Gallery: Telford Classic Show packs ’em in again

And clearly a shed-load of you are as for two days the halls of the Telford International Exhibition Centre were packed wall to wall with enthusiasts.

And it was all there whatever your particular fancy – from rusty hulks and boxes of tired bits and pieces (one man's junk is another man's treasure etc) out (i.e. cold and sometimes wet) at the autojumble to shiny, better-than-new machines worth up to a reputed £20,000 (a CCM) in the welcome warmth and comfort of the indoor halls.

There were club stands and single marque stands and event series stands and stands featuring Spanish bikes and Japanese bikes and of course stands featuring British bikes. 

There were stands selling old new spares and stands selling new old spares and every kind of stand in between.

And each one was spilling over on to the one next door and nobody minded as in the organised chaos all were having a great time. 

So whether you were looking for a 2016 lightweight frame for your Bantam project (an easy one that, they were everywhere) or a rare, left-hand, twin-start, timing-side grommet-retaining clip clevis pin retaining bolt (all right, I didn't actually see one of those) for your Jap engine Grindley Peerless grass-track special (I didn't see one of those either) Telford was still the place to be.

As is compulsory – and so it should be – Sammy Miller was in the middle of things with a handful of hand-picked machines from his incomparable museum.

His stars of this year's show being the awesome 1939 AJS V4, water-cooled, supercharged grand prix racing machine and an equally knock-out Brough Superior 1000cc V-twin. 

Not off-road granted – but if you aren't impressed by amazing machines like these then you really should be!

Sam also brought along a rare MickMar trials model, a machine that was going to rival the dominant Spanish trials machines but needless to say, due to a variety of reasons, never made it to series production.

The machine was actually on display on the stand dedicated to Alan Wright's trials career. 

Wrighty is known to many these days as a retailer of all things trials – not to mention the originator of the Telford Show –  but was a top trials rider in his day and the tribute, with a collection of machines as ridden by him, was more than interesting. Trials and motocross is still a bit like mixing football and rugby and is always a balancing act but there was more than plenty for both sets of enthusiasts and if you are into both then it's a bonus!

On stage the ever- enthusiastic Tim Britton was interviewing this year's special guests who included Nick Jefferies, Bill Brown, Eric Boocock and the inimitable speedway legend Barry Briggs. 

Briggo has a fund of stories and you can only scratch the surface if you listened to him for hours.

What's better in the middle of a miserable wet winter than to be able to wander round in the dry taking in scores of interesting bikes, whether sad old rust-buckets or dazzling mint condition newbuilds, spotting the odd bargain, and stopping to talk every couple of yards (definitely yards, not metres) to anyone and everyone?

That's Telford...