Generally speaking, and in a ‘normal’ world, this part of the news pages would be full of juicy bits and pieces about the Hagon Shocks-supported Classic Dirt Bike Show at Telford.
In this space would be information about our guests and bits about the bikes already lined up to come. We’d have comments from stall holders, press releases from clubs as they told us the details about the forthcoming year.
Then of course there would be the prize presentations of various trials and MX series which would have been running through the year…
But it’s not… for the simple reason that although at time of writing our colleagues here are planning that the show is on, we are all realistic and know the rug could be pulled with just a few days’ notice.
The global pandemic which has played havoc with life in general around the world has hit sports and events particularly hard and the question asked of the editor at the few events which have happened in 2020 has run along the lines of “Is Telford on then?”
The show is such a part of the off-road life it has become recognisable to us all by only that one word… ‘Telford’ and any