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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 28 Apr 08, 08:51 AM   #256 (permalink)
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I'm totally envious of all who went on Saturday. I was stuck in a glass showroom twiddling my thumbs doing sod all, when i should've been joining you all in Bristol.

It looked and sounded like you all had a great day, and i'm gutted i didn't throw a sicky, but Tortuga count me in for the next one. As soon as you know the date could you post it so i can book the day off.

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I had a really fun day and pass on my thanks to Tortuga for organising it all. It was great to add a few more faces to names. I have to say thanks to multimental for navigating us down through some fantastic roads on the way down.
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Old 28 Apr 08, 01:28 PM   #258 (permalink)
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I had a really fun day and pass on my thanks to Tortuga for organising it all. It was great to add a few more faces to names.

Me too . Rode up with welsh999 & ernie2012 , great to meet up with you .
Later bumped into SuperlightV & we all headed back to Wales together ...
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sounds like me but cant say i have been called 'YOUNG' recently - if it was me you saw thanks
Yep that was the young couple I saw.

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Old 28 Apr 08, 06:57 PM   #260 (permalink)
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Just wanted to pass my thanks on to all concerned.

Excellent organising from Tortuga et al.

Good to meet some new people and to meet up with those we already knew.

Happy days!
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[quote=Tortuga;176709]Well folks
Noteworthy is worthy of a mention as he was our longest travelling bike, Switzerland to Bristol, respect respect respect. He is ill Famosi Uno 2008 So who's up for Bristol 2009.
I have plans for next year, I will need a bit of a hand though getting it together and will post in the not distant future of what it is and how we can achieve it

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Tortuga It was indeed a pleasure to visit the Bristol event and to meet a few of the fellow Ducatisti and yourself. "Pavarotti" (my ST4s) was delighted to have popped over to Blighty for a short run out - the first of the 2008 season. The effort was all his as I just sit on top and virtually auto pilot him. We would both love to come again and will make every effort to do so.

Now if I may, I would like to thank two fellow Ducatisti that made the event a delight for us both: firstly to Stafford who provided shelter and company for Pavarotti (I sure the 3 Ducs - ney Tenors - sang thunderously deep soulful arias in the garage) whilst Stafford and Northworthy sank some lovely English ales the night before And to The Old Buzzard, who's comments on the day reminded me that all's not lost in Albion - may you ride for many more years Sire, but, please do read the manual on "Marshalling" again before next years event

Finally, my congratulations to all who turned up on their bikes and to all those "backroom folks" who put so much hard work into making such events a delight for everyone to visit. Well Done Everyone.

Oh and just for T.O.B and Tortuga - it's NORTHWORTHY not "noteworthy"
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Oh and just for T.O.B and Tortuga - it's NORTHWORTHY not "noteworthy"
TBH, it's a bit of both, really!
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TBH, it's a bit of both, really!
Indeed, this may have started out as a slight error but, from now on my friend, you are to be know as "Noteworthy".....and justifiably so!

(Although the jibe about marshalling was a bit bellow the belt.....what did I do)
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(Although the jibe about marshalling was a bit bellow the belt.....what did I do)
You allowed an owd amateur sandbagger like me to slip into a professional ride-in full of much more capable riders than I, and then permitted me to sneak over the City's defences. Dam poor show - you'd have been on junkers if you were on my watch Once spotted you should have forced me off the road and hauled me over to the local Constabulary for a "shakedown".

My thanks to you TOB and Paivi for your kind "noteworthy" accolades, but really, I've known stouter fellows deliver bags of coal on the back Beezers to mad Muftis thru sandstorms n shrapnel for a bounty of a tanner. Them's truely noteworthy chaps.
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You allowed an owd amateur sandbagger like me to slip into a professional ride-in full of much more capable riders than I, and then permitted me to sneak over the City's defences. Dam poor show - you'd have been on junkers if you were on my watch Once spotted you should have forced me off the road and hauled me over to the local Constabulary for a "shakedown".

My thanks to you TOB and Paivi for your kind "noteworthy" accolades, but really, I've known stouter fellows deliver bags of coal on the back Beezers to mad Muftis thru sandstorms n shrapnel for a bounty of a tanner. Them's truely noteworthy chaps.
It has to be said young Noteworthy that it's probably only thee and me who understands a word of the above...oh, and I think you might mean being on "jankers", being on "junkers" was more to do with being able to shout "ACHTUNG ACHTUNG SHPITENFIER" and initiate a screaming downward spiral in order to evade the attentions some young, fresh faced, Jonny uttering in laconic tones "Tally Ho, breaking left, choose your targets"

Bye the bye, I may well have intercepted an errant Swiss registered bolide if I could have cought up with it
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It has to be said young Noteworthy that it's probably only thee and me who understands a word of the above...oh, and I think you might mean being on "jankers",
You are quiet correct TOB - it was late at night for an owd'un like me, and my keyboard is a german layout - no "qwerty" board here. Finger coordination not what it used to be.The other half like's me to be tucked up in bed by 21:00hrs nowadays having had a cup of the swiss Ovalmaltine to keep all my parts calm during the night. Blinking young female swiss doctor - my advise is never to go near one; they'll cost you a shed load of dosh and throw you into geriatric fatherhood
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Hi All,

Great to see so many people down in Clare street - really well organised. I was a bit late - turned up at about Midday - shame my ride was about 4 miles from Redland in Bristol, but in a weird way that was good as my tyres were a bit worn!
Enjoyed the whole event, thanks to the organiser's for all their sterling work.

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