The Stafford Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show is fast approaching and I realised I hadn't given an MBX update!
As previously posted this year my MBX80 will form part of the Retro Mopeds Club stand and my time and energy has been split between the Retro stand and also completing my Aprilia build which will be on display in the Retro Hall.
There is not much to report on MBX updates for the show, apart from it will be clean and shiny and I am immensely proud of it ;-)
Firstly the Retro Mopeds stand. This Facebook group has been going for a few years now and is for all makes and models between 50 and 99cc, my friend and fellow enthusiast Andrew Longley got full control of this last year and asked me to come on board as an admin to help steer it. I still run the facebook groups Honda Classic 2 Strokes and Honda MBX80 as well as the new page Aprilia AF1 and Andrew runs a few additional pages as well, I like to think it's our Classic Facebook multi verse and maybe we can find away of connecting the pages under an umbrella club, but maybe that's for another day and a few beers...
Starting a facebook group is one thing but making a club stand is a whole another ball game, we have a blank space and zero assets, apart from motorbikes to fill it.
My first port of call was a backdrop, I didn't want to look through bikes to see blank wall or worse still a couple of small banners looking lost, the second problem is how to hold it up. Fortunately I have some expo stuff I could borrow from work, this is a pop up wall which I can add spot lights to the top. For the pop up wall I created a collage of bikes with a big stand out logo and clear call to action to join the FB club. It should look like this....
Next I wanted a table which needed a branded table cloth, Temu had that covered. Andrew also made some op up elements which he used with great effect at the Oh so Retro show.
Lastly I will make a small stage area to give a bike a little height on the booth to give it some additional depth.
This is year one, it may work it may not but you don't know until you try. Please come and visit the stand, we do have stickers and goodies but more so to chat and see if you want to get involved in the future, whatever form that may look like!
Here is where to find the Retro Mopeds booth and also my Aprilia
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| My MBX sneaks in to the magazine's preview! |
