{"id":33,"date":"2006-10-29T12:41:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T12:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-10-29T12:41:25","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T12:41:25","slug":"motorcycle-and-scooter-show-nec-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/motorcycle-and-scooter-show-nec-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle and Scooter Show &#8211; NEC 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got back from the 2006 Motorcycle and Scooter Show at the NEC quite late on Friday night and have just started going through my swag bags. I&#8217;m quite pleased to say I managed to bag 8 side-stand pucks, 24 sweets, 12 pens, 4 key rings and a free poster of a topless girl on a bike&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Flickr set for the show is <a title=\"Flcikr Set\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/sets\/72157594349734295\/\">HERE <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I did buy quite a few things too&#8230; some <a title=\"Scottoiler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scottoiler.com\/\">Scottoiler<\/a> protection spray and de-greaser, a BSA key ring for my Grandfather, 2 calandars for the garage, I even manged to get Charlie Boorman to sign a copy of his latest book.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Charlie signing my book\" title=\"Charlie signing my book\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/103\/281432736_47ac8fddd5.jpg?w=768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This pic is from <a title=\"Lee Harker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilcoffee\/sets\/72157594348564299\/\">Lee Harkers B&#038;W set<\/a> from the show. Lee is a really good photographer and took some stunning shots of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The show was fantastic this year, much better than last year &#8211; even though many of the stands where the same as last year, there seemed to be much more to see. I admit we did pay extra to go on the preview day so it was fairly quiet,  we got to sit on a lot more bikes than normal.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights included the Two Wheels Only girls, Becky in particular!<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"TWO Girl\" id=\"image29\" alt=\"TWO Girl\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/twogirl.jpg?w=768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also spent a lot of time on the Triumph stand &#8211; I must admit I&#8217;m starting to pay serious thought to the new Triumph Tiger rather than the CBF1000 &#8211; more on that soon, must book a test ride.<\/p>\n<p>Lee had a wonderful time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image30\" alt=\"Lee with Pint\" title=\"Lee with Pint\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/lee_with_pint.jpg?w=768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also spotted something the new Garmin GPS unit aimed at bikers&#8230; I have to say I&#8217;m really disapointed with it &#8211; I&#8217;ll post more about this when I sit down and go through all the literature properly.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garmain GPS Unit\" id=\"image32\" title=\"Garmain GPS Unit\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/garmin.jpg?w=768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So all in all a very good show &#8211; well worth going to see &#8211; I could have done with another day to really get around it properly &#8211; but it was very very entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got back from the 2006 Motorcycle and Scooter Show at the NEC quite late on Friday night and have just started going through my swag bags. I&#8217;m quite pleased to say I managed to bag 8 side-stand pucks, 24 sweets, 12 pens, 4 key rings and a free poster of a topless girl on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/motorcycle-and-scooter-show-nec-2006\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Motorcycle and Scooter Show &#8211; NEC 2006&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}