Jack's Blog: September 2010

Christine said goodbye to her Uncle Mike in appropriate style today:

He loved motorcycles, so he went to his funeral on just that:

Ten riders gathered in Findon village, under dark clouds and drizzle, to form a cortege procession to accompany the Triumph hearse to Findon cremetorium.
With a police outrider (many thanks to John) at the rear, we processed through the village then onto the A24 where we took up the whole two lanes of carriageway between Findon and Washington roundabouts - twice, before turning into Findon cremetorium.

'All revved-up and know where to go' - after the mourners had entered the chapel the bikes gave a final farewell to Mike by waking the dead with handfuls of throttle!
Job done!

On behalf of Christine and Bill, thanks and appreciaton go to;
Alan & Sue, Rob, Simon, Eric, Steve, Mike, Martin and John for sparing the time to give Mike a good send off.

Brighton Speed Trials - Saturday 11th.

Nothing like a cup of tea................................................eh Thomas?

Cooper Manx.....................500cc manx Norton.............the Go Kart of its day!

Now thats what I call a lawn mower!...........................Where's my grass box?

Brighton Pavilion....a bit of culture...............................well, maybe not!

The end of another day of cultural activities for our visitors Thomas and Martin.

Ace Café Brighton Burn Up - Sunday 12th.

An early morning start from Worthing..

Brighton.......and the obligatory breakfast..........

The day is warming up nicely.

The bikes are rolling in..............now where did Andy put his bike...."oh, I remember.......its at home"

The girls are rolling in and Bill's too busy talking.. ..................now where did I spill my drink?

Some goodies from the Ace Café stall.........................................it those girls again!

The Paparazzi!.....................................................and the tempo is hotting up!

Time for refreshment............................................................

Some golden oldies..................................

Now this is a cool electric bike...........................

These are not so cool...........................burn baby burn!

Except this one........Thomas should have it to get to work in the winter - to stop him falling off in the snow! Besides, you shouldn't burn a VW Campervan!