Pistonfest- ideas for 07
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Well this will be my first 'official' post! Hello to all, I will be looking after PH in the future (working with Ted for the forseeable) and one of the first things i'm getting stuck into is PF07.
Dates are confirmed as 25th-28th May, Snetterton, Costa del Norfolk.
I'm keen to make this event as good as possible, and would really appreciate it if you could fire some suggestions on what we should do this year, i'm up for anything, er except free beer and guaranteed sunshine.
I'd appreciate any thoughts/ feedback so please fire stuff at me....
Love the hover tent BTW.
Ta
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Dates are confirmed as 25th-28th May, Snetterton, Costa del Norfolk.
I'm keen to make this event as good as possible, and would really appreciate it if you could fire some suggestions on what we should do this year, i'm up for anything, er except free beer and guaranteed sunshine.
I'd appreciate any thoughts/ feedback so please fire stuff at me....
Love the hover tent BTW.
Ta
G
Hi Garlick and welcome. PF is successful because of its simplicity. The format of a camping area where PHers can spend time chatting face to face with people they normally only converse with on line is the first 'must have'. A beer tent with sensibly priced beer would help too; to date the PF beer tents have been somewhat overpriced. Simple food, burgers, pies, etc. There also needs to be something petrolheadish going on but that's already sorted for '07. Trying too hard can spoil this event. People don't want any more than an opportunity to chat and make fools of themselves.
It would help if we could have a place to practice our donut skills but the landlords tend to deny this.
It would help if we could have a place to practice our donut skills but the landlords tend to deny this.
mmm might be able to make this as it doesnt clash ( currently) with my calendar although there is a BGT round at oulton where i might be working.... I'd go for the basics. providing a decent venue with reasonable quality resonably priced food drink. I take it this is the 2cv 24h again so motorsport already going on. track drives are nice if they can be arranged.
I'd try not to over organise things. when I went to mountain bike events things stared great and spontanious, but after a few years it all became regimented, with things like " the pond jumping will start in 10 mins" coming over the tanoy.... when it started it just happened when people got too hot
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Pistonfest 2006 was perfect as it was apart from the weather, and there isnt much one can do about that.
The band were just great, and I do hope you can get them again for this year,
maybe a smaller enclosure to bring everyone a bit closer, but thats a silly request really- just seemed a lot of people were a spreading out.
The band were just great, and I do hope you can get them again for this year,
maybe a smaller enclosure to bring everyone a bit closer, but thats a silly request really- just seemed a lot of people were a spreading out.
tvrbob said:
PF is successful because of its simplicity. The format of a camping area where PHers can spend time chatting face to face with people they normally only converse with on line is the first 'must have'. A beer tent with sensibly priced beer would help too; to date the PF beer tents have been somewhat overpriced. Simple food, burgers, pies, etc. There also needs to be something petrolheadish going on but that's already sorted for '07. Trying too hard can spoil this event. People don't want any more than an opportunity to chat and make fools of themselves.
Totally agree with you there.
I think this is one of the reasons there wasn;t a PF'05 as Ted went to so much extra effort for PF'04 over PF'03 and then everyone moaned that it was over-organised and over-commercial. In contrast last year was pretty much bang-on apart from the freezing cold weather.
The main requisites for a PF are
1) Loads of PHers (obviously)
2) Space to pitch your tent.
3) Some kind of assurance that some drunken knob isn't going to donut their car over your tent and kill you and your family (but not the kind of Ultimate Force security we had at PF'04).
4) Beer tent with reasonably priced beer
5) Decent toilets
6) Availability of hot food for when the gods of the BBQ accept your burnt offerings and you need to buy something to eat instead.
7) Band in the beer tent in the evening.
PF'06 had all of that, so more of the same for PF'07 is fine by me.
JonRB said:
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3) Some kind of assurance that some drunken knob isn't going to donut their car over your tent and kill you and your family (but not the kind of Ultimate Force security we had at PF'04).
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3) Some kind of assurance that some drunken knob isn't going to donut their car over your tent and kill you and your family (but not the kind of Ultimate Force security we had at PF'04).
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Ah yes the donutting incident and the second time being told we'd be evicted if it wasn't stopped
how close do you want them? it was only a 2 min walk if that to the toilet block......admitted, that was in the pi$$ing rain wind and cold Gassing Station | Events & Meetings | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff