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Copdock Motorcycle Show
30th September 2012
Report & Photos by Mike Davies
The East Anglian Section of the BMW Club has exhibited here at the Copdock Show for several years. The weather has not always been kind!
Today the sun shone with some clouds and the public turned up in large numbers. The show opened at 10.00am but many of us had been there earlier setting up the stand.
This year we were down on bikes with only an R1150RT, R1100RT and an R75/5.
By mid morning the public had filtered into the club stand sheds and we were busy with general enquiries and those wishing to join the club or just looking for the free coffee or tea!
This is my 1973 R75/5 after much work refurbishing it over 6 months. With only 2 previous owners and now reading only 13500 miles on the clock, it is a very low mileage 38 year old BMW, having been laid up for 27 years of its life! I use it every week weather permitting.
We all took turns at walking around the show and I have never seen it so crowded.
Elsewhere there were stands for every conceivable bike related item and our own members, Cliff & Jenny Batley had their own stand displaying a variety of goods and especially panniers systems.
Around 4.30pm, after a very enjoyable and productive day we packed up the stand.
There are always a nucleus of members who always do so much and I must mention the following at this year’s show.
Mark Handley and Dik Langan who staffed the show all day.
I make special mention of Mark Dutton who also staffed the stand all day (National Social Secretary and EA Committee Member) and provided the banners and signs and of course the coffee machine and cakes and biscuits!
We had 6 new members sign up on the day with a few more likely members who all had journals and membership form given them.
Thank you all for making this year’s Copdock Show a resounding success.