Pics from Nelson Bike Show 14.9.08

[shafty]

Twas a stunning day for bikes, bike riding and bike shows, so a great turn out was had, and plenty of nice machinery on display. Such a nice day, I took the long way from Nelson back to Tahuna - via St Arnaud/Kawatiri, discovered some 3.5 km long straights, which should be good for 200 klicks if closed off.

A tasty pint at the Belgrove Pub on the way home, life is good.........

[shafty]

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[portokiwi]

Nice pics mate. The CB750 realy brought the change to motorcycles.

[shafty]

I re fuelled at St Arnaud, adding $52 to the tank for a theoretical 499.9 km's from the last tankful

[shafty]

Nice pics mate. The CB750 realy brought the change to motorcycles.

Yeah, sure did - I had one the same colour (Starting to sound like an old codger!!) There were photo's next to this bike showing it as a ute fill of parts pre restoration.....

[sinfull]

Couldn't have picked a better weekend for it !
Shit its been a long while since i've ridden those roads down there, bloody shame we've had to cancell the munroe challenge for this year !

[shafty]

Cheers Sinfull,

Bert Munro's adopted Brother, JB Munro, was there giving some talks and sharing an early Roger Donaldson video featuring the 'real' Bert - he had a couple of great little stories about the man...........

...........apparently every day he rode his bike to work, then every night rode it to a dance. One weekend after riding home from a speed trial
, and in need of a gasket, he stopped in at a dance hall on the chance that someone there might have such a thing. He walked in to the hall foyer, saw a Gents felt hat hanging up, whipped the top off it, and put it back, and kept on riding!!.....

[Bonez]

Thanks for sharing Shafty. Some nice pics.

[98tls]

Great pics,cheers for sharing.

[Paulo]

Yes Thanks for posting these, I wanted to go but........

Beaut CB and Augusta !

[Wired1]

Well I went too and to tell the truth I was a little unimpressed. The day was perfect after all the bloody rain we have been having, and the place was packed - parking was at a premuim. I went to see the classics and vintage bikes and there weren't a lot to see - a sparse collection of british clunkers in the Granary and some interesting bikes in the octagonal building including a Maico with a TT500 motor that looked a treat. To be fair there were a lot of late model sports bikes, Ducatis and the like - and loads of Harleys but there were also Lifan-type rubbish and cheap scooters etc. There were bugger all dirt bikes and apart from that tasty XT500 parked outside the pub there weren't nearly enough thumpers on display. I will always go to every motorcycle show within driving distance but I was left thinking there must be a lot more bikes in Nelson that deserve to be shown. There were more bikes in the carpark than on display and some of them were interesting, still I can't wait until the Stoke hall bike show in January...