Thread: Sika show 2022

I think it was a good sika show, with an impressive number of heads and a good number of people turning up.

I was there as a visitor yesterday and a volunteer with nzda this morning doing the car park under the rain .I was glad to have a hot meal at lunchtime under cover.
I caught up with so many people that I had not seen for quite a while, including Le Maca49 and le Rushy ;-)
A lot of the stands were offering higher end stuff that was out of my league ( things with carbon, titanium and electronic and lot of zeros behind the left digit) but it was good to see the effort that some companies went to to introduce some new products ( wingman with his mini chassis stock and his beautiful delisle, a young kiwi guy with his ultra light weight bipods and ice picks…etc).

The Ruahine port lady was there with a good number of new flavoured beverages. ( I got two bottles ( a grumpy goose and a thar) on Saturday , but when I was back home I got told I got the wrong ones on Saturday night , so I had to get a frisky fallow and a wapiti one today!)

I can understand the frustration for some for having to drive further to get to Hamilton and not necessarily finding a stand they were expecting to see or having a good deal on some items.

But I think we are very lucky that the gentlemen who took over the sika show where able to keep the concept going , specially after two years of covid.
They could have gone broke and we could have had nothing at all this year. And instead we not only had a show but also some great organisations ( nzda, sika foundation… etc ) that keep fighting for our passion of the outdoor.