chedder gorge meet 09/04/06

i know i should have checked the event diairy before but i did not, and for that i hold my hands up and say sorry

i am a bmwcc member and have been for the last 2 years

i have attended lots of shows and a few of the south west ones and found to be very good events

i started to do my own meets as there was none around at the time on this forum and it was really hard to get people to come along

i joined other forums which have had lots of meets over the years, so i attended one and met some great people, i took some ideas of what goes on at  meets, so i could use them for mine

over the 2 years i joined more forums and now got the meet details on 7 different ones

 

i think people should have a choice and not feel they have to go to one or the other because it on this forum

they could have said yes they would come on  other forums, would that have made a difference ?

Mike Fishwick:

can i ask why the south west region never put details of they events on the south west region forum

be good to see you again john

new motor again

   Mike Fishwick ( back in the UK?)
      I have sent PM to Mike 318iS we will talk at Hestercome with David Leake.
   johnny 318is
       Dont need a crystal ball all Car Club events are on the web see link top of page, and in the Magazine!

Mike 318iS

    Your right I should have put it in hear as well as the events on the web

Ron

Edited by 325i Ron

Oh this is really getting all deja-vu with the central meets mess about 12 months ago and, like the mafia, the anonimity of an internet forum managed to change a drama to full-blown crisis.

IMO its going to be too time consuming for someone to have to put every meet up on the forum and then remember to keep updating them so they don't fall off the bottom of the screen.

Why not either put a sticky locked thread up in the main SW section with a link to the events list or just put a locked thread with a run-down of events, meets etc for the year?

The worst about this is that it puts the people who are trying to get things going off doing anything! Coming from the Central (Milton Keynes) area I can smell apathy from way-off.

Last year the MK meets were attended by 10 or so people on average. Then it was publicised that the Central AGM was being held and at that AGM several people were appointed as area pub meet organisers.BRILLIANT everyone thought but IMO this just compounded the problem.

This caused some resentment by the present organisers who could not get to the AGM and were then told they couldnt organise meets unless through the new meet organisers. Then the new meet organisers almost to a man became very very insular about their own meets and stopped attending anyone elses meets!!

Result, well the MK meets prior to all that ran fromas little as 2 people up to 30-35 but averaged about 10-12, not bad for a Sunday lunchtime once a month. After the ruling.... well lets just say the best that it rated was 3.

Instead of the responces here why don't we look at the positive.....there are 2 immediately enthusiastic people wanting to organise things, ontop of Rons meets too- surely the more people there are offering more alternative style meets and on alternative days and times the better?...ok so Mikes meets are Mikes meets and not BMWCC meets but its a start. A clash of events is a real pain but now its happened can't we take a lesson that both can be run just need to be enough of a gap and notice.

Just my thoughts.

John

I don't think for one moment thats it Mike its just enthusiasm coupled with not checking or knowing where to check.

One problem that the issues with the central region highlighted was that for a meet to be organised under the banner of the CC it can only be attended by CC members-this could cause resentment from non-CC members and IMO just points to BMW enthusiasts not in the CC that the BMWCC is very eliteist and aloof. Also if a meet was organised this way then surely it almost negates the point of the meet which is to bring new blood into the CC?

As far as I see our energy would be better put to ironing out these discrepancies so they don't happen again. This time is unfortunate by why not get all 3 parties working together to get 3 regular things going, then add a 4th, 5th etc etc.

If, as suggested earlier, no-one on the SW commitee is a forum member maybe its suggested that at least one of them gets on here.

First welcome to SF_Biggy are you a Club Member or just a forum person? like the car perhaps you would like to join us at Hestercombe Gardens Nr Taunton 7th May open to all.


Ron Parish

Ohh i think im just a forum member at the mo

just over 2 weeks to go now

1 day to go