Sudbury Extravaganza 2010

The 4th Sudbury Scooter Extravaganza - Saturday 17th April 2010

"Awesome night, for those who left in the afternoon you really missed out on something special" - Andy

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Check back soon for a full write up, pictures and videos

This free event was made possible though the support from our sponsors and club funds.

Trophy Sponsors

Birtoni Scooters in Colchester : 01206 790867 or visit scootersauce.com
'R's Autos, Acton Industrial Estate : The place for scooter MOTs in the Sudbury area . 01787 378080
DJ Mark Anthony : Top quality professional DJ for Scooter Events, Weddings and Parties
The Bay Horse, Sudbury
DVLC Scooter Club, Colchester

Raffle Sponsors

Warrior Clothing, MERC Clothing, Si Barber and Jeff Bartrop

Thanks for buying raffle tickets, bus stops and food. Without this, we'd not be able to run the day for free.

Thanks to everyone that attended, sorry if we've missed anyone out.

The Sudbury Marshalls & Club Members, DVLC, Coasters, A12, Kings Lynn B&G, Newmarket, Centurions, Braintree SC, Arrows, Mod Life Crisis (Bury SE), Haverhill Circles, The Minorities & All The Solo Riders

A special mention must go to the guys that came all the way from Nuneaton & Tamworth, well done guys & glad you all enjoyed yourselves.

Full Details

Rideout

The early fog cleared to leave a hot and sunny morning, about 40 scooters met up at KFC to head to Tollgate via Bures and Fordham.
By the time we'd had a coffee and Big Mac, we'd reached nearly 100 scooters.

We left for Coggeshall to have a beer at The Cricketers. Phil the landlord, an original mod from the 60's, kindly laid on some sausage and chips, nice one. The car park overflowed and scooters parked on the road and paths around the pub. By this time, two of the scooters had developed a smoke problem as a result of filling up with diesel, oops. It turns out, one scooterist made the mistake of picking up the wrong nozzle, only to pass it to his mate to do the same without realising... doh!!!

Video of the meeting and stop offs. See full size on Youtube

With the sun now beating down and the temperature reaching 16 degrees, not bad for mid April, we continued the ride out towards Earls Colne and onto Halstead. The ambulance managed to get past all of us without too much trouble but the marshalls did have some interesting hand signals to get those without mirrors to pull to the side !!!
Heading down the back roads through the housing estate, we made our way up through the centre of the town and on to Sible and Castle Hedingham.
The marshalls played a blinder and kept all 100 scooters together through the country roads and across the junctions.
A couple of scooters pulled up beside the road at one point with a leak, not from their engine but to answer the call on nature. Go before you leave the pub next time ;-)

We pulled into the industrial estate 15 minutes ahead of our planned time. Is this the first time ever on a ride-out?

Watch the video of the arrival into Ballingdon full size on Youtube

Just over 100 scooters pulled into the meeting point at Ballingdon prior to the ride through the centre of Sudbury Town centre. The public and cars stopped to watch the spectacle all with big smiles !!!

Pictures from Beat Pete on Flickr

Ridden Scooter Trophies

Best Standard Lambretta - Li 125, BDX 314B. Lawrence Woolston

Winner 2010 - standard lammy lawrence woolston

Best Custom Lambretta - Menace
Winners 2010 - Custom Lammy

Best Standard Vespa - DGW 64B, Small Frame SS. Michael Somes

Best Custom Vespa - Warren Brown, Purple Rally
Winners 2010 - Custom Vespa

Best of Show - Steve (the Doctor), Blue/white Lambretta & Sidecar
Winners 2010 - Best of Show

Live Music
4:30pm : The Exceptions
This was the first gig for this young local band. Playing to a full pub for about an hour an twenty minutes, these guys blasted through tracks including The Beatles, The Who, Jet, The Automatics, The Jam and Blur.

One comment I heard was that they were 'too loud..' !!!

Click here to watch full size on Youtube

9pm : Ska'd 4 Life.

This 7 piece Ska band played a fantastic crowd pleasing set

See it full size on Youtube

Full page write up in Scootering (No. 228 June)
(website image resolution prevents this showing clearly...sorry. I'll see what I can sort out)