Bike Bash
— Funny what you see when you're driving home on a Sunday afternoon.”
After a weekend spent seeing as many people as possible around the Leeds area, I’m quite tired today.
Driving home yesterday was painful. What had been a two anda half hour journey ballooned into about four hours, with bad weather and those pointless motorway slowdowns contributing to the cause.I don’t particularly like driving anyway, but the roads just seem to get worse and worse.
There were an extraordinary number of motorbikes on the roads yesterday. I mean swarms of them. Don’t know what that was all about, but I think the concentration was certainly around Donington Park. Ah, hang on, a bit of digging around tells me that it was the Moto GP there.
Not that the bikers were causing the congestion of course, for they just fly up the scant space between the lanes. I was just wondering why so many were around. J told me about something called the Bulldog Bash, which apparently is a national event for bikers.
“BAR-B-Q’S ALLOWED” says one of the rules for visitors, “BUT STRICTLY NO FIRES AND NO DOGS (EITHER ALIVE OR COOKED)”.
J says that these events are purer in spirit than the corporate-sponsored festivals of today. It’s taking place at Long Marston, near Stratford-upon-Avon and more information can be found on the official website, so why not get down there and check out the Topless Bike Wash?
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