{"id":2084,"date":"2017-02-20T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2017-02-20T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T22:26:00","slug":"mcn-motorcycle-show-at-excel-centre-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/mcn-motorcycle-show-at-excel-centre-london\/","title":{"rendered":"MCN Motorcycle Show at Excel Centre London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years running I have been to this show, after a gap of 2 or 3 years. Its a minor highlight in a tedious winter month. Even quite early on the Friday it was heaving with people. The demographic is clear: the great majority of attenders are middle aged men. I&#8217;d say there is 5 &#8211; 10% women. And a few families with small kids who climb all over the bikes. There are always a small number of the injured, either with their wrists in a brace or with crutches or in wheelchairs. Every year I wonder what the stories are behind these more serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The bikes, of course are beautiful and shiny and great fun to swing a leg over. <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obliquepanic\/32895286091\/in\/album-72157678355329492\/\" title=\"Legendary light weight British adventure bike\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2642\/32895286091_5daf68e92b_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Legendary light weight British adventure bike\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>But mostly they are there to admire. Some, like the BMW R1200GS Adventure (huge already) up on a plinth higher than all the other Beamers. <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obliquepanic\/32895315231\/in\/album-72157678355329492\/\" title=\"untitled-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2632\/32895315231_27c2367a59_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"untitled-9.jpg\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Or there is the chrome Norton in a glass case.<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obliquepanic\/32866244092\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Norton at MCN motorcycle show\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/766\/32866244092_ca33206b77_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Norton at MCN motorcycle show\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There is always masses of stuff you can buy. I never know whether there are really any bargains to be had but the market creates lots of excitement.<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obliquepanic\/32895322701\/in\/album-72157678355329492\/\" title=\"untitled-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/739\/32895322701_5a314581d6_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"untitled-10.jpg\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>My journey there is always fun too. From Bankside I took the Thames Clipper  <a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obliquepanic\/32176389774\/in\/album-72157678355329492\/\" title=\"untitled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/643\/32176389774_5c0b3e9aee_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"untitled-1.jpg\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> up to the O2 then caught the Emirates air line <a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obliquepanic\/32979963806\/in\/album-72157678355329492\/\" title=\"untitled-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/261\/32979963806_63692d0bfd_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"untitled-5.jpg\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obliquepanic\/32206400793\/in\/album-72157678355329492\/\" title=\"untitled-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3919\/32206400793_4f0cc75155_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"untitled-6.jpg\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> over the Thames with its stunning view and commentary about the history of invention and the Lea Valley. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years running I have been to this show, after a gap of 2 or 3 years. Its a minor highlight in a tedious winter month. Even quite early on the Friday it was heaving with people. The demographic is clear: the great majority of attenders are middle aged men. I&#8217;d say there is 5&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/mcn-motorcycle-show-at-excel-centre-london\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MCN Motorcycle Show at Excel Centre London<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-london"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}