A Great Event and Much Interest in EKAM
The weekend of 10th and 11th August was something of a scorcher and the Betteshanger Sprint enjoyed perfect conditions for what is one of my favourite events. After the travails of Covid the event now seems to be fully up to speed (no pun intended). [No really].
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The event was well organised with a fascinating selection of machinery to see both on and off the track, a large number of stands displaying and selling ‘stuff’ and the availability of an interesting selection of ‘event’ refreshments to calm hunger pains and thirst. With 3 bands livening up the social area the evenings were fun and, for those of us camping, even the Peroni was good!
As usual EKAM were there with our stand and a full complement of members to explain and discuss who we are and what we are about. And a great success it was so well-done Kevin and John for organising and managing the two days, and to the rest of us for showing up and exercising our persuasive skills.
A stand promoting skills improvement is probably always less attractive than, say, the tuning firm opposite with an MV Augusta, or the half dozen dealers surrounding us with shiny new stock. We nevertheless had a steady stream of visitors and at the end of the weekend over 30 signed up expressions of interest with more who went away pondering the information we had given them. Amongst the mix were 3 bike groups all looking at the possibility of group ITAMs. The level of positive interest was very, very encouraging.
As for the Show itself the opportunity to ‘go see’ was there so all of us on the stand did just that at some point (there’s a perk to every job….).
Sights ranged from ancient machinery with limited performance to full blown drag bikes, Dressed Gold Wing trikes to stripped down racers, mopeds to a kid on a go kart (doing donuts) and, not forgetting, the newly married couple in full wedding gear negotiating the strip on a Ural sidecar outfit.
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There were a large number of bike clubs with stands, all of whom seemed to have a home built ‘special’ of some sort lurking somewhere and of course there were stands selling a huge variety of items from that elusive part for a 1930s Rudge to, ahem, “fashion garments”.
But if you didn’t want to buy a dress, or something rusty, there were a whole range of other offerings in-between.
Great weekend and well recommended. If you didn’t make it this time do join in next year.
Evening falls after a hectic day of noise and action