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Sorry, never bumped into any of you at the show.
All in all I have to admit I was a little bit disappointed this year, I get the feeling the proportion of stalls selling just junk is going up each year. I had a shopping list for the day, I ended up buying nothing from the list. I'll quite happily go to the local Glasgow mc shops and pick everything up there instead - might cost me more, but at least I don't have to trail through buckets of pick-and-mix bike miscellania to find it....
Honday didn't bother turning up for the show - had a chat to their Perth dealer later on Sat and turns out they had an argument with MCN and therefore dropped the whole thing. Not that I'm after a Honda at such, but I always jump on the Varadero just to compare the big traillies. Out of the one's that were there the only interesting one's were obviously the Tiger and the 990Adv. I had to laugh at the GS Adventure - apologies to anyone owning this bike - i.m.h.o. BMW has just gone completely OTT and turned it into a massive Tonkatoy battle tank, 12 grand is starting to get a bit ridiculous, and I can't see how the overland crowd would choose it over the slim and probably lighter 990Adv any more....
Highlight of the day was however getting to have a chat to Nick Sanders, who was running his own stall selling his books and DVD's. Nice guy, even offered us his goods on a "send me a cheque later" basis when we couldn't find a working cash machine at first. Got his book and DVD both signed so looking forward to spending some hours reading/watching them. (For anyone unaware of who Nick Sanders is, he's a long distance UK bike traveller who set the round the world time record in 19 days 3 hours a couple of years ago.)
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