Swedish Rally

If you take out the tee shirts and drinks the cost for 4 days is just over £70 per person for full board.

Rallies were once cheaper because everyone camped and meals were prepared by the campers on site with perhaps one meal a day purchased locally. So if you provide your own meals and carry camping equipment on your bike, costs would be kept to a modest level.

Maybe a low cost camping  International rally should reciprocate with events with accomodation, but would people attend?

I can remember when prices in Scandanavian countries were eye watering. I'm surprised to see that the essentials of life like beer, petrol, food in Sweden are very similar to ours now. 

My sister lives in Oslo and I never dare visit without bringing my full duty free allowance. 

Sad to say, the cost of living in the UK has gone right up.

For me the killer cost is the return ferry from Hull to Rotterdam. The long ferry from Germany to the port nearer the rally site is peanuts in comparison, and takes care of an overnight cost.

Still thinking about it.

Peter 

I understand that Sweden has gone digital, like the UK's Pound, Sweden has the Krona. Not so easy to do with a common currency, such as the Euro, but it will happen non the less.

This is one reason I have decided not to go. I firmly believe; Cash, use it or lose it.We'll lose it anyway but that will simply expose something. There are other reasons.

I simply wanted those travelling (3 years ago I'd be there) to be advised to charge up their debit cards before venturing East. I look fwd to the rally reports.

We often wonder why younger people aren’t getting into Nortons and the wider Norton scene, do we think it’s because it’s seen as a “rich man’s” hobby?
Mind you I was at a rally last weekend, bands on both nights, a badge and sticker on arrival and a generous “dram” all for £20 and still not a huge contingent of under 40s so maybe the rally scene is dying. Discuss!!

Hi Gino,

I attended many Winter rallies during the 70's and still got the badges.These gatherings were very well attended and the spirit (Not  not the wee dram) was high and the chat was 100% bikes and music.

Money back in the 70's was as tight as it is getting now, but we were all (Or mostly) in it together, rather than today's divided society. As far as I can go with that point.

This also went together with the lowering of the learner limit to 125cc from 250cc.

Then with regard to Norton's, they are often bought as an investment, rather than riding over a muddy rally field.... And yes, not too many under 25's to be found riding Norton's. Can't be the insurance but possibly the inflated value?

As for under 40's? These folks were brought up on imports with an end to mass British bike production.(I think Meriden shut down in 1983, though limited production continued under Mr Harris for a couple of years.