The night before, Paul and I decided to meet up at C&A Superbikes, Kings Lynn around 8:30am as we had a ride-out arranged from there to the BMF Peterborough show. However no one else turned up apart from us, Paul brought along his lady, soon to be Mrs Newman x.
We waited till 9am then headed off to the BMF. It was a little windy on the way there but not too bad. When we arrived there was a few people waiting for us see above photo.
We had a few photos taken there then Bernard William Jewry otherwise known as Alvin Stardust of the Glam Rock style of the 1970's turned up on his borrowed trike, see below middle, built in Germany - best engineering of course. He was a really nice chap, down to earth and since I had to Google who he was that morning I wasn't star struck in anyway so just chatted to him about his horse riding hobby and tried my best to persuade him to not listen to his management and get himself a bike
Typically, the rain that had managed to hold of dumped itself on us. It was arranged for us to ride in column into the arena, do a bite of mike talking then a few laps and then off, so off we went. It was different than a typical weekend for sure lol.
After wards we went for something to eat and a look around. Usually the BMF if heaving but because of the weather I would say only a third turned up. The tail end event is always the best to get biking bargains and a good bit or retail therapy. The materials suit I was going to use on the trip decided to fall to bite the week before the trip, hence the Kevlar jeans, so I treated myself to a heated jacket and trousers for £45, that’s right, last of the big spender’s lol.
At least now I know what I'm working for though, to travel. Next year’s plans are to circumnavigate Ireland for two weeks then a two week trip to Rome via the Alps and maybe catch a ferry and travel back through the Balkans, watch this space.
One of the big show bikes above, was a Yamaha.
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