Ten Reasons To Enter BGBT
Added on Friday, August 5th, 2011 by Carole Nash Editor | No Comments
Ten Reasons To Enter BGBT
Britain’s Got Biking Talent with Carole Nash is back for the fifth consecutive year, all set to celebrate the finest motorcycles owned, restored, customised or simply tenderly loved by Joe and Jo Biking Public! Now firmly established as a brightly shining highlight in the biking calendar this two-wheeled talent show is the only national platform from which ordinary bikers can compete for the adulation of their peers – and a bevy of brilliant prizes.
With the 2011 competition well underway Insidebikes presents Ten Reasons To Enter Britain’s Got Biking Talent.
* For more details and to enter visit www.britainsgotbikingtalent.co.uk
1. A poll position for all
Not only is BGBT the biggest competition in which bikers themselves vote for the nation’s finest bikes, it’s a contest which can be won by pretty much any type of motorcycle. Entries are welcome from right across the biking spectrum, from classic to customs, sports to scooters, streetfighters to street modified. If it is, to use the ugly industry term, a powered two wheeler, then you can enter it – as long as it’s your pride and joy of course!
2. Prize guys
Whilst much of the competition is about the glory there’s no getting away from the fact that the prizes are pretty blinking lovely. This year the top award is worth nigh on £2,300 and comprise £1,000 in cash, a Protect A Bike shed plus a nifty Envy motorcycle lift. The second place bike will see its owner walk off with a £500 limited edition five-draw Carl Fogarty rollcab toolbox whilst the third prize winner will positively strut off and in some style, courtesy of £250 of top biking wear, comprising a natty pair of Midnight Blue Sartso jeans, a pair of Gerbing G3 heated gloves and a Moto One Baselayer top. Pretty neat huh?
3. Shoot the runners
If you’re among the twelve finalists your bike will be professionally photographed by top bike photographer, Adam Duckworth. This is no small deal. Adam is the bike photographer par excellence whose work has featured in MCN, Ride, Classic Bike, Performance Bikes, Dirt Bike Rider, Motocross Action and more. Every finalist’s bike will get the red carpet treatment with a glory capturing studio shoot yielding a brilliant image, a large framed print of which will presented as a memento to the proud owner.
4. Calendar pearls
Once photographed the delightful dozen, the finest gems from the UK biking world, then feature in Carole Nash’s annual calendar, a must-have for many a British biker. Over 100,000 of these are set to grace garage walls and bikers’ bedrooms as they are distributed free at the NEC’s Motorcycle Live 2011 and other bike shows, as well as being sold via the Carole Nash website.
5. Magazines – FREE to every entrant!
Those fabulous prizes….the glory…..the admiration of your peers……there’s more than enough reasons to enter Britain’s Got Biking Talent. But here’s one more magnificent incentive. Every single entrant will be able to claim a free motorcycle magazine from among the impressive glossy stable offered by MCN publisher, Bauer. Entrants can choose the title which best suits from their passion, from Bike, Classic Bike, Performance Bikes and RiDE.
6. Read all about it
BGBT is organised in partnership with MotorCycle News (MCN) which proudly boasts of being the world’s number one motorcycling publication. Naturally enough MCN devotes a good wedge of editorial space to the contest, featuring bikes as the competition progresses – from early entrants, to the shortlisted machines, the finalists and winners. Fantastic coverage of ordinary bikers’ beautiful bikes is splashed across both the weekly paper and motorcyclenews.com. If you’re featured you’ll dine off it for weeks as your biker mates share in your moment of glory.
7. Celebrity stares
Enter and you’re guaranteed that your bike will be ogled by the great and good of the two-wheeled world. Every year a celebrity panel convenes to determine which bikes will make it through to the shortlist. This year they’ll pick 40 to face the public vote with a further ten being decided by the number of ‘Likes’ bikes achieve when posted on our very own Insidebikes Facebook page. Celeb judges are
Charley Boorman – modern day motorcycling adventurer, travel writer, entertainer and co-star of the hit biking TV shows, Long Way Down and Long Way Round, plus his own By Any Means.
Danny John-Jules – Actor best known for The Cat, the character he created for sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and biker known for his pink Yamaha R1 charity exploits and 7,000 mile Iron Butts challenge for Sports Relief.
Jon Quantrell – Brilliant boss of Hawg Haven, internationally acclaimed and award-winning customisers, creators of such genius bikes as Psy-Bawg, Barnstormer and the Carole Nash Old Skool Bobber, built live at the 2008 International Motorcycle & Scooter Show (now Motorcycle Live!).
Marc Potter – who has spent the past eight years in the editor’s chair/saddle of MotorCycle News, the world’s largest motorcycle newspaper and website.
8. Show on
As well as appearing in the Carole Nash calendar the twelve finalists will also have their bikes showcased on a special Britain’s Got Biking talent stand at the UK’s biggest motorcycle show – Motorcycle Live! Despite Arctic conditions a smidge under 100,000 bikers battled the snow to attend last year’s NEC show, opened by the great Jorge Lorenzo and host to the grand finale of BGBT. Actor Danny John-Jules – best known as Red Dwarf’s Cat – was on hand to announce the winners and hand out the prize. Didcot biker Steve Stone took overall honours, his stunning race spec’d but road legal GSX-R1000 K8 winning him a VIP trip to a European Moto GP courtesy of Pole Position Travel.
9. It’s easy, rider
Taking part in Britain’s Got Biking Talent is as easy as falling off…oh hang on, that’s possibly not the best simile! But you get the gist. You needn’t have studied Classics at Cambridge or jump through more hoops than Mr. Hula himself (world record holder Paul “Dizzy Hips” Blair as you asked. 132 hoops, no less). All you have to do is click here and upload a pic of your machine. That’s it. The Great British Biking Public will then have their say – that’ll include your mates, so don’t forget to spread the word that you’ve entered. MCN will be selecting bikes for editorial treatment and we’ll be posting entries that catch our eye on our own Facebook page (Don’t forget – like our page and you can tag your pic!).
10. Click with fellow bikers
Enter your bike and it could click with thousands and thousands of fellow bikers. To be more accurate they might click for you as this immensely democratic competition galvanises the biking community. In the past as many as 20,000 bikers have cast their votes to determine which bikes should appear at that year’s NEC show, be professionally photographed and feature within the Carole Nash calendar – and walk off with the top prizes.
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