From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Zippidy doo dah, zippidy day, me oh my I'm in love with a gay(?)!
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:25:16 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
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Well I made it to the MAGna Carta Rally and it was great!  Thousands of bikers
showed up, I mean THOUSANDS!  They were riding everything you can think of, 
including Hardlys, Chops, UJMs, BMs, Brits, Scooters (loads), 'Peds, Trikes,
Cages(!), LandRovers, MZs, CZs, Cossack Urinals, Benellis, Augustas, Lavs, 
Guzzis, new Triumphs (envy) etc.

I pitched tent in a field with maybe five hundred bikes and tents in, and then
made my way to the centre of the activities.  There were loads of stalls,
selling all sorts of stuff from Hardly parts to frilly knickers.  The prices
were very reasonable as most of the traders there were MAG members and were not
out to rip people off (get their heads ripped off if they did, maybe!?).  There
was a great turnout for the bike competition with some fantastic bikes and
paintwork, I took a business card from a FiloFax of photos chained to a nice 
example.  I will give her a ring today as I would like my K's tank beautified.
Some of the bikes there were wonderful, incredible trikes, including one with 
a Porsche engine!  I liked the early Kawa 500 triple with drum brakes, but some
of the best bikes were the Rat-Bikes, some so revolting you wouldn't want to 
sit on them, some were Mad-Max type bikes includng an amazing GoldWing engined
behemoth which looked like a sort of mechanical wolf, looking for it's prey; 
it was _completely_ matt black.

Later on, there was an amazing tug-of-war competition between bikes roughly 
matched by MAG marshalls.  The GoldWing ratbike was pitted against another
wonderful Mad-Max bike with a GS1000ish heart, the two were very evenly matched
as the result was a draw but in the process, the latter bike, which had 
knobblys dug a huge hole in the ground!  Soil was shot high in the air and the 
crowd went absolutely ape-shit! (Me also!)  Next into the arena came a Suzuki
125 learner 2-stroke race-replica (Team Durex) and a slightly nerdy looking
clean fresh faced looking boy on an MZ-125.  The guy on the Suzuki was a Tom
Cruise fan and tried to look the part.  He sneered at the lowly MZ and we all
just kind of instantly hated him because we knew the L1800+ Suzuki was going to
thrash the L600ish MZ farm-bike.  The marshalls tied the rope, positioned the 
red rag and then did the countdown......The MZ WON!!!  It pulled the Suzuki
right out from under the sycophantic dork's bum and boy was he red!  He ran off
and then reappeared with his own bike which was a Yamaha 600 single four-stroke
thingy, (Revere?) which did look fairly nice.  He declared his intention to 
take both two-strokes on and the crowd agreed.  The marshalls tied the ropes, 
set the rag and set them off......The same thing happened again!  He also bent
his mirror this time and to all of our delights, he buggered off!  Yippee!  It
made me almost want to rush out and buy an MZ (I did say ALMOST!)  At least
it's European! (German now).

In a large hall, there was a bar selling drinks at Southern prices, but again
not a rip off unlike some of the show bars I've been to.  Later, in the 
evening, they had music playing and then had some announcements, particularly
about memorial funds and FEM, the Federation of European Motorcyclists who are
fighting the beaurocracy in Brussels to stop all the garbage regulations they
keep trying to bring out ie Leg Protectors, 100BHP limit, Compulsory Daytime
Lights, Type Approval etc.  Etc.  They collected loads of money for these 
causes and then they held the wet-tee-shirt competition, which wasn't:-

Four pretty girls came on stage (no pun), they were just from the audiance and
wanted to win the prize money (L60). They took off their tops to some ace 
music and poured and smoothed Baby-Oil all over their breasts.  Two of them, in
an attempt to add some support from the judges (us, the audiance) took 
_everything_ off and applied liberal amounts of oil to _everything_!  It was 
quite fun, especially the judging when they each got a chance to wiggle and 
cavort and we shouted our approval.  (disapproval bit here: I know it is 
sexist, childish, and neanderthal but it was great fun, they seemed to be 
enjoying it (kept grinning) and there were loads of women in the audiance and 
I didn't see any of them with a disapproving look on their faces.  I guess 
Biker Women are a little bit different to the Type Approved Housewife (Ford 
Fiesta etc.) woman.

Another gorgeous woman appeared on the stage and from the way her top kept
trying to fall off, I thought she was going to start showing a bit more flesh
but she proposed out-loud to a very handsome guy in the audiance, who agreed
(it would be a bit embarrassing not to) and they threw themselves into each
other's arms to the crowd's roar of approval (such a romantic lot, really).

After the body fun, there was a reasonable band, fronted by 'Doc', a guy who
reads the letters and sings on the Telly Program `That's Life'.  He is a 
complete wan*er but knows it and seemed to sing mostly about that!  It was a
bit different from his usual inane verbage on the Telly.  The band played slow
blues stuff, sort of rhythm-and-blues I guess, not bad, and not a single can 
was thrown!

There were some police there, I saw about six, probably outnumbered about 
1001:1 by bikes, never mind bikers.  I saw two police-bikers, off-duty, 
perusing the trade stalls.  Probably looking for leather accessories for their
cop-BMs!

I gave a guy a lift home, as he lived near me, and made a new friend.  He's
going to give me info on local bike clubs.  We might go the the Rock and Blues
custom show oop North together, next weekend.

I felt a bit rebellious and bought a Dutch army shirt and a German army cap.  
It made me feel a bit more bikey and anyway they were cheap, L3.5 for both!
What _did_ take my fancy was some American leather jacket and jeans which were
patterned to look like blue denim.  They were made by Steen or somebody like
that, the leather felt soft and very comfortable.  The trader wanted L85 for
the jeans and L125 for the jacket.  Do any of you ex-colonials know anything
about this?  I might go and buy them next month when I get paid.


Nick            DoD 1069

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"Just another brick....
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