have any of you been before?
We have and had seen the lot and was heading home within an hour of getting in, it really was a waste of time
I know, children do get bored easily.
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I know, children do get bored easily.
So you only went into one of the three halls then?
NorthernBoy
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It's a bit bigger this year, but still far from huge. The last few years I thought it ended up not really worth the cost, but this year it was decent enough. There are already a few bargains to be had; I got a Schuberth C3 for £320, which is pretty good.
Mind, it's five minutes on the bike for me, I'm not sure that its worth travelling hours to.
Mind, it's five minutes on the bike for me, I'm not sure that its worth travelling hours to.
what do you think?
Trip Report 3/2/10
Well, I popped in for a couple of hours yesterday. Fairly quiet, with plenty of room to move about and have a look at the new bikes without having to queue up for a 'quick sit on'.
BMW had a couple of S1000RR's, one in a nice white scheme, and the other in the sort of vile green reserved for old people's ford fiestas. You could sit on the green one, but it wasn't going to make a good picture so:-
Twat Suit V3.0 was on the stand, and I spent a while having a go with all the zips. The Jacket deems to be well thought out, but the trousers have zips on the liner cuffs as well as the outer ones, and a superfluous velcro tab to add another 30 seconds to the time it takes to get ready. The suede pads have a fairly garish BMW tooling thing on them that I think they could have left off.
There's no phone bag this time round, the lower front pockets (you know, the ones where stuff tends to fall out) are lined in goretex, and have a roll down velcro flap. The others are just as before, including the high up 'phone shaped' ones.
It's going to be at the dealers from Saturday, I'll have another midweek jaunt to go try it out/get fitted next month. The darker colour is certainly better than the traditional grey.
Judge was doing a roaring trade in ear-plugs, but I managed to catch up with him in a lull a bit later on.
One thing that definitely had improved over the last couple of visits was the quality of the promo girls working on the various stands. All very personable and none of the failed x-factor contestants that you used to get. Good job I took a proper camera along then:-
Twins
In training for next year:-
Was it worth £18 and an afternoon out? Yeah, just about. I only bought one thing, an xxs exped dry bag from Les @ Travel-Dri.
If you are going later, have fun... Ian
Well, I popped in for a couple of hours yesterday. Fairly quiet, with plenty of room to move about and have a look at the new bikes without having to queue up for a 'quick sit on'.
BMW had a couple of S1000RR's, one in a nice white scheme, and the other in the sort of vile green reserved for old people's ford fiestas. You could sit on the green one, but it wasn't going to make a good picture so:-
Twat Suit V3.0 was on the stand, and I spent a while having a go with all the zips. The Jacket deems to be well thought out, but the trousers have zips on the liner cuffs as well as the outer ones, and a superfluous velcro tab to add another 30 seconds to the time it takes to get ready. The suede pads have a fairly garish BMW tooling thing on them that I think they could have left off.
There's no phone bag this time round, the lower front pockets (you know, the ones where stuff tends to fall out) are lined in goretex, and have a roll down velcro flap. The others are just as before, including the high up 'phone shaped' ones.
It's going to be at the dealers from Saturday, I'll have another midweek jaunt to go try it out/get fitted next month. The darker colour is certainly better than the traditional grey.
Judge was doing a roaring trade in ear-plugs, but I managed to catch up with him in a lull a bit later on.
One thing that definitely had improved over the last couple of visits was the quality of the promo girls working on the various stands. All very personable and none of the failed x-factor contestants that you used to get. Good job I took a proper camera along then:-
Twins
In training for next year:-
Was it worth £18 and an afternoon out? Yeah, just about. I only bought one thing, an xxs exped dry bag from Les @ Travel-Dri.
If you are going later, have fun... Ian
Excel
We went last year waste of time, not many dealers certainly no bargins the TT stand was deserted and they reckon a complete waste of time. So if you aint got a free ticket don't bother.
have any of you been before?
We have and had seen the lot and was heading home within an hour of getting in, it really was a waste of time
We went last year waste of time, not many dealers certainly no bargins the TT stand was deserted and they reckon a complete waste of time. So if you aint got a free ticket don't bother.
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It was brillant as I had a few pints before going. So it was nice that the show wasn't that big.
Best memory was sitting on a Ducati and pretending to do a knee down as Andy Ibbot of Califonia Superbike school walks pass and laughed
The best way to do the London show is to be slighty tipsy
The £1700 suit was nice but way out of my league financially at the moment. Tempted but didn't get their gore tex glove.
Show girls were lovely especially MCE insurance who had THE BEST OUTFITS! I am going to insure my bike with them this year just to help them stay in business so they can be at other shows
Best memory was sitting on a Ducati and pretending to do a knee down as Andy Ibbot of Califonia Superbike school walks pass and laughed
The best way to do the London show is to be slighty tipsy
The £1700 suit was nice but way out of my league financially at the moment. Tempted but didn't get their gore tex glove.
Show girls were lovely especially MCE insurance who had THE BEST OUTFITS! I am going to insure my bike with them this year just to help them stay in business so they can be at other shows
I enjoyed it as well - a big improvement on previous years. Very tempted by the £1,700 suit as well - looks and feels like a very high quality product (as it should be). Nice blokes on the stand as well.
I enjoyed it too (even without a couple of beers! 
).
Didn't take my camera (all the show pics I've ever taken before have been rubbish), but highlights of the show for me were:
Getting up close to Pavey's Dakar XChallenge
The Ducati Multistrada - it looks better in the flesh than in pics, the sales bloke let me sit on the bike, feels quite compact, not an 'off-road adventure' bike really (far too much vulnerable stuff to hit underneath), more of a posh Triumph Tiger IYKWIM, a test ride beckons....
The Nortons are nice to look at but not comfortable for me, even the straight handlebar version didn't feel right. Very bling though... (I didn't know Chris Walker is their 'sales manager', he was wondering around chatting to peeps.)
The Victory stand. Cruisers aren't my thing
(didn't bother with the Harley stand at all) but I've got to say, Victory are lovely bikes
Bought a new lid (time to try a flip-front), some much-needed tools, and carried home the usual rucksack full of leaflets and brochures.
The Kawasaki Versys. Never sat on one before, but actually very nice. If I was doing a commute I'd seriously think about one.
The eye candy. Yup - there were some very nice sales girls around, FWIW the Maxxis girls got my vote....
The 'meh' bits:
Is it me, or is the current Honda range dull? Wondered onto and then off of their stand without breaking stride. (Mind you, I'm not into sports bikes which doesn't help.)
The beemer S1000rrrrrrrr thing. Big crowds around it, and I can understand the fuss, but it doesn't fit me. At all. Not even in jeans and trainers. KTM do an adjustable sportsbike (RC8), I was expecting better from BMW.
Overall, as someone else has said, it was just about worth the entrance fee. The beemer stand was indeed the best, and the busiest.
(Apologies to Judge that I didn't come up and say hello - every time I wondered past you were deep in sales pitch with someone - hope it was a successful show!)
). Didn't take my camera (all the show pics I've ever taken before have been rubbish), but highlights of the show for me were:
Getting up close to Pavey's Dakar XChallenge
The Ducati Multistrada - it looks better in the flesh than in pics, the sales bloke let me sit on the bike, feels quite compact, not an 'off-road adventure' bike really (far too much vulnerable stuff to hit underneath), more of a posh Triumph Tiger IYKWIM, a test ride beckons....
The Nortons are nice to look at but not comfortable for me, even the straight handlebar version didn't feel right. Very bling though... (I didn't know Chris Walker is their 'sales manager', he was wondering around chatting to peeps.)
The Victory stand. Cruisers aren't my thing
(didn't bother with the Harley stand at all) but I've got to say, Victory are lovely bikes Bought a new lid (time to try a flip-front), some much-needed tools, and carried home the usual rucksack full of leaflets and brochures.
The Kawasaki Versys. Never sat on one before, but actually very nice. If I was doing a commute I'd seriously think about one.
The eye candy. Yup - there were some very nice sales girls around, FWIW the Maxxis girls got my vote....
The 'meh' bits:
Is it me, or is the current Honda range dull? Wondered onto and then off of their stand without breaking stride. (Mind you, I'm not into sports bikes which doesn't help.)
The beemer S1000rrrrrrrr thing. Big crowds around it, and I can understand the fuss, but it doesn't fit me. At all. Not even in jeans and trainers. KTM do an adjustable sportsbike (RC8), I was expecting better from BMW.
Overall, as someone else has said, it was just about worth the entrance fee. The beemer stand was indeed the best, and the busiest.
(Apologies to Judge that I didn't come up and say hello - every time I wondered past you were deep in sales pitch with someone - hope it was a successful show!)
GS Rider
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It was brillant as I had a few pints before going. So it was nice that the show wasn't that big.
Best memory was sitting on a Ducati and pretending to do a knee down as Andy Ibbot of Califonia Superbike school walks pass and laughed
The best way to do the London show is to be slighty tipsy
The £1700 suit was nice but way out of my league financially at the moment. Tempted but didn't get their gore tex glove.
Show girls were lovely especially MCE insurance who had THE BEST OUTFITS! I am going to insure my bike with them this year just to help them stay in business so they can be at other shows
Any pictures of the said attraction.
STUBBS
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I enjoyed it - Stayed at mates on Saturday, thanks Noel ... 
met up with a few tossers and a few more mates at Ace - ride to Excel ... then ride to another mate 'Prem' for bacon baps and tea 
... then blat home with James and Sharon ... great weekend .....
.....oh and the show was good too - it's up to you what to make of these events ..... talk to people and embrace the event and see what's what or run around for an hour and leave ..... we are all different ....
met up with a few tossers and a few more mates at Ace - ride to Excel ... then ride to another mate 'Prem' for bacon baps and tea ... then blat home with James and Sharon ... great weekend ..... .....oh and the show was good too - it's up to you what to make of these events ..... talk to people and embrace the event and see what's what or run around for an hour and leave ..... we are all different ....
Blind Lemon Ade
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That was good fun...
...mooching round the stands, had a sit on the new R1200GS, just 'coz I could, and looked at panniers;
had a chat with the nice man on the Stahlkoffer stand, and was impressed with his product.
Sat on a Harley and pulled faces:
saw the (rather underwhelming) new Multistrada (surely it will look better in red?) :
but the prettiest bike at the show was this one (Mamola's Cagiva):
Oh, and the Missus bought a new helmet and gloves... they didn't have the boots I was after in my size, so it's off to Beaver World, where Helmet City are based.
My mate had been to the NEC in '09, and reckoned there were more of the main marques represented at eXcel, even if Dealers were putting up the stands rather than the Importers. No MV or Touratech, but Adventure Spec and Metal Mule were both there.
...mooching round the stands, had a sit on the new R1200GS, just 'coz I could, and looked at panniers;
had a chat with the nice man on the Stahlkoffer stand, and was impressed with his product.
Sat on a Harley and pulled faces:
saw the (rather underwhelming) new Multistrada (surely it will look better in red?) :
but the prettiest bike at the show was this one (Mamola's Cagiva):
Oh, and the Missus bought a new helmet and gloves... they didn't have the boots I was after in my size, so it's off to Beaver World, where Helmet City are based.
My mate had been to the NEC in '09, and reckoned there were more of the main marques represented at eXcel, even if Dealers were putting up the stands rather than the Importers. No MV or Touratech, but Adventure Spec and Metal Mule were both there.
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he hasnt made his mind up on which camera yet
Didn't take a camera actually .. didn't want to lose it after having a few pints
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