HOGGIN it in Ireland

[lawnmower]

well i thought you should all know i had a great time. Rally was decidely average but the scenery was excellent. did a couple of long rides around the ring of Kerry (would like to meet her though) and a bit further south the name of which escapes me. The roads were certainly interesting and we did a bit of Goat trekking over the mountains. Bands were Suzi Quatro who i heard was quite good, Roy Wood, Quite good, a few cover bands, The Commitments who were good. And Bonnie Tyler, i'll stop there. Beer (no Stella though) and accomodation although of a good quality was expensive unless you booked direct with the tourist board. Everyone got a nice White T-Shirt (YES WHITE) the locals were all very friendly. Met quite a few from the Riders club including a Forester (Mark i think), Graham from Wyvern, Steve Marples and Co from Region 11. All in all a good few days away and excellent weather. Sorry Baz no photo's though.

So i can recommend going to Ireland for a ride around. HOG rally well you pays your money and you take your choice. There were 10,000 tickets which were sold out at £50 per head members and £65 non members, although a lady from the tourist board reckoned there were about 15k HD's in Ireland for the weekend. mmm half a million quid would put on a very serious rally. Sadly a couple of Polish guys were killed in a head on smash on their way home by a drunken joyrider which always takes the shine off these things but yes i would do it again but only somewhere i really wanted to go and maybe not pay the rally fee just be somewhere local to it.

Rally Report over.

[Simon_A]

Nice one Mark, looks like we are going to miss you by a week We're off to Ireland in the morning for the lesser HDC event, which I'm sure will be equal to the Hog event

[lawnmower]

Simon get down by Killarney riding is ace and the food was good too i know you'll enjoy