Manky Monkey Motors

Hallo Folks.....just told about your site and I'm impressed at both the accurate write-ups and the scores of interesting pics of all the shows.  I organise the Popham Megameet and was delighted to see all the pics you posted of it.  Didn't have time to take pics myself.  Has any reader of this Forum got any suggestions that would improve the Popham Megameet?  Don't want to overorganise it as I'm told generally that folk like the casualness of it...if there's such a word.  I'll always listen to suggestions though.

Hello to you too and welcome. For me this year was the first time I'd been to the Megameet and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots to look at and such a huge veriety of bikes old and new, (ish). It was fantastic to see the old bikes still being used and by equaly aged people. Fantastic. My only input would be increase the size of the showing area. There were so many bikes all crammed in and it makes looking at them hard let alone taking photos, but you can never gage how many are going to show up. Otherwise a fantastic event and thank you for your hard work putting it on so people like us can see the wonderful machines that we would not otherwise see.  ;D

Hello n Welcome

You're right - the show arena was far too small.....we'll rectify that in 2009.  The date of the Megameet is Sunday 23rd August 2009 incidentally.  As you said, it was great to see all the old boys (of which I'm one) riding their old bikes to the Show.  Don't you think that bikers whatever age are  a special breed?  Easy to talk to.....I don't know what is it but they are a NICE bunch of people!!

welcome to the forum ;)

I've linked it to the calendar for next year. Thanks. When you have a flier for it then it can be added to the post in the events page.
Yes everyone was very friendly.  ;D

Of course we are!

Only suggestion I can give is move it closer to Somerset  ;D perhaps I will get there next year.

Oh and welcome.

"Dick. That's an interesting name". -Breathless Mahoney, (played by Madonna), in Dick Tracey :)

An honour to have you aboard Sir.
Great to be able to chat to the brains behind the show. We attend events up & down the country as regular punters & try to give a balanced, honest view of what we find. We're not journalists, just the paying public, so we rarely get to quiz the organisers. The information we give out is just what we've been able to glean from advertising fliers, word of mouth & the odd internet search.
I wouldn't have a clue how to begin organising a show. It all looks very easy when you pay your entry fee & wander in the gate, but I know it's nothing of the sort! Popham works very well -it's fun & informal. The organisation's enough to keep things ticking along nicely but loose enough not to be corporate & regimented. I've been to shows where it's frowned on to start your bike up once you've put it on display & you have to park within a specially marked out little box. We all love engines & grease & oil & grubbiness. We want to see the machines being ridden, tinkered with & shown off.
Popham's lucky in that it has that extra angle -it's a working airstrip with a whole other array of machinery for us petrolheads to ogle. Something different that most punters don't normally get to see close up. The biggest thrill of the show this year for me was catching the Hurricane's fly-past. I don't know much about aircraft but that really made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Beautiful. My only observation would be that I remember more vintage planes in previous years. A line up of bi-planes at one end of the field with several flying in & out during the day. As it's a classic bike event, maybe you could invite more classic planes? They certainly add to the whole "period" feel. We'll definitely be back next year. Who knows, we might even have a couple of our own projects finished by then!  :P