Uncertainty of the future of BBWF...
Discussion
Hi Peeps..Well with all the last minute cancellations and people dropping out it has started to make me wonder about the future of the BBWF...And ultimately Wedges.
I obviously enjoy organising it and will always try to make it a good event while I'm running it.
Next year there is no room at the Inn so BBWF 2016 will NOT be at Ettington....I do have a plan but it will see a change in the way the Wedgefest is heading..I would never try to take the original DNA from it by turning it into a public funfair ..Or a multi-model event...Although ALL models of TVR's are always welcome...Lets be clear on this...I for one have some really good friends who drive other models of TVR..
The main issue with any of these types of events is and always will be "Commitment"...We all have such different lives even though we share a likeness in something..It is for many a very tiny part inside of a much bigger machine..However the machine will not run without it.
I will try to create a slightly different approach to the BBWF 2016, It will be exclusive...It will involve eating..Socialising..Laughing..Relaxing but have plenty of driving as it is about cars..
I would also like to see it evolve into something that shouldn't be missed...But thats being ambitious.
If all fails next year then i will sadly hand in the old BBWF towel to whom ever wishes to take it off of me....Be a shame but as Bob sang...
.."The times they are a changing"
Uncertainty wains.....Cheers...Ziga
I obviously enjoy organising it and will always try to make it a good event while I'm running it.
Next year there is no room at the Inn so BBWF 2016 will NOT be at Ettington....I do have a plan but it will see a change in the way the Wedgefest is heading..I would never try to take the original DNA from it by turning it into a public funfair ..Or a multi-model event...Although ALL models of TVR's are always welcome...Lets be clear on this...I for one have some really good friends who drive other models of TVR..
The main issue with any of these types of events is and always will be "Commitment"...We all have such different lives even though we share a likeness in something..It is for many a very tiny part inside of a much bigger machine..However the machine will not run without it.
I will try to create a slightly different approach to the BBWF 2016, It will be exclusive...It will involve eating..Socialising..Laughing..Relaxing but have plenty of driving as it is about cars..
I would also like to see it evolve into something that shouldn't be missed...But thats being ambitious.
If all fails next year then i will sadly hand in the old BBWF towel to whom ever wishes to take it off of me....Be a shame but as Bob sang...
.."The times they are a changing"Uncertainty wains.....Cheers...Ziga
There does seem to be a bit of apathy this year but people do have lives to live, families to entertain and books to balance.
For me a day at the Fest runs to £100 in fuel, say £50 for a room and £50+ for food and beer... that's a big chunk of what I spend on a 5-day bike trip to the Alps... and the roads are a sight more entertaining than those between Teesside and Stratford.
You could plan a road trip but you'd struggle to find many takers to do hundreds of miles in a car that averages under 20 to the gallon - and then you'd have as many opinions on what constitutes good driving roads. I know there's the Rusty Nail Run but the participants don't exactly fill an entire hotel.
There are any number of 'classic' car runs to France for wine, cheese and battlefields but I haven't heard of many people doing them in a Wedge. I suspect Wedges are mostly Sunday fun cars, the 4-wheel equivalent of a motorcycle taken out early for a spirited run before the shopping masses wake up - I know I don't find mine all that much fun just to drive around town looking cool and dodging the VW/Peugeot racing brigade.
Nursy and I were out last night (as rain was forecast for this morning), three hours of the Yorkshire Moors and Dales with hardly anything on the road (most folk want to be in the pub or in front of the telly on a Saturday night which worked in our favour
) - even that was £30 of fuel evaporated. Some fantastic roads up here but with another 300-400 mile round trip for those in the south to access them it'd be an expensive tour.
For me a day at the Fest runs to £100 in fuel, say £50 for a room and £50+ for food and beer... that's a big chunk of what I spend on a 5-day bike trip to the Alps... and the roads are a sight more entertaining than those between Teesside and Stratford.
You could plan a road trip but you'd struggle to find many takers to do hundreds of miles in a car that averages under 20 to the gallon - and then you'd have as many opinions on what constitutes good driving roads. I know there's the Rusty Nail Run but the participants don't exactly fill an entire hotel.
There are any number of 'classic' car runs to France for wine, cheese and battlefields but I haven't heard of many people doing them in a Wedge. I suspect Wedges are mostly Sunday fun cars, the 4-wheel equivalent of a motorcycle taken out early for a spirited run before the shopping masses wake up - I know I don't find mine all that much fun just to drive around town looking cool and dodging the VW/Peugeot racing brigade.
Nursy and I were out last night (as rain was forecast for this morning), three hours of the Yorkshire Moors and Dales with hardly anything on the road (most folk want to be in the pub or in front of the telly on a Saturday night which worked in our favour
) - even that was £30 of fuel evaporated. Some fantastic roads up here but with another 300-400 mile round trip for those in the south to access them it'd be an expensive tour.I am gutted that I cant make it this year, a combo of my own health problems and my mil's terminal illness has made it impossible for me this year, I was still thinking I might be able to get to come down on the day but it is just nor possible 
Whatever wedgefest turns out to be next year it is going to be the first date in my diary, I am bloody desperate to get there in a working wedge.
Whatever wedgefest turns out to be next year it is going to be the first date in my diary, I am bloody desperate to get there in a working wedge.
Don't get me wrong I'm not doom and glooming just being realistic...However I'm hoping that i will be pleasantly surprised this year as i have a feeling its going to be a good turn-out..
I know it can be expensive for some...Even me...Im on b
ks all income and I'm trying to kickstart a new career at 53..perhaps its just a mid-life crisis and my liking of leather has become sadistically obsessive..Brought about by the constant fondling of the families ancient heirloom of Psoriasis the great...He was the first descendant of domesticated cat...He was called this due to his constant scratching although the skin complaint hadn't yet been discovered...Strange...Anyhow i do try to keep the cost down and if you were to compare the fest last year to the year before then you should of seen a £30-40 saving...It wasn't much but we did actually do more for less...Which was nice...If the government can honour its citizen's and put the price of fuel down to what it should be and not keep creeping it up even when the price of a barrel of oil goes down then we could possibly see people wanting to travel further..
I think i was panicking a little as it seemed that everything was starting to go tit shaped at the last minute..Which actually is not that bad a shape...
I know it can be expensive for some...Even me...Im on b
ks all income and I'm trying to kickstart a new career at 53..perhaps its just a mid-life crisis and my liking of leather has become sadistically obsessive..Brought about by the constant fondling of the families ancient heirloom of Psoriasis the great...He was the first descendant of domesticated cat...He was called this due to his constant scratching although the skin complaint hadn't yet been discovered...Strange...Anyhow i do try to keep the cost down and if you were to compare the fest last year to the year before then you should of seen a £30-40 saving...It wasn't much but we did actually do more for less...Which was nice...If the government can honour its citizen's and put the price of fuel down to what it should be and not keep creeping it up even when the price of a barrel of oil goes down then we could possibly see people wanting to travel further..I think i was panicking a little as it seemed that everything was starting to go tit shaped at the last minute..Which actually is not that bad a shape...
adam quantrill said:
+3!
+4.This will be my 3rd visit, first in 2010 without a wedge just looking.
Stratford is a place me and the wife like to visit regular so we just incorporate the BBWF into a weekend visit which softens the blow of the cost - or increases it, however if the fest was to change I would still be up for it but I have the feeling if the weather is as forecast, then we should have a busy weekend, especially on the Sat.
This is a shame Mr Ziga if the wedge fest was to end, shame more are not goingm i can remember when there was 120 plus cars.
I would have thought linked in with the griff lot it should make it a good do but it would be nice if it came up further north like it did to blackpool in 2009, that was a good fest.
I know know a little of what work you have to put into the fest as its my turn for the Rusty Nail and im upto 30 plus cars 60 plus people, 2 full runs over the weekend, lunches and dinner and speeches and poeple over 3 hotels.
Im sure this fest will be great and what you come up with next will be good.
Cambelt
I would have thought linked in with the griff lot it should make it a good do but it would be nice if it came up further north like it did to blackpool in 2009, that was a good fest.
I know know a little of what work you have to put into the fest as its my turn for the Rusty Nail and im upto 30 plus cars 60 plus people, 2 full runs over the weekend, lunches and dinner and speeches and poeple over 3 hotels.
Im sure this fest will be great and what you come up with next will be good.
Cambelt
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