Early
August
The
month of August drifts between holidays and events. Most of the time
the focus is on what is happening over the Bank Holiday weekend.
However, locally the first Wednesday in August is the Watford Car
Club annual event at Croxley Green near Sarlat just outside
Rickmansworth.
This
time I headed up there a bit earlier in the day to see what was there
and hand out some fliers for the Museum. I was on the Buell and after
getting to the depleted motorcycle parking area I was invited to put
the Buell on display with the other bikes. There were some really
well presented bikes there and as time went on more bikes were on
display. One caught my eye and at first I thought it was a Norton
Jubilee but when I questioned the owner is was the bigger engined
Navigator.
Off
to Birmingham at the weekend and handed out more fliers at the
Holiday Inn Birmingham airport and just down the road is the National
Motorcycle Museum. More fliers for them and I picked some of theirs
up to bring back. Monday at the Museum on the LE with another
international day and more rain. Tuesday out in the rain again to
Wycombe MAG to hand out more fliers and find out about the
shenanigans going on with subtle changes in the MAG name. Best left
to the people who know, I guess, but my view is that it is a waste of
effort that will not achieve very much. I do support MAG as we need
to have a political voice to remind the politicians we are still
voters. Moving on after more biking on Wednesday on the LE and a trip
to Snobs at Hangar Lane gyratory for a new battery for the Buell. I
thought it was time as I had to keep jump starting it off the car
battery. With the new battery fitted I was out on Thursday for a
ROG's run that went down to Eastbourne missing most of the rain. I
bemoaned the fact that each time I was out on the bikes it rained!
Bertha was dripping on me! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday so
far that week and if you have been following what I have been doing,
other than Croxley Green it has rained on me every ride out. Who said
it had been a dry summer? Eastbourne was a good trip out with the
only downpour at coffee break as we waited for the rain to go away
under a gazebo in a country garden hoping the lightening would miss
us.
At
Eastbourne we had lunch in Harry Ramsdens and watched the biplane
wing walkers doing stunts over the beach followed by a flypast of two
Spitfires and two Lancaster bombers. One from the UK and the other
featured on the news a few days earlier as it had come from Canada.
On
the way back to the bikes we came across a very nicely restored Ariel
Leader and the couple who rode it there have promised to come to the
Museum. Black clouds loomed but the run leader kept us away from the
rain and I managed to get home dry for a change.
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