Crackin’ Night Chief…

The Guy Martin night here at Streetbike was an absolute blinder. Easily our busiest night event ever.

Our "door clicker" recorded 892 people but people were coming in through a second door which we didn't clock for over an hour. Some people stayed outside, away from the crowds. We're claiming a 1000 people thru the premises. It was mental for most of the night.

The police came twice. (Always a good sign). No problems at all.
Most of ‘em just wanted a photo with Guy!

We had bikes and cars parking over the road on the shops and on the pub car park.

Our live band was a top bunch of 13 year old kids from Henley Academy called "The Unknown”. This was their first proper gig, which Guy thought was ace. They rocked.



We had Mike playing his organ for MacMillan Cancer Research in between the band sets.
The full on "Phoenix Nights” effect. Awesome.

The event, with all your help, raised £1800 for our causes. (Macmillan and a local
appeal for a lad in the trade who had a bad "off" a couple of months ago). We feel
we could have raised more. We will address that next time. We will also be looking
at a new P.A system. Some people couldn't hear at the back. Mind you, we've not
had to deal with those sorts of numbers before and we didn't have much time for
rattling buckets.

And the man himself?

Mr Guy Martin was a total and utter star .......once we got him out the workshop :-))


He chatted, drank tea, signed autographs, drew the raffles and posed for hundreds
of photos with customers all night. He worked his absolute rocks off and didn't leave
until nearly 1.00am!!! After he had handed over the keys to new owners of 61 plate
bikes. Something they'll never forget. He, like the rest of us, looked absolutely
kn***ered at the end of it and he had a truck to MOT the next morning!!

We would like to thank everybody who supported the event. Thanks very much. We
never take it for granted. We're always grateful : -

Charlotte, Jonathan Martin from Suzuki GB and Mark Mc Carville @ TAS Racing for
arranging Guys attendance. You made a difference. Thanks.

For giving us raffle prizes...

Dave Mathers – Fowlers
Ade & Ade from Midwest
Steve Clifford – Feridax
Swampy - Oxford Products
Planet Knox
Toby from Nevis
Terry From Moto Direct

And also those Trade people who attended...

Paul De Lusignan, Tom Tanaguchi & Dan Lynch from Suzuki GB.
Steve Kenward from the MCIA .
From R & G - Alan Garrett
From Oxford Products - Swampy & Dean Spiller.
Kevin from Pro Bolt.

Thanks for your support. Hope you enjoyed the night.

And, in particular, thanks to all the Streetbike bods - who worked their
absolute nuts off on the night and the weeks running up to it.



Here's to the next one.....Rossi next anybody???

More pics on our Facebook page and our Flickr site.


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