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BSH Bike Show Results
Best Streetfighter - Suzuki GSXR
Best Bit on the Side - BSA Combo
Best Original - 1928 Indian
Best Minimal - Suzuki
Best Chop - Triumph Bonneville
Best Trike -
Honda Goldwing, (no picture we’re afraid)
Best in Show - Grobo's Repsol Honda Chop
The Repsol chop has won awards at several MAG rallies now, but never scooped the overall Best in Show award before. As well as earning the winner the biggest trophy, it also includes £100 cash, plus, two free tickets to the rock and bike fest in Derbyshire (worth £80). To say Grobo was somewhat pleased is an understatement.
Blessedly the rain held off for the awards ceremony this year. Thanks to the lovely Adele for handing out the trophies and to BSH for organising the show and the trophies.
BSH Xtreme Custom Bike Show
If custom bikes interest you don’t forget this show in the East Midlands, September 20-22 (see ad page 6) MAG are handling the camping where there will be music and real ale. Profits from the camping side of things go to MAG.
Is it good value?
The Farmyard Party has always been called ‘A party With a Purpose’ because it was set up to raise money to finance MAG’s campaigning. The ticket price is kept very modest to provide the kind of value that draws people back year after year. Yorkshire MAG are able to do this because an army of over 200 marshals work for nothing. With paid staff to run the show the ticket price would be around double what it is. Not only that, the marshals actually buy their tickets. It’s just part of the spirit of the event.
‘The infrastructure alone costs £158,000’
In recognition of the state of the economy, increases to reflect rising costs have been held perilously low. Every effort to find savings has been made while great investment in covered areas totalling 72,000 square feet has been made to provide shelter against bad weather. Sadly this year the sky dealt us a poor hand yet
again and numbers were well down on recent years. It tells us something that the Facebook site publicising ‘Farmyard weather’ got 10,216 hits while the ‘What’s on at the Farmyard?’ got only 3714 hits.
Current calculations don’t indicate a loss but there is unlikely to be the kind of fat cheque handed over to MAG that the organisation had come to rely on from years past. The infrastructure alone costs around £158,000. That covers everything on the ground, from site rent to the last band walking on the stage. It does not include the running of the event, paid staff wages, marshals costs, ticket printing or accountants and the dreaded VAT man. To make this kind of investment while vulnerable to the vagaries of the weather is nerve wracking. MAG is looking at its funding with an emphasis on outdoor events and our dependence on them. The exasperating truth is that 70 per cent of the people who go to The Farmyard Party are not MAG members. If those who came but did not join had done so, MAG would have made up more than the shortfall in profit from the lower attendance this year.
MAG thanks everyone who came to The Farmyard for supporting the event. If you hadn’t taken a chance on the weather and come, the future of the event would have looked very uncertain. As things stand the Farmyard will go ahead next year but in pegging the ticket price as low as we do there isn’t enough margin to survive financially if the weather hits us badly and support falls further. If you are reading someone else’s copy of this magazine please do one thing more. Join us. If you’re a member and you know riders who are not, please put this under their noses and ask them to go on line right now and join.
www.mag-uk.org or ring 01926 844064
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