The rally was at Hollowell Steam Rally Field again this year. We are friendly with the commitee now so hopefully we will be able to use this site for the forseeable future. We had a good run on prebook tickets before the event so it was decided that we would get a bigger marquee for this year. We have used our own up till now which was two smaller marquees pitched up together but we have outgrown them now.

When we arrived on the Thursday evening to set up, the marquee was already pitched. The good thing about hiring a marquee is the company put it up and take it down, it used to take us hours with our own. The stage arrived soon afterwards so apart from Pete our Chairmen wiring it all we were pretty much set. We had to put up our bar and control tents and we were ready to go.

On Friday people started turning up early afternoon and getting their tents pitched. The trade stalls and food van had turned up as well and were well on there way to getting their stalls set up. There was a bit of a heatwave in the month leading up to the event so we were confident that we would have good weather as well. It was a bit overcast all weekend and we had a few odd showers in the evening and overnight but it was very windy all weekend. We lost our control tent due to the wind so we threw it on the skip.

Most of the pre-book people came on Friday and a lot off pay on the gate people turned up as well breaking our record of people on Friday. There was a rock disco on the Friday night, we have had live music on the Friday in the past but the feedback we received told us that people just wanted to chill out after a week at work. So the live music was scrapped on Friday a couple of years ago and this seemed better.

Saturday came and as people recovered and started to appear there was a ride out planned, which was a ride through the lanes of Northants. By the time the ride out came back and all the stragglers were back on site the silly games were being organised. After Blocks, Throwing, Eating, Drinking, and Dizzy Sticks there was a Sumo arena set up for all the brave souls who wanted to beat the shit out of each other. We were charging £2 a go with all the profits going to charity, we also did a raffle with all the money going to the same charity which was BREAKTHROUGH BREAST CANCER. Carol our rally rep is walking 60km over a weekend in September, thats 40 miles. See the link on the home page for more details.

Saturday night came and we started off with a rock disco followed by live music by 90% PROOF. During a break in the band the raffle was drawn and the trophies were handed out for the silly games, club turnout and furthest travelled. The awards for the custom show were given out as well. Earlier in the day we took a wander round the camp site and had a look at the bikes.

Sunday came and everybody packed up and went home. Everybody we spoke to seemed too have a good time over the weekend.