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This Sunday, the south coast will be swamped with bikes as the Brightona 2008 show comes to Madeira Drive, along Brighton seafront.
Last year's event was a great success - over £20,000 was raised for the Sussex Heart Charity, and the organisers are hoping to build on that figure with this years donation.
Brightona 2008 promises to be even bigger and better, with a full line-up of live music across two stages and at the nearby Concorde2, plenty of stalls and a bigger range of custom bikes on display.
All bikes, trikes and scooters are welcome. Entry is just £5 per bike including a pin and programme, free entry for the viewing public.
UKBike.com are proud to sponsor Brightona - we will be there on Sunday with our van next to Reader's Digest, come and say hello!
All the details can be found at www.brightona.net.
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Interesting, The Readers Digest will be in attendance. I always enjoy a read when at the dentist. Are they breaking out of their traditional core value stories and readership demographics and trying to attract a new niche sector of reader?
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| Hopefully, they'll be flogging those nifty little compilations of "abridged stories" (ie novels with all the interesting bits removed, for people whose attention doesn't extend to a whole book). Or perhaps it's research for a whole new set of their entertaining magazine medical articles, such as "I am Jack's tank-impacted plums", or "I am Jane's capacious and gravel-rashed a*se"...
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| PS: Quite annoying, isn't it, when every section of the forum gets spammed with the same thread. Makes it quite difficult to see what the last sensible conversation was. Especially since everyone gets a PM to tell them the same thing as well, anyway. I would have thought the entry in the "Rallies" section might've covered it perfectly well all on its own...
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To this Endem i must wholeheartedly agree! Pathetic waste of our time trying to find what we were reading and following.
Don't slide unless you mean too.Be sure, ride safe and enjoy 
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| Rebber, missed you at Brightona, how rammed was Madeira Drive then? Awesome. Hope you had a safe one back to MK. Tom old chap, I realise you've probably got guidelines you're acting under, but, every topic? Is it absolutely neccesary? Good to smark a burn or two with you also Endo, evidence of you're spray job please. Can we have a sticker count bet as well? Airbrush Andy where were you, did you make it? Mazz, Silverstone, don't wriggle out of it, it'll be a buzz especially for that sort of dough.
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| Always a pleasure, Hoov old chap - very good to see you again. Also a pleasure to met rebelman and Mazz - hope you gents all had safe trips back. A good day out, all in all, I thought - well done to the organisers, certainly deserved to make their target takings. For the benefit of anyone who wasn't there - who'd've thought there were that many Harleys in the country? And where are they all the rest of the year round? If I had one criticism of the day - and this is no fault of the event itself - it was when I stopped by to see my sister afterwards, which meant going into the town proper. During which time, particularly around the (needlessly) complicated Pavilion section, I bore witness to a goodly quantity of bikers riding like complete ****s. I don't normally object to bikes making (ahem) "reasonable forward progress", but there are times and places for it and frankly, those were not they. Carving up the regular traffic, undertaking, barging in, often en masse (and often without seeming to have a clue where they were actually going) does not - to me - seem like the best way to thank the citizenry of Brighton for their hospitality. It's only a couple of miles to the open road, lads, couldn't you have, er, cruised and posed for the extra few minutes rather than behaving like dicks? Bit dark for photos right now, but I'll get something organised. Stickers, now you're talking...! Ironically, having covered my Gixxer with decals so it'd stand out amongst a crowd of similar sports bikes, when I did go to find it (amongst a crowd of mainly completely different Harleys) I walked straight past without recognising it...bigger decals next time, perhaps...
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| Morning all. I hope everyone who went to Brightona had a great time, it was the perfect day for it. I'd like to apologise for my posting spree on Friday. Originally I was planning on sending a private message to all users but this function was out of action at the time. I've learnt my lesson and won't be flooding the forum again any time soon. My punishment is necking a whole tin of this stuff... 
All the best, Tom
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| Hi Tom - I see I wasn't the only one! Never mind - no harm done. The event sounds to have been a success, and made me more determined to get there next year. And by the way, I quite like Spam - in the form of fritters, especially.
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| Who could object, after such a gracious apology? Spam fritters, though...I've always thought they were a bit strange oop North...!
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