excellent cross-section of bikes were present; trikes chops, scooters, classics, you name it.
The weather could not have been better and we raised a bit over £3,000 for MAG. What a weekend! But it would not have happened without the following people: Zoe, John C, John G, Dawn, Gab, Clive, Jenny, Bill, Alan, Dean, Roy, Trogg, Doug, Tracey, Jono, Mike, Anna, Pete and a few others. Will we be doing it next year? You bet your left buttock we will! Hope to see you there next year for more fun and frolicks. Richard Long
The Presidentʼs take
Lorna Doone, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Francis Drake, The Beast of Bodmin. These are the images that crowded my adolescence and sent me West on a 500BSA single when I left school in 1970. These days I still take every opportunity to return to the lush rolling hills of Devon and have been hugely heartened by the re-emergence of MAG in the West Country. With the deadline of the last ROAD looming, I should have been nailed to my desk but with the weather forecaster promising high summer heat-wave conditions I couldn’t help myself and have seldom been so glad that I caved in to temptation.
Everything is just so easy and relaxed when the weather is great and with temperatures riding into the 80s by mid morning on Saturday I decided to make the ride out that rolled along uncrowded B roads to Zorba’s cafe for a tea and cake before returning to base for a bike show that produced some stunning customs and classics in concourse condition. I have a shocking confession to make here as during the ride out I passed a biker on a Bonneville broken down at the roadside and didn’t stop.
Shame shame! you may cry. The truth is I was tragically transfixed by the contours of a Bandit 1200 rider up ahead of me toward whom I had developed a protective instinct which does me great credit. I was convinced she would break down at any moment and therefore need my help. OK as it happened she didn’t but I felt the gentlemanly thing to do was to stay on her tail just in case. That’s the truth, it is . . it is.
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