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So what are the funniest things you've done, heard or seen at a rally. My top 3 this year are:

1) Stretchermonkey's tent at Dent
2) Paul coming over to me to tell me he'd found the perfect patch for his waistcoat. It said " F F F F F*ck Off!
3) Stretchermonkey giving dance lessons before we went to the rave tent at the Farmyard, anyone remember Big Fish, Little Fish, Play with the ball???

So come on guys, what are yours?

Nah....I think the tent at Dent is gonna be really hard to beat for years....

Someone's bike alarm going off a 4 am in the morning right next to my tent

But stretchermonkey's tent is hard to beat

The Stormin the Castle rally a drunken Scotsman lying in the middle of a field not just drunk but has now passed the coherent thought stage. Enter stage left one Geordie lad who has also passed the coherent thought stage.

Here we see the Geordie lad finding said scotman lying snoring in the middle of a field. Geordie lad takes pity on Scotsman and wakes him up with delicate boot to ribs and the famous Geordie greeting “Wey hey man Dinna fookin lie there ye wull get stood oan” The Scotsman replies in best Scots….” Awwwwmanwheresmatent” Geordie lad replies “adivent tellus some rotten bastids stole yir tent” Scotsman almost in tears “Naw ah jist canny fun the thing they aw look the same”

Both the Geordie lad and the Scots lad look at each other and survey the surrounding mass of tents and realize both are well and truly lost, they offer a share of the respective bottles that they are clutching with a firm handshake both wander off into the night.

The next day a hungover Scotsman sees a familiar figure a hungover Geordie lad they both recognize each other and the suffering that they both share. An offering of a brew and a roll and egg with bacon is eagerly accepted both eat and drink hardly daring to speak .

Fast forward 5 years and both Geordie and scots lad are still best friends only meeting at Stormin to share a roll and a brew and say hello to each other and shake hands. Good friends

Thats easy. Me lighting my right side pipe on fire for the first NH rally. And seeing the look on Rob's face when he found out I wasn't a 50yr. Then seeing Pat, Ron, Rob etc trying to figure out how you can melt chrome. At least I missed the monsoon.

1976 Dragon Rally, minus 7C camping in Snowden. Feeling pretty miserable that Sunday morning, frozen and hung over whem some flash German git who had ridden from Elephant Rally in Germany on his brand new BMW and arctic suit etc. They then started telling us how we had it soft - it was much colder in Germany etc etc. They were sooo much better equiped than we were. (I was on a 1960 velocette venom with black plastic bags as wet weather gear) They camped next to us looking down on our pityfull play tent plastic sheet and primus stove. They put up a flash arctic explorer tent then took out a state of the art gas stove (it was 1976!) - We grinned when it wouldnt light he was out of gas, he shrugged pulled a spare tank from his panniers and gave us a we are ready for anything look. He unscrewed the cylinder and oops he wasnt out of gas the jets on the gas stove were just frozen up. The tank took off like a rocket and the gas caught fire - it shot straight into his tent and it went up like .... well like a tent full of expensive gear on fire.

We would have helped but we didnt know much about such high tech gear and we may have broken it - besides we were laughing too much.

watching matt drink sparks from the holes in the pavement in georgia is pretty close.

I quite liked the Geordie family camped next to us at the farmyard party and the dulcit tones of the early morning ritual of waking.

Scouse at Dent - A picture of a man in a poncho gazing adoringly, through a haze of smoke and stella, at his bike in the pouring rain.

The look on Gregorz face when he was told he had won the best bike at Dent.

I did like the one with Paul and the f f f f f f f badge that did make me laugh .

To be honest there are other things from way back but this year has been a good one because basically I couldn't have wished to have met a nicer bunch of people.

Someone stop me before I go all Gwynneth Paltrow!

Once on the MMA Hanford run (rally), The OL and I set up tent on the lawn within easy walking distance of the loo (restroom). We had made a loop tape of the soundtrack from an especially wild scene in an X rated movie and started it playing in the tent, then stood back to watch. There were a lot of interesting reactions, especially when the batteries started to go flat and people began to realize what was happening.

Another time at Hanford, during the bike games, they had a contest to ride 3 wheelers from a starting line to a finish line blindfolded. Whoever stopped closest to the finish won. A poor guy on a Mustang Delivery was stopping exactly on the line, then his clutch cable broke.