WHERE?
Vic's pub, Coalville (google map).
WHEN?
5 April 2009, from Midday onwards
WHAT?
This was from 2004:
I know this is nothing to do with R1150R.net, but the reasons for meeting up with forum (community) members each year are still good and I hope that some R1150 nuts might want to make it.The Memorial Rideout was started as a gathering of VDers to remember Storm - who died in 2001 (please let me get that date right! ).
At the time of his death and funeral (which some of us attended), many people on the forum stated that they were sorry to have not met him in person because those who had met him couldn't stop saying what a great guy he was.
So we set up the Memorial meet to do two things:
1) To remember Storm, and SteveS (who also died that year), and last year we remembered more VDers who we had lost.
2) To gather as many people together as possible - so that VDers COULD meet with each other in person. Everybody had the chance to meet with people they wouldn't otherwise have had an opportunity to meet.
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People making their way to the Memorial Meet gather in the corners of the country to make their way to Castle Donington and it's a good system, and at least you don't have to meet 100 VDers at once!!
The last two Memorial Meets have been great successes ..., and lots of friendships have been made or online associations re-inforced and strengthened. I think we had 70+ the first year and around the same figure this year.
The 2004 Memorial Meet will hopefully be even bigger, and (with any luck / sense) will be a great day out for everyone with no mishaps. I look forward to meeting all the friends I've met on this day and others and meeting lots of new friends who have joined us since the last meet.
For me, friends are still the most important thing, and re-inforcing friendships is something I enjoy. I think that it doesn't matter what forum you're on - if you get on with someone then you're friends regardless.I organise this meet every year, (tbh, it's not much, a large pub car park and as many people as want to arrive and meet the face behind the name), and would love to meet up with some of you guys as well as meet friends I've made from other forums over the years.
) We started it after we lost Storm from Visordown and a lot of people expressed regret at never having had the chance to meet him - the Mem Meet is that chance for anyone willing.