the "opposing camp" are entitled to theirs?
Get over it lads.
Fair 'nuffI agree, he is entitled to an opinion but I don't believe he should have voiced it on this thread.
I had a nice time the beer was cheaper than my local. good company .great weather. can you cook a lamb next year
So,.... I could have taken sixty quid out on a Friday night with the lads down the pub, had a sh*t loads of beer and a curry & wake up on Saturday morning and not much to show for it apart from a bad head and probably dodgy guts.
Alternatively I could spend sixty quid (in fact it was 50 as I booked in advance), have a clean & secure place to park my bike and camp, very good cleaning, showering & shitting facilities, a good bar, a few stalls, a band, free tea & coffee + fruit & doughnuts whenever I wanted, real wholesome food on both nights (And believe me, there was enough to go round) and lets not forget the choice of Saturday ride outs depending on ability + the Friday night green lane session.
For me, it was also the way everything ran smoothly and how everything you needed was there when you wanted it or needed it.
And to top it all off, It's an organised do that raises money for charity.
Now I'm not flush in the wedge department and I can only afford to do a few venues a year.
This was my first Hog Raost and I can tell you now - In my mind, it was well worth turning up for.
So, Sixty quid out on the lash on a Friday night
Or
A top weekend full of bike riding, banter, booze and all round fun.
Well F*ck my old boots! Sixty/fifty quid can get you a whole lot of weekend down Andover way.
I'll do it again, deffo