AE08 - The Event of Next Year, Can you help ?

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AE08 - The Event of Next Year Can you help ?

Despite the best efforts of the weather this year, AE07 was a huge success, thanks to those that organised and those that turned up. We're looking to build on this years successful weekend with a view to planning something along similar lines next year.

What we're looking for is for somebody to step up and help out with or indeed organise next years AE. What we're looking for :

• A Central Base for the weekend with camping and facilities, showers, toilets etc etc.
• Somewhere to cook BBQ or somewhere to get food, including breakfast in the morning.
• A rideout route that shouldn’t be to challenging that caters for all levels of rider in the region of 120 or so miles with a lunchstop and fuel stop / snack / stops.
• Somewhere to get drink from or someway of doing a beer run if theres no bar on site.
• A Central Hub area for Socialising, having a drink or two, a chat about the day you know the kind of thing, think about what was provided this year.

Try to take account of where previous years have been and it would be good I think to not re-visit if possible a previously visited area. This also means that the people who organised / helped out with this years get a break from organising.

This is where Previous AR / AE's have been held

2007 - Lake District
2006 - Shewsbury
2005 - Cotswolds
2004 - Cat n fiddle (Buxton)
2003 - Boxhill, south england
2002 - Ponderosa

We've had one proposal from Viper already, which I'm sure some of you already might be aware of as this was dicussed at this years event.

We'll leave this thread open till End of October and then look at whats been suggested if theres only one option then that’s the option that'll be picked, if theres more than one we'll create a poll and then everybody can vote for the Venue that they like the best*

Inevitably this also may mean that for some people a fair old amount of travel is going to be required. But after the effort made this year to get to the Lakes in the rain the likes of Grinch made then I don’t really see this as being that much of an issue if you're determined enough with enough notice anything is achievable.

Remember where looking for a Somebody with extensive local knowledge of their proposed area to propose a Package, Location, Venue, Facilities, Rideout Route. Don’t just say "I'd think we should go to South Wales" as then that means that we've then go to approach those with local knowledge for help, if they can't help out it relies on us Mods / Admis then to reccie and look for places to stay in places we're not familiar with. Which means a lot of extra headaches. Its going to be much easier and more straight forward if we can plump for an area where somebody is already willing and commited to help out with the organising.

Once the Venue is sorted then we'll start looking at dates, the general plan would be to stay away from School Holidays, Silverstone F1 Weekend, Donnington Moto GP Weekend also BSB / WSB events that might clash and reduce numbers. Inevitably this may mean that some people can't make the weekend, but I'm confident that if the date is set far enough in advance then most people should be able to sort out holiday dates etc etc.

You guys make the forum, its your weekend, the more we all put into it, the more we all get from it. So if you can help or have some ideas or know of a venue that would suit and are willing to step up, post up your ideas, don’t go to much effort just a rough outline of what you're proposing and a rough idea of what costs are involved ( if any )

*Caveat The final decision might not be the Venue that has the most votes, if for logistical reasons another venue proves to be easier to organise etc etc.

Please if possible can we keep this thread free of chit chat as I don’t want to have to wade through 30 odd pages of chat to find the Gems buried within.

Over to you

Cheers

Fizz

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My suggestion - North East/Northumberland
Location - absolutely beautiful part of England that nobody know about- very different to anywhere else that the AR have been to. Easy to get to on M1 - I drive from Kent the whole time. And perhaps about time a AR that the ecosse posse can get to easily.
Roads - empty, relatively camera free and in the best roads in Britain book referred to every road there being worthy of being in! We haven't suffered from all the bonkers leglislation you guys have down there. I'd be willing to draw up a few days of routes Theres so many interesting places enroute, castles, Islands, more castles...
Accomodation - loads of cheap camping and B&Bs, would be easy to book a large field. (i could expand on this if necessary)

Bearing in mind the north meets south will be down south next year (i presume as it's their turn), I think a Northern AR would suit EDIT: - ok that's wrong! i just seem to recall that people fancied a reverse. I may have imagined it hehe

Right then...
As Fizz has said i have suggested the following.

A weekend camping on our farm in somerset. This is my idea........

We have a 400 acre farm in Bruton / Wincaton area in Somerset. We also have a Farm shop etc.
We would be able to offer FREE camping for all attending. We would also be prepared to put up toilets and showers and a marquee, in which we would be able to offer hot food and drinks on site, such as a Hog Roast, Tea, Coffee, Burgers, Hot Dogs, Jacket spuds and for breakfast Sausage, egg, bacon, toast etc.
The plan is tio try and keep everybody together "on site" as much as possible. AR07 was fantastic but i reckon if we had hot food on site we could have stayed on site and got to know each other more.
Fizz and myself have spoken about routes for rideouts and we have some fantastic roads around here that i am sure would suit all abilities.

I thought we could all Pre Book and charge a fixed fee for the weekend to include all food. I reckon £30 (ish) per person all in should cover it. For this we could provide Friday Evening Meal, Saturday Brekkie, Saturday Night meal and Sunday Morning Brekkie so thats 4 meals and camping all for £30 ish each.

What are your thoughts ??????????

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

Bearing in mind the north meets south will be down south next year (i presume as it's their turn), I think a Northern AR would suit

North meets South is a chance for us Southerners to ride the wonderful roads of the North. It don't happen down here.....
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Originally Posted by Viper

Right then...
As Fizz has said i have suggested the following.

A weekend camping on our farm in somerset. This is my idea........

We have a 400 acre farm in somerset. We also have a Farm shop etc.
We would be able to offer FREE camping for all attending. We would also be prepared to put up toilets and showers and a marquee, in which we would be able to offer hot food and drinks on site, such as a Hog Roast, Tea, Coffee, Burgers, Hot Dogs, Jacket spuds and for breakfast Sausage, egg, bacon, toast etc.
The plan is tio try and keep everybody together "on site" as much as possible. AR07 was fantastic but i reckon if we had hot food on site we could have stayed on site and got to know each other more.
Fizz and myself have spoken about routes for rideouts and we have some fantastic roads around here that i am sure would suit all abilities.

I thought we could all Pre Book and charge a fixed fee for the weekend to include all food. I reckon £30 (ish) per person all in should cover it. For this we could provide Friday Evening Meal, Saturday Brekkie, Saturday Night meal and Sunday Morning Brekkie so thats 4 meals and camping all for £30 ish each.

What are your thoughts ??????????

What he said

Originally Posted by stewie

What he said

Same here!!

I like Vipers idea very much so, if Fizz can include that wonderful coastal route he does sometimes

Things will be a lot quieter for us next year so if i can help in anyway i will.

Yer i'm with Viper on it all Food on site mmmmmmmmm

Originally Posted by Viper

Right then...
As Fizz has said i have suggested the following.

A weekend camping on our farm in somerset. This is my idea........

We have a 400 acre farm in somerset. We also have a Farm shop etc.
We would be able to offer FREE camping for all attending. We would also be prepared to put up toilets and showers and a marquee, in which we would be able to offer hot food and drinks on site, such as a Hog Roast, Tea, Coffee, Burgers, Hot Dogs, Jacket spuds and for breakfast Sausage, egg, bacon, toast etc.
The plan is tio try and keep everybody together "on site" as much as possible. AR07 was fantastic but i reckon if we had hot food on site we could have stayed on site and got to know each other more.
Fizz and myself have spoken about routes for rideouts and we have some fantastic roads around here that i am sure would suit all abilities.

I thought we could all Pre Book and charge a fixed fee for the weekend to include all food. I reckon £30 (ish) per person all in should cover it. For this we could provide Friday Evening Meal, Saturday Brekkie, Saturday Night meal and Sunday Morning Brekkie so thats 4 meals and camping all for £30 ish each.

What are your thoughts ??????????

Actually, I think that's a bloody fantastic idea. Certainly gets my vote at present

could suggest what the Taffia/MoFo lot are doing in early august, route is about 160 miles, two campsites next to a lake... wonderful roads... will comment after the weekend happens though!