Hawk-Treffen in Essen-Kettwich, 10-12 september 2004

As the Pegestorf meeting is a biannual affair, 2004 threatened to be a lean year for the Hawkers. Of course Mike & Co have been on the racetrack with their Hawks but the year would be incomplete without a Hawk meeting. A big thank you to Peter & family and the other enthousiasts that have made it happen this year. Every year I've almost made up my mind to trade in the Hawk for some Africa Twin or Super Tenereé but as ever I return from the meeting knowing that I'll probably keep the bike another year and perhaps add some of the trick stuff that others have done to the bike.

This report will have very little text, just pictures and when you point the cursor at the picture there may appear a comment. Once again it was good to see Dirk, Uwe, Jens, the Two Brothers Hofmann (unfortunatly no Tanja (AGAIN!)) and many other faces that I've seen before and a few new ones. The Hawks are still alive!!!

More pictures can be found on Hawk-gt.de and the NTV Forum

arrival after a very wet ride to Germany amazing how much you bring along for just one night!

the fantasticly goodlooking race Hawk from Andreas who would spot the NTV650 in this? you'd be the exeption

the Hawks keep on coming, at the edge of the large garden where we put up the tents not all riders were equally experienced

all in all a good 25 Hawks attended the meeting plus miscellanious other bikes veryveryvery nice!

grilled food, salads and endless supplies of beer for small money lots of hornets (not of the Honda species)

waking up in the morning. yep, it's all still there Uwe and Dirk's very tidy red Hawks