GT Malverns Classic – roll call

To end on a positive note it was refreshing to see hardly any litter.

Really? Andy, Nigel, me and a couple of the volunteers spent about 30 minutes clearing the area in front of the stage on Sunday while Chipps was soft-rocking our hangovers away!

Anyhow, photo’s.

How fat is my face on that picture @tthew

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I was a bit gutted about the lack of demo bikes – I deliberately didn’t take my bike because I thought I’d be able to demo stuff like previous years. Catering queues were horrendous too, I really felt for the staff (especially when a woman had a massive rant at the pizza stand as she’d queued for over an hour not knowing what size the pizzas were… )

Still a great event though, lovely atmosphere, and brilliant seeing all the kids on bikes! Our five year old also seems to have developed a love of late 80s/early 90s dance tunes as a result of the band on Saturday, the weirdo. I’m also pretty certain that we’re going to end up with some 90s retro bike in the garage – Mr Toast has been waxing lyrical about old Zaskars and GTs for years, I think it might have pushed him over the edge…

Talking to a few of the brands, supply is such such problem this year that they don’t really have current demo fleets because there just aren’t any bikes to spare.

There is more than 1 bike brand that gave the show a miss this year because of this, which actively bodes well for it getting even bigger and better in the future as things return to ‘normal’

Yeah, I should have realised really in retrospect – I was looking for a new bike a few months ago, and a lot of shops/brands that usually do demos said that the manufacturers were so short of stock that they didn’t have a 2021 demo fleet (or in some cases, stuff to sell).

Probably for the best, last time I rode Castle Eastnor it didn’t end well! (*flashbacks to MM 2012*)