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I know there are a few posts on the board for this already, however without offending this will be the official and only one that will matter from now on. Could I ask that everyone uses this one from now on please and I will post any developments and info as I get it on this thread.

I will try and address everything with the following list.

THE EVENT IS FREE TO ENTER FOR EXHIBITING ENTRANTS AND THE VISITING PUBLIC. THE EVENT IS BASICALLY A MEET WITH A 9 MILE RIDE INTO BRISTOL WITH BETWEEN 100-150 OTHER ITALIAN BIKES, PARK UP ITALIAN STYLE IN CLOSED OFF STREETS WITH EVERY ITALIAN CAR MARQUE YOU CAN THINK OF AS WELL, AND THEN BE ENCOROUGED TO START UP AND MAKE AS MUCH NOISE AS POSSIBLE.

THE MEETING PLACE
The meeting place will be junction 19 of the M5 motorway in the car park of the motorway services at Easton In Gordanno. We will meet in the far corner near the raised grass bank. (This is out of the way of where the cars tend to park and as the bank is raised, will provide a good vantage point to photograph the masses of bikes. It will also keep us out of the way of the main building and any complaints from the services manager).

THE DEPARTURE TIME
We will meet at 09oohrs with a departure time of 0930hrs. (This will give us 30 minutes to travel the 9 miles or so into Bristol and enter the festival for 1000hrs as requested by the organisers.)

THE ROUTE
The route will be out of the main entrance of the services and turning left onto the A369 towards Bristol, We will then make an immediate right turn into High Street (Portbury Village), once in the village we will follow the road around to the left and onto Mill Lane. The route will now rise up through a series of bends and carry on through woods and forests. At the end of this road we will meet the B3128 and turn left following the signs for Failand and Bristol. We will follow this road and go straight across at the traffic light controlled cross roads and carry on following the B3128 as it twists and turns and drops down through more forests until it meets the A370. Once on the A370 we will then follow the signs for Bristol City Centre over the cumberland basin bridge and then follow the A4 towards the centre. We will enter the centre and keep right turning back on our selves before following the road left and into Baldwin Street. The entrance that we must take into the festival is on the left with a dropped kerb at the Edwards Public House. Duncan and Co will endevour to park you up promptly. (I have left out the Clifton Suspension Bridge due to the fact that we have the start stop issue when approaching the bridge and once we have crossed it, to allow people to catch up. It was a bit of fun last year and a bit of an experiment to see how it went, but I have decided to leave it out this year. The bridge is an old antique and 100-200 bikes crossing it in one go is a no no for the bridge people. The rest of the route is fairly straight forward with the only hazzard being 8 sets of traffic lights! There is nothing that can be done about that as this route passes the least sets of lights believe it or not into Bristol.

POLICE ESCORTS
Police escorts will possibly cost money and in the words of a Ducati owner and Police Inspector "probably ruin it". I did enquire about this last and it was pointed out to me that someone higher up the ladder would make all sorts of demands and restraints on the ride in. There could be possible cost implications to and this could not be met by anyone as we (The Organisers) are determined to keep this festival free for all, the fact that in this day and age streets will be closed, marshalls supplied, a ride in for the bikes, a Ducati trailer supplied for the day and no entrance fee for exhibiting cars and bikes and the visiting public being asked, is all AMAZING! Also we (The Oganisers) are not a club and so we do not have funds of any sort.

VOLOUNTEER MARSHALLS
I am looking for volounteers to marshall the ride in, I require 5 or 6 people who are able to meet either the night before or earlier, and supply their own high vizi vests. The riding marshalls job will be to give anyone caught at traffic lights and junctions directions to catch the rest of the group back up should they get separated (which is going to happen at some point). You will ride with the group and all be allocated lights and junctions to stop at to mop up.

Riders Ducati dealership look set to lend us the trailer we had last year and the chap who brought the race bike that we displayed may be bringing more! The other thing which could be needed is a supply of accommodation for travellers from a far. I have a spare room and could put up 1 or more people.

I would appreciate it if people could fill in the attached poll, so that we know how much bike parking space we will need at the festival.

I hope like me you are all looking forward to it.
View Poll Results: Who is joining the ride in and who is going to go straight there?
Meeting the ride in 76 95.00%
Going straight there 4 5.00%
Voters: 80. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 26 Apr 08, 06:25 PM   #211 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Tardman View Post
A well organised event and great to see so many Ducs in one place - I'm surprised I was the only Hypermotard!
All the other one's run out of petrol. Did not organize well enough or way to brave :P
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Old 26 Apr 08, 06:33 PM   #212 (permalink)
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Many thanks to all for today. I had a great day out today and the sight of so many Dukes at Gordano when we arrived was fantastic. Hi to all we spoke to today it was great to put a face to some names. On the please start your engines we had a good test on the rev limiters!!!!!So many thanks from the gang from over the bridge.

See you all again soon....DOW and ernie many thanks for your company today.
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Old 26 Apr 08, 06:34 PM   #213 (permalink)
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I would have been there with my retard but the wife 'dropped' unexpectedly yesterday so I was left holding the other baby so to speak. All was not lost though as I made it to Gordano to witness the 'gathering' and an impressive sight it was too.
Hope everyone enjoyed themselves and well done to Rich for pulling it all together.
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Old 26 Apr 08, 06:47 PM   #214 (permalink)
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I would have been there with my retard but the wife 'dropped' unexpectedly yesterday so I was left holding the other baby so to speak
Hey - congrats!

Thank you Tortuga for the unenviable job of organising the fairly unorganisable. Hellos to everyone I met today, and to the charmant Aprilia guy we picked up in a service station for the ride to Gordano (and who will not be reading this! )

Those Lancia rally cars we passed on the way in were so cool! (oops, hush ma mouth!)
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Old 26 Apr 08, 06:51 PM   #215 (permalink)
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Tortuga - Thank you for organising the day. Sorry we didn't stay till the very end.
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Tortuga... many thanks for a top day out.

Haven't been before but can safely say we'll be back in '09. Fab weather and the chance to meet old friends and make new ones... spot on..!!

Big HI to Paul and Guy, who see things the Enlightened Way... see attached.
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Originally Posted by drinky View Post
I would have been there with my retard but the wife 'dropped' unexpectedly yesterday so I was left holding the other baby so to speak. All was not lost though as I made it to Gordano to witness the 'gathering' and an impressive sight it was too.
Hope everyone enjoyed themselves and well done to Rich for pulling it all together.
Congrats on the new arrival!
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Old 26 Apr 08, 07:59 PM   #218 (permalink)
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A HUGE thanks to Duncan,JR and Tortuga, as well as others for their hard work today
AK & I joined the (153 italian bike) ride-in (as well as a few others tacked on the back) - all led by Tortuga who arranged the meet, route & ride etc.
A very good mix of friendly faces on Aprilla's, Moto Guzzi's, Laverda's, Benelli's as well as over 90+ Ducati's in the ride-in - which I REALLY enjoyed.
Fantastic day out - so many bikes in the centre already there, when we all arrived, swelling the numbers even more.
A long day out, but great to catch up with old & new faces

Great night out last night too - food & company was ace! (but I must tell RodH to behave;-) - also finally big thanks for Tortuga for putting us up last night - many thanks mate

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Great night out last night too - food & company was ace! (but I must tell RodH to behave;-)
...........and why is that exactly ...........great to meet you both.

Tortuga, once again another great ride in...........well done
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...........and why is that exactly ...........great to meet you both.

Tortuga, once again another great ride in...........well done
RodH I do not think we meet on that meet. Was thinking how to fish you out of the crowd. One of ideas was to put sticker on your bike. Version 2.0 :P
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RodH I do not think we meet on that meet. Was thinking how to fish you out of the crowd. One of ideas was to put sticker on your bike. Version 2.0 :P
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Yes congrats to all involved What a great day and somebody fixed the weather as well Top job chaps
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Originally Posted by RodH View Post
...........and why is that exactly ...........great to meet you both.

Tortuga, once again another great ride in...........well done
Lovely to meet you too RodH - you are one cheeky chappie!

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I went down to bristol today, in the car with Mrs R, who doesn't like going on the bike much ( well not 125 mls much anyway)
fantastic day, some great bikes and cars, highlight was hearing a desmosedici, in all its glory.


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Originally Posted by DarrenR View Post
highlight was hearing a desmosedici, in all its glory.

I left at 2:30 but was there when it was fired-up at about 2:00pm. I was underwhelmed ... a bit of a lame effort I thought. Was it started again later .... and did he give it some real beans?
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