BEN
Charity Ride
throughWindsor
Great Park 2016
Normally
I'm a bit sharper at getting things done but over the last couple of
weeks I've been out and about quite a bit so computer time has been
limited. Now it's catch up time having done the usual bike check for
the run the little Velocette Valiant's exhaust crackled its way over
some 63 miles on the Saturday, using not a lot of fuel but I think
and equivalent amount of oil. Pleased I wasn't following me! The main
delay has been getting the forty or so minutes of video down to
something watchable without being too boring so now you can see what
I've been up to
https://youtu.be/VWV3ms5Eysk
This
time around I returned the “Bully Cup” awarded last year and now
I have had to return it for someone else to win. This year the bike
turnout was not so good and like most events like this the enthusiast
is torn between which one to go to.
Winners this year were a 1932
Francis Barnet in the pre 1945 class and the Rumi in the post 1945
class.
Both deserved winners. The proceedings were interrupted by a
heavy shower but other than that an enjoyable afternoon dishing out
fliers for the Museum. An uneventful trip home kept the day sweet.
I
was not sure if I was going to get to it, as rain clouds loomed again
on the Sunday there was a fund raising event for the Museum organised
by Dave Goddard at the Crown Pub Colham green Road Hillingdon. I
turned up on the Valiant to hand out fliers and go around with the
collection bucket. I met up with Francis Barnet man again and he won
another prize for best bike! This day I got one too for the Valiant.
There were some very nice bikes there and I was particularly taken
with the bright blue RAC outfit. Our great thanks to everyone who was
there and gave us some very generous donations making it possible to
stay open a bit longer.
Back
at the Museum on the Monday but not able to get to Cassington in the
evening, I had talked so much during the day that I had no voice left
to do any more. However I had recovered enough to get the Kawasaki
and Buell MOT'd during the week and got out to Chinnor Byke Dayz on
the Friday evening to help put the welcome pack together and for me
this meant putting Museum fliers along with a bike shop flier and
voting cards into the program. After doing that I headed home not
staying for the first bands of the weekend as I had to be in Swindon
early next day. This year there were Seventeen!!!!! Non stop
entertainment and well worth going along so time to put it in the
diary for next year as the first weekend in July.
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