Festival of Speed Goodwood (Saturday)

Saturday, and decided to get onto the stand early. Rode a Compact1 from the campsite to the stand and got told off by security 'health & safety mate, you can't ride that here'! What, all the high speed kit on display and I can't ride a bike, the world has gone mad.
Nevermind weather better today, beautiful morning loads of people about should be a cracking day. Great thing about our stand is we can see the big screen from the edge, so we can view all the track action without having to move from the stand!

Festival of Speed (Friday)

Weather forecast for friday wasn't great, rain looked likely, but in the end we got away with just a few spots. The blustery wind though, meant the FoldingBikeHut flag fluttered away happily all day!
Great interest in the bikes from early on (if only we had realised the show opened at 7 A.M.) especially the Matrix which really created a stir. Friday turned out to be the busiest day more visitors as well as sales, and we gave out loads of info and brochures.

Off to the Festival Of Speed

Off to the Festival of Speed tomorrow, its set up day thursday, hope it's stopped raining by then! At least we have a proper marquee, Brookfield Marquees has done us proud as friday doesn't look like its gonna be all that dry!
Wonder if Lewis Hamilton can be persuaded to buy a folding bike? Not such a silly idea, great for getting around the paddock. well if he comes by our stand (233) we will certainly try.

BBC Summer Festival

FoldingBikeHut at the BBC summer festival at the NEC (June 11th -15th), we had a perfect spot right next to the sustainable living feature. Gordon Ramsey was there so was James Martin ( who was looking at the Italian Scooters on the stand opposite!). Loads of yummy food in the food hall, we had a different lunch every day although the favourite was the Bacon & Egg rolls for breckie from the Organic Farmers produce stand!
I think most people who came to our stand were pleasantly surprised to find someone selling folding bikes, 'you mean that will fold and go in the boot of my car' was heard time and time again, some had seen our ad in the (very comprehensive) programme, most were just amazed that the Dahon Jack actually folds!! The website has been very busy since, many new converts to folding bikes, I think we'll be back next year.

Jackie out with jack her folding Dahon Bike

Well what a fab day Bank Holiday Monday was i went for a bike ride on my new Dahon folding bike i had brought thro the cycle scheme, what a fad deal that is i pay £170 pounds the bike is worth £300!!!!! ... any way went on a pub crawl near where i live, blimey did the hills kill but hey ho , any way into the first pub downed a half a pint (lightweight) lol, went on to the next by the fourth the hills didn't hurt any more....the bike was superb i live in a small flat and the bike just folds and i am able to take it up stairs and store it for safety it only weighs 12k and the saddle is very easy on the bum...!!!