Hi
A big thank you to everyone who came along. It was really good to put some names to faces, the weather was perfect and the setting as ever was amazing - I counted all the London monuments - O2, Shard, Gherkin, St Pauls, London Eye and Post Office Tower - practically in a straight line, can't be many places you can do that. The camaraderie between traders was fantastic and there were some entertaining moments with an electric unicycle and trials of Cwah's bike. I think this event should definitely happen every year. As ever, too, a big thank also to D8veh and Steve for being there with some great bikes and their techie help to lots of people.
I agree with John that the attendance was a bit low but actually everyone was really busy the whole day ( I was knackered last night!) To get what I have always thought would be ideal - 200 to 300 attendees - might be ambitious as there would be queues for trials , parking spaces would run out and it could be chaotic. Maybe we should go for this but make it whole day event so it would be more spread out.
What do you all think?
Hatti
With any event it is tempting to be more ambitious for the next one.
The problem you have is getting enough visitors to make a larger scale event worthwhile.
Offering more bikes, a longer day, and other attractions would not in itself bring forwards lots more people.
To do that the event would need to be marketed much more heavily in advance.
Leaving aside the vexatious question of a budget, this is no easy task.
Ebikes are a tiny minority interest within a minority interest, so there's not a huge market to go at.
Reaching that market is also difficult, the relatively low number of members on here is probably the largest number of likely candidates in one place.
It may be best to accept that for the time being a small try out event is all that's warranted.
