Margate Meltdown 2011 pictures

The pictures are on several webpages about 100 pictures to a page, click on one of the links below to open a page.

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/id3.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/index.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/id4.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/id5.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/id6.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/id7.htm

Carters Steam Fair was also in Margate today the links below take you to pictures of that.

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/id8.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/meltdown/id9.htm

I have owned a few motorbikes over the years and rather like cars you have had you tend to notice particularly the models you have had and remember their little foibles. The motorcycle in the picture at the top of this post falls into this bracket for me. It is a BSA model A10 variant called a Super Rocket, not fast by the standards of today’s bikes, if I remember rightly its top speed was about 120 mph. To be honest one doesn’t spend a lot of time looking at the speedometer when going fairly fast on a motorcycle.

Little foibles with this model, a silly fibre cogwheel driving the magneto that the teeth fell off, I changed this for the racing version that had a manual advance retard on it and a cogwheel made of steel. After this one had to remember to retard the ignition before kick-starting it or it would try to remove your foot.

I did take some video of the band.

With the videos of the band some are better than others, I think the best is probably the one called “Margate Meltdown 2011 band 7.mpg” (the third form the bottom) I am on a bit of a learning curve with this video thing and I stood a bit to close to the band for the first and the last videos.

This has caused an overdrive effect, which works ok for some music and is deliberately done sometimes with electric guitars, however in this case it has just produced bad sound quality.