Our skinhead Cruiser man LMG takes a
look at what's been going on in the
world of events. LMG reports on
location at Overland Magazine Event.
Explanatory summary of the point of view taken:
This article has been written from the perspective of a general attendee of the event. The article
is not meant to be a complete review of every presentation given, every product demonstrated,
or every vendor stall offering their wares at the event. The perspective was taken to randomly
select presentations to view, and mingle with the masses.
Travelling the world on a motorcycle – is there anything better? Us motorcycle explorers
love to do it, and if we can’t appease our addiction by actually travelling then we love to listen to
like-minded people talk about their travels. This year, a new event created by the team which
brought you the classy Overland magazine, arrived on the calendar to address a largish gap
made by the absence of the UK HUBB event - this year, we had inaugural ‘The Overland Event’.
The Overland Event was held over the June 19th-21st weekend at Great Missenden, a village in
the Misbourne Valley of the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England. The organisers, perhaps
knowing their audience a little too well, had secured a good sized field for the event next to the
Black Horse pub. Attendees arriving at the pub car park, and assuming that they didn’t dismount
and immediately set about emptying the Black Horse of its alcoholic stores, would enter the
adjoining field to register for the event.
The event was laid out in a typically orderly fashion , with the main field being divided in to two
primary areas: the first part of the field being the main “event” location, and the far part of the
field being held over for attendees camping. There was an additional camping field over a gate
in the next adjoining field, however either the attendees wanted to be close to the action, or
didn’t realise that there was another less occupied field they could make use of. Sufficed to say
that the camping in the main field was the most popular locale to pitch up.
In the centre of the event field was a large marquee homing an eclectic display of motorcycles
which had actually travelled to almost every location on planet Earth. Enfield, BMWs,
Kawasaki’s, Hondas, large and small, were all laid out with the owners relevant information
about the travels undertaken. One could easily spend a day looking at all of the bikes, reading
the information of the journeys, and imagine oneself doing the same trip.
The back and right sides of the of the event field were passed over the vendor stores which
covered everything from purchasing bungy cords through to organisations who could ship your
motorcycle to the other side of the world.
Part of the left hand flank of the event field was turned over to the catering services on offer.
Along with traditional burgers and bacon baps, visitors to the event could partake of Thai and
South African cuisine. Drinks were on offer from all of the food vendors and making a nice
addition to the event was a dedicated “professional” coffee stall located almost directly outside
of the authors tent.