As you can see from the pic, we've got the bare bones of the stands built and tomorrow we start stocking up. Tomorrow also marks the day the daily battle to avoid wearing the Ingersol begins in earnest.
We have a few traditions; one of the more recent ones is that we have a vote at the end of every day to decide who must wear a tasteless watch the next day as a penance for an act of stupidity or incompetence. There are a few rules, but most of them can be bent to make sure that Rob (our MD and tea boy on the left) has to wear it on Trade Day when he has a lot of meetings!
This year we have a whole side of our stand dedicated to gloves, with loads of our bestsellers for you try at very special show prices. Terry and June, sorry, Ricky Moon spent most of the day building the cages to store them all, then Ricky climbed a ladder because we told him he'd get better reception on his mobile that way. Ricky is no stranger to the Ingersol!
There's no bikes to be seen yet, but apparently Yamaha have Ben Spies WSB winning R1, James Toselands M1 and a proper bike - a reverse cylinder YZ450F! The hall the bikes are in looks packed, I suspect the lack of certain manufacturers whose name begins with "H" just means the other guys have more room.
