FIREBLADE FESTIVAL

In this weeks mcn 10th-11th july at Farham honda with just one of four all carbon blades will be there plus riders hutchy ,mcguinness, brookes,and dave hancock who was a part of the original early 90s development team and blade experts with advice on tuning and suspension.

Just been there today and was talking to the guys.

There are going to be a couple of one off Blades that they will be showing off as well.

Will be well worth going to if you can make it.

They will also have 8 blades that are available for test rides over the weekend as well

Link to event as below

http://www.farnhamhonda.co.uk/events.html

Not to far away from my place as well so anyone is more than welcome to come round for a cuppa before or afterwards

Cheers

Steve

looks good, 94miles from bristol, around 45mins? all being well i should be there on the saturday

ok will let you know mid week what time you leaving etc

Might pop in myself on the way to the Midlands but I won't be on my RR-P unfortunately. May have to get there early if I do go.

I saw the carbon Blade last week when I did an all day ride out with some peeps. I prefer it with the black wheels and frame as opposed to silver frame and gold wheels. I thought 50 carbon blades were being made in total?

They have got the carbon blades with black frames and wheels as well.
They look ok but must be a bugger to keep clean.

I saw the carbon black version at the festival of speed last week, and it looked fantastic! I will be going on saturday morning......

what time mike ? are you near bognor ?

This venue is over the weekend Scotty80 Chimpy and self were planning on Saturday around 11 am. If this is not convenient perhaps a Sunday meet this needs to be confirmed by all of us so we can all meet up once again. Those who wish to have a test ride on the demo blades have to pre-book I for one will have a go as long as they dont ask for my debit card like some of the other dealerships.

masterblader wrote:This venue is over the weekend Scotty80 Chimpy and self were planning on Saturday around 11 am. If this is not convenient perhaps a Sunday meet this needs to be confirmed by all of us so we can all meet up once again. Those who wish to have a test ride on the demo blades have to pre-book I for one will have a go as long as they dont ask for my debit card like some of the other dealerships.

I'm on a bit of a tight budget over the next couple of weeks as i have my holiday booked, i'll give you a call tomorrow MB once i've checked my finances and may well take a trip down with you.

wild bill wrote:I'm on a bit of a tight budget over the next couple of weeks as i have my holiday booked, i'll give you a call tomorrow MB once i've checked my finances and may well take a trip down with you.

Fingers crossed for you, Harley an opportunity to be missed

fastbikefinder wrote:Fingers crossed for you, Harley an opportunity to be missed

Cabbie's i right coont for grassing me up about that old chestnut, no matter what i say i'll never be able to wriggle out of this one

Have booked in for a demo ride on Saturday at 12noon.
Despite me informing Heston of Farnham Honda that several FBR members will turn up the bulk book was turned down, each rider has to phone and confirm status. Down side is that I will be acccompanied with their rider. Borrocks.

wild bill wrote:

fastbikefinder wrote:Fingers crossed for you, Harley an opportunity to be missed

Cabbie's i right coont for grassing me up about that old chestnut, no matter what i say i'll never be able to wriggle out of this one

Don't worry Bill, I don't think your blade heritage will give you a soft tale

fastbikefinder wrote:Don't worry Bill, I don't think your blade heritage will give you a soft tale

Ok... Just for the record, I'm not getting one yet

Might see some of you there:

My itinary for Saturday is:


1.Little Chef Flimwell @ 8am



2. H’s / Kent Motorcycles, Dover Road (A2), Barham, Canterbury, Kent CT4 6SA



3. Farnham Honda, 9a Farnham Trading Estate, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 9NN



4. Fox’s Diner, Oxford Road, Dorchester On Thames, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 7LY



5. The Tally Ho!, Bell Lane, Broadheath, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, WR15 8QX



6. Raven Café, Prees Heath, Whitchurch, SY13 2AF

will be there 10.30ish.

The gorgeous day was put to good use for the Fireblade Festival.
Messrs Kiwiboy and his mate Colin, DJ1, Ho-Ho, Scotty80, Patchmania Self with mates Al and Mark made it there around 11ish, no sign of Wes or Mike RR. Quite a large turn out with a good selction of restored and current models. John McGuiness, Stuart Easton and Dave Hancock were on hand and went in with all guns blazing when I spoke to Dave Hancock despite booking for a demo ride I was asked for my debit card for the excess of £2000. So I took the tea trolley for a spin, that was a friggin sham particularly when I spoke to Heston about this debit farce he said there wont be any problems. Spoke to Dave again about charging failures on all the generations of blades like a politician never got the acknowledgment or a conclusive answer.
Around 2ish it was off to Kiwis place for some refreshments and view his damaged bike . Here are some pics
[IMG]https://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s350/masterblader_cbr




/s350/masterblader_cbr/FarnhamHonda011

It's no wonder John Mac couldn't make bladeday at the Ace - he was asked.

Had a good day just some pics of the day

scotty80 wrote:Had a good day just some pics of the day

That is fascinating, Wicked pictures Scotty

scotty80 wrote:Had a good day just some pics of the day

That one is pure evil, love it.

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Would have loved it more if it was real cf insted of viynl

scotty80 wrote:





Would have loved it more if it was real cf insted of viynl

Ahh, yeah know the stuff you mean, that's the 3m vinyl, it's pretty expensive but far superior to the run of the mill printed carbon fibre. Still not real though.

Sorry I missed you all. My ride out in the morning didn't finish until well after 11:00am!

Great bikes!

Don't know if these are any member on this forum's bikes, there were loads of bikes there :

Looks like it was a good day, shame we don't get anything like that out here in the stix.