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naitram

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Massive Power Surge Halts Bike Show
« on: February 13, 2004, 11:26:26 AM »

The Northeast Motorcycle Expo at the Rockingham Park in Salem, NH was forced to close a day early because of power outage.  The show was well attended on Saturday, there were plenty of bikes entered in the bike show, the band, RB Gunn was entertaining the attendees, and the Texas Bikini Team put on three shows.  Motorcyclists have come to expect a quality show from Kev & Marv.  This weekend wasn't going to be any different. That is until a transformer failed in the parking lot.  A couple of food service workers said that they were getting out of their car around 8am when the transformer let go.  "It was a loud explosion, quickly followed by two more loud bangs".  The two other bangs were the electrical sub-station next to the building and the emergency generator.



Without backup power the facility was shut down.  The track upstairs was closed for the day and the bike show was cancelled.  As the vendors and bike show participants arrived Kevin Clement explained to them the circumstances and offered his apology.  What a class act!  He and his partner Marvin had over $45,000 invested in advertising the show.  They stood to lose the most out of everyone for the weekend.  Instead of complaining about their situation they did everything they could to accommodate the vendors and owners of the show bikes.  They quickly brought in buckets of coffee and bagels. They have always known that motorcyclists came to the shows because of the quality vendors and custom bikes. Even though they were going to be losing the most out of everyone there, Kev and Marv really went above and beyond what they were required to do.  To ensure that the area's best vendors continue to return year after year, Kevin and Marvin have refunded the vendors half of their booth rental fees.  While many promoters would say that the show was open Saturday and that the closing was beyond their control and the vendors would have to live with it.

A letter to the vendors included "Overall, we had a good season
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