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Post by Gamma498 on Jan 9, 2013 23:20:32 GMT
Last year the man that thought up most of your fantastical creations, Sweary Bob, passed away. Since that day a few of us have been discussing how we could honour the man. Kyle has now arranged for us to have a stand at the Mallory Park 'Festival of 1000 Bikes'. We are trying to get together a collection of all the types of spondons going back through the years, from steel framed stuff through beam ally stuff and big tube ally frames. If you fancy it, please get in touch with what type of Spondon it is that you have. The festival takes place on July 13th/ 14th 2013 and our stand is going to combine with the lads in the streetspecials MCC. It will be a year to the day that we lost Bob, lets give him a tribute to remember. Info about the festival can be found on their website www.vmcc.net/1000bikes/ |
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Post by swearybob on Jan 15, 2013 10:45:47 GMT
Steve, I should be getting a pdf file of the event advert for you to put on the website and the FB page. I will forward it on when it arrives.
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Post by swearybob on Jan 15, 2013 10:51:12 GMT
Here's the poster for the Sweary Bob event.
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Post by swearybob on Jan 15, 2013 10:53:24 GMT
Sorry it's too large to post  See facebook page for details |
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Post by Gamma498 on Jan 16, 2013 8:56:01 GMT
here we go, I've re-sized it Attachments:
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Post by Fuknuckle on Jan 19, 2013 15:03:23 GMT
I will be there, my turbo race bike can go on the stand on the Sat if you want? will be taking out on track on sunday though  |
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Post by swearybob on Jan 19, 2013 17:43:57 GMT
More than welcome, be glad to meet you and have a chin wag.
Should be some beers sank on Saturday night so be careful on Sunday ;D
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Post by Gamma498 on Jan 21, 2013 10:56:36 GMT
I've emailed Gav from GIA to see if he fancies coming along and also invited him to sign up on here and post some pics of his stuff, hopefully he'll join us on both accounts.
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Post by Gamma498 on Jan 23, 2013 9:32:59 GMT
Martin Crooks that runs Crooks Suzuki in Barrow was telling me he used to have a 50cc race bike with a spondon chassis that he sold to a local guy years ago. He reckons the guy's still got it and may be up for bringing it to Mallory if we wanted it. He thinks it must be one of the earliest things that Spondon did, should I look into it?
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Post by swearybob on Jan 23, 2013 15:32:35 GMT
Sounds good Steve, even if we only get photos of it for the website that would be good.
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Post by Gamma498 on Jun 13, 2013 23:07:05 GMT
Right then boys, who is gonna bring their pride and joy along to Mallory for the event? If you can make it with your bike it would be much appreciated, we need to show people as many examples of Bob's genius as we can! If you can make it, please get in touch with either myself or Kyle ('Swearybob' on here).
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Post by Gamma498 on Jul 9, 2013 0:36:18 GMT
Well, it's nearly upon us, Friday will be here before you know it, is everybody ready? Mucho Thanks to Kyle for sorting all this out, he's done a brilliant job. I think the best plan of attack is for all those staying for the weekend to come to where the stand is going to be first, then we can try and sort out for us all to be put in the same area of the campsite, unless there is loads of room around where the stand is and we can set up there. Lesley, Bob's widow and Becky, Bob's daughter are both attending so lets try and make this a meeting to remember! See you all there!
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Post by swearybob on May 7, 2014 7:32:03 GMT
Well we can do it all again!!!
Mallory Park are holding a "Bike Bonanza" on the weekend of July 11-13th 2014.
I have a stand application form at last if you want to celebrate the great man again, get in touch on here or on our facebook page if you are a listed member.
This could be another great meet up for us Paupers and another chance to show off our unique Spondon Ownwers banner eh Steve.
Cheers lads,
Need to know numbers before 14th May!!!!
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Post by Gamma498 on May 7, 2014 11:09:34 GMT
are we keeping with that banner or should I get him to knock a new one up, once he's spellchecked it of course!
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Post by swearybob on May 11, 2014 18:55:49 GMT
A proper one would be great, but we'll never loose or live down the "Ownwers" banner.
Well it was the talking point of last years event after we noticed the spelling.
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