R.I.P. BMF

[vernon]

The BMF must go back to grass roots this weekend was a shambles, hi viz men serching for ale!, £3 quid for a can of ale when you get in. Take my advice pack orton showground in and start again somewhere else.

 

[TERRY RYAN]

I went two years ago and vowed I would never go again
seemed like cheap seconds
and a Sunday market with Asians selling of cheap or should that be expensive crap gear

went to north Yorkshire for a ride around nice a quite suppose they
where at bmf

 

[Engineer]

I have given up on the BMF - it's nothing but a heap of sh*t these days.

 

[Backmarker]

I went two years ago and vowed I would never go again
seemed like cheap seconds
and a Sunday market with Asians selling of cheap or should that be expensive crap gear

went to north Yorkshire for a ride around nice a quite suppose they
where at bmf

Ahhh, a racist, bigoted, ignorant Yorkshireman. What a novelty

 

[dicky on one]

gone to the dogs

its a pity the A1 wasent shut on friday ,it would off being alot better to stay up in the shit hole of yorkshire and go to the snooty fox .On a plus note it was nice to meet zed zed , and steve ,noddy .onyack

 

[dangermouse]

iam yorkshire

Ahhh, a racist, bigoted, ignorant Yorkshireman. What a novelty

THATS A NICE THING TO SAY ,U COULD ALWAYS RIDE IN YOUR OWN SMOG ON A WEEK END.

 

[Gauche Rider]

I agree...

I decided to risk the weather and made the trip down from God's Own to my first BMF on the Saturday afternoon. Bag o' shite. There were bargains, but very few, and did anyone go in the Hein Gericke tent? Christ alone knows where that load of tat came from. It looked like well used / destroyed stuff that was too bad for ebay.

 

[STUBBS]

THATS A NICE THING TO SAY ,U COULD ALWAYS RIDE IN YOUR OWN SMOG ON A WEEK END.

no need to shout some of us have bad heads

 

[Qmouse]

The BMF must go back to grass roots this weekend was a shambles,

Fully agree,

I spent the weekend there marshalling, proberly my last.

Catering the prices are set by the showground, used to be the bmf
Organising the rally.. Outsourced
Security….. Outsourced
Crime… A lot more this year, than last.
Stands, you now have a load more of none bike related stalls.
A lot more people will not be coming back again.

A Memba Rally, for members by members. Not a cash cow to finance the whole bmf for the year.

 

[Zed Zed]

the BMF??????????

I was at the BMF to promote the bike club i ride with, apart from the blooming weather had a great time

Was with a dozen other club members whom some of found some good buys, so horses for courses

if i had to go as a punter.........no way!

I was on the real ale so £3 a pint was ok

also being on the main show ground met a few GSERS too

till the next time, be happy

 

[yen_powell]

The BMF must go back to grass roots this weekend was a shambles, QUOTE]

Fully agree,

I spent the weekend there marshalling, proberly my last.

Catering the prices are set by the showground, used to be the bmf
Organising the rally.. Outsourced
Security….. Outsourced
Crime… A lot more this year, than last.
Stands, you now have a load more of none bike related stalls.
A lot more people will not be coming back again.

A Memba Rally, for members by members. Not a cash cow to finance the whole bmf for the year.

The security seemed mainly to be about stopping people taking beer into the music venue. Wish someone had mentioned that before everyone turned up with their own beer as they've done for the last 15 years. Pity some of the anti-beer security wasn't around when the mass thievery was taking place in the camping fields. I felt sorry for the volunteers who were getting grief over that.

I kept hearing people saying they wouldn't be coming back as well, including my mate who had his only pair of trousers stolen as he slept, with all his money in them and his girlfriends purse was emptied of cash. 6 tents around me were raided. One girl woke up to find a teenager in her tent who promptly legged it. This wasn't just the outer part of the tents, they were going into sleeping compartments and reaching over sleeping people for handbags etc.

 

[judge]

Was at the show in two capacities this weekend, working for Ultimate where in there wisdom BMF organiser put 6 manufacturers of hearing protection in the same shed and two next door to each other, not so much of a problem for us as we hold prime position in that shed but common sense should have prevailed and made more use of the available spaces around the show.

I was also there representing a club and found ourselves in little more than a club social field with little to attract the punters out of the main show area and into the 'village', in years gone by Carole Nash sponsored a massive Best in Show Marquee and a live stage which brought the punters down, this year there was neither and the village was tacked on to the auto jumble.

Next year I think if we go we'll move back into the main show area where the punters seem to want to stay.

That said none of that stopped me enjoying myself and enjoying a good weekend, even the M11 closure and standing kicking tyres with 30 bikes for an hour could put a dampner on things. Cos I met an old GS pal and we had a catch up

I did have some job convincing someone from here I wasn't Zed Zed and he didn't work for Ultimate Ear though - managed to find Zed Zed on his club's stand (the Civil's were the gievaway) and his name patch confirmed it for me

 

[vernon]

Ahhh, a racist, bigoted, ignorant Yorkshireman. What a novelty

All cockneys have left that sh*t hole and come up north putting up prices for us true English Men who live near the real Capital YORK. So stop down there and keep off our section if yours is sh*te.

 

[flat twin]

I used to go down to the show every year to help run the MAG stand but no more I am glad to say. I have been a BMF member for a lot of years and plan to be for a lot more, but I find it harder each year to justify it I am afraid, but that said I will carry on.
The show is no longer run by the BMF and is organised by a company that does all types of events for any market, but mainly truck fests.
I think to the BMF needs to go back to the people, but the people need to be willing to do the stuff they employ a company to do.
There is a noticeable amount of more and more theft at rallies and even at the MAG events I am involved with we don't suffer mass theft but we find lost wallets and purses come back with the cash missing, but the cards still there, were as it used to be the money came back as well.
Flat Twin.

 

[trebor]

There is a noticeable amount of more and more theft at rallies .....

Sad but true, these low lifes get everywhere. A friend was telling me that the NABD Rally the weekend before suffered a lot of latenight/early morning tent theft.
I have been going to a World music festival every year for the last twenty years or so. In the early days there was no theft, or nothing that you'd write home about, but now tent thieves are rife.
them I say!

Bob

 

[judge]

The stand opposite us had a bag swiped from their stand containing all their takings (about £2.5k), house keys, car keys, purse and credit cards and passport - someone had a good haul with that one - and this is in the afternoon in the business of a trading show.

At shows we tend to have people steal product samples - and the point of nicking a product sample of a custom product is what?

 

[Steve]

On a plus note it was nice to meet zed zed , and steve ,noddy .onyack

Nice to meet you too mate.

Much easier to understand you lot when I can lip read at the same time as listen

 

[flat twin]

Sad but true, these low lifes get everywhere. A friend was telling me that the NABD Rally the weekend before suffered a lot of latenight/early morning tent theft.

I went to the NABD for a party weekend and its true, the theft was quite rife. Johnson's of Leeds nearly lost a generator due to the thieves trying to swipe it.

Just to start a row I blame cars at rallies myself, there is a lot to be said for the crowd that follows festivals albeit bike, music, or owt else for that matter, you get professional thieves that go for nothing more than to steel while people are watching the main band, the big race, or pissed asleep in the tent and not having cars does limit that element out of the equation.

sorry but its true.

Flat Twin

 

[vernon]

I agree with Flat Twin chavs in cars etc, my wife and i were at the non memba camping at the BMF Fiasco and there were idiots fighting with KIPPERS.

 

[wader]

Ahhh, a racist, bigoted, ignorant Yorkshireman. What a novelty

Your ignorance to the term 'racist' is quite amusing.