Stafford Show 2014 18th 19th October

[Paul Whitehouse]

Tickets and passes have just arrived....Stafford here we come
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[chrisu]

what time do we need to be there on the friday to set up ?

[Ginger Bear]

Set up is from 11.00am, although we're getting pretty slick now.

A couple of things to note are new rules issued this year.

1. All bikes on show must have no more than a litre of fuel.

2. All bikes on show must have batteries disconnected.

3. All electrical equipment used on stands must be PAT tested & certified.

4. Each stand must have a fire extinguisher ......... in case all of the above fails I suppose.

[ted1r]

Full tank for a Z1r then

Ted

[Hobbo]

Not long now tickets arrived today ye ha


phil

[KeithZ1R]

+1

[chrisu]

Set up is from 11.00am, although we're getting pretty slick now.

A couple of things to note are new rules issued this year.

1. All bikes on show must have no more than a litre of fuel.

2. All bikes on show must have batteries disconnected.

3. All electrical equipment used on stands must be PAT tested & certified.

4. Each stand must have a fire extinguisher ......... in case all of the above fails I suppose.

i suspect it'll be mid afternoon by the time i get there.

[Ginger Bear]

That's fine Chris, no need to 'bust a gut', there's always plenty of help & to be honest not much will happen until after lunch anyway.

[Bill Newman]

Check out 2.50 to 3.05 on this years promo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ia9XvUKxMY#t=253

[KeithZ1R]

Composing my letter of complaint as we speak

[andyb1962]

Composing my letter of complaint as we speak

Yes i was wondering bout that
How do you safely dispose of fuel down to 1 litre assuming you've rode in and fuelled up to get down there surely if you allow 1 litre that's pretty flammable enough
Again disconnecting battery ( some people have alarms on them needing power)
Surely a proper and safe risk assememt should be carried out . Why have they never caught fire before ??
How many of these ( well maintained ) bikes catch fire
I say well maintained as they are it's show standard bikes we are talking here
Mostly very cosseted machines
Why are they more likely to catch fire at Stafford than in a garage??
All these regs are typical of modern beaurocracy gone mad
Some bloody power mad do gooder on a committee who likes to hear the sound of his own voice

Just sayin

[ade woollams]

maybe they have
no insurance

[andyb1962]

maybe they have
no insurance

Now that would be more worrying if I was showing ?

[ted1r]

Tanks of fuel are more likely to explode when they are nearly empty as against full as its the congregation of vapours that ignite first not the fuel ,and having loose battery wires that mat spark .whose idea was this .


Ted

[BykerBoy]

The 1 litre of fuel and batteries disconnected rules were there for last year as well but we all either didn't notice or ignored it. The organisers simply don't have the resources to check or enforce these so my guess would be they are covering their back with the insurers.
Fire extinguisher on every stand is probably in reality a very good idea that will not cost a lot to implement.