The National Association for Bikers with a Disability.
"You've been Nabbed - 12"
9th - 11th May. 2003.
Being ever a glutton for punishment, I once
again made a rather long-winded journey up to Melbourne, and the
York Dragway. I don't really like motorways, but at times
they can be a necessary evil. M6 --> M42 --> M1
--> M18 -->M62. Due to some last minute road works, a
slight diversion was needed, but it didn't take me long to find
the rally site. Oh dear, that approach road ain't got any
better, but there again, it ain't got much worse either.
Seeing as I was a day early, so to speak, there was no one
manning the gate - this didn't cause much of a problem, I paid
for my ticket later on, once I had set up camp.
I'd only been set up for a few minutes
before two trikes, complete with trailers arrived. Now
seeing as these trikes bore an Isle of Man registration, I
guessed, correctly it seems, that it must be Dexxie and Brian,
plus friends.
The next thing on the agenda was food -
luckily I just happened to have a large piece of steak lurking
about my person, which soon disappeared. So ended Thursday
night.
Saturday saw a few more familiar faces turn
up, namely the Bikersweb infamous "Chaos Crew"
Don't know who the Chaos Crew are ? Well click HERE
and find out.
As much as I tried, I just couldn't get
"into" this rally. I wandered around looking at
all the different styles of bike / trike - I even managed to grab
a few good quality tee shirts from the Buckle Mania stall, but
try as I did, I just couldn't "settle down". This
is no fault of NABD, it's just one of those things. Some
rallies you take to, some you don't. I decided the best
thing to do was head back towards home, swap the trike for the
bike, and take in a "local" rally for the Saturday
night.
Don't let me put you off doing the NABD
national rally - take a nose at what other folks said of
it. . . . stolen shamelessly from the Bikersweb
forum.
Thanks nabd For an excellent weekend, (my 1st rally of the season) too many blurred memories, so I must have enjoyed myself. Even the magical mystery tour (sorry diversion on the way there) was interesting.
Wot a weekend............ I had a fantastic time, good entertainment(shittin bricks,top band & that aussie comic was well funny),good food(dinky donuts),good drink(way too much!)Great company and that firestorm car,wot a laugh,tried to get a light but it burnt mi face off!!!!!! ;o) Roll on next years NABD and a big thankyou to all the guy n gals who put the rally on,big respect to ya for all your hard work and forsuch a deserving cause.....
Yes, totally excellent do. Mucho credit and thanks to the NABD crew for working their bits off and putting on (as ever) a damn fine show.
See what I mean ? A great
rally, but not my cup of tea - Still, there's always the Autumn
Nabdness to look forward to.
Cheers.
^..^
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