STAFFS SHOW STOPPER
By Team TMX on 28th Oct 15
THE annual autumn Carole Nash Classic Mechanics Motorcycle Show was staged at Staffordshire County Showground the weekend before last.
And once again it attracted huge crowds who travelled to see the vast array of classic machinery on display encompassing all corners of motorcycling – including off-road!
And while the massed ranks of show-prepped road bikes with their acres of shiny chrome and gleaming gloss paint vie for the top awards and historic classic racers are cracked into life in the outside race paddock, there's always plenty for off-road fans to winkle out and enjoy.
There's the specialist off-road hall to start with, where The Old Codgers club take a central role and use it as a base for their popular Classic Trials demos out on the grassy banks.
Inside the hall there are always some interesting old trials and scrambles bikes with Bantams, Cubs and Ariels rubbing shoulders with Bultacos, Montesas, Suzukis and Hondas and more rare models from the likes of Merlin, Mecatecno, Cotton, Sprite, etc as well as trials and motocross outfits, the big 1980s Wasp outfits, with their mighty 920 Norton four-stroke twin cylinder engines – always worth a look.
Outside there is one massive autojumble which covers acres of ground and again there's off-road stuff to be found – although some of the price tags attached to worn-out rust buckets are optimistic in the extreme.
But half the fun of a jumble is the bargaining and as they say, one man's rubbish is another man's treasure...
