Help for Heroes/Wootton Bassett event (and bike mini review chuckedin for good measure)

I was visiting my father in Bassett today for lunch so we popped up to
the High Street for a look see.

Bearing in mind how many were there, the assembled riders seemed to be
pretty ****-free, with only one or two thinking that banging it off the
rev limiter past the war memorial was a clever thing to do.

We [1] got caught up in the procession on the way back [2] and it was
clapped and cheered by the crowd. After all, all we'd done was eat a
Cornish Pasty and some rice pudding...

As an aside, now I've got a few miles under my belt on the Busa and got
beyond the "if I twist this, it goes warp speed and I get giggly" stage,
I've relaxed a lot more and tried for smooth rather than giggly. It's
utterly lovely; very easy to ride, very flexible and the suspension
works nicely from 20mph up. And it's remarkably comfortable. Only oddity
is that at "points" speeds [3] it gets a little tingly through the bars
and my hands feel numb after an hour or so.


[1] myself and Horse, on the Busa
[2] it's the road back home
[3] as opposed to the "straight to ban" or "straight to jail" speeds

 

Could only find it in the DM


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257870/15-000-bikers-ride-Wootto
n-Bassett-honour-troops-Afghanistan.html

 

BBC, Telegraph and Guardian have pretty much the same sets of photos.

 

That's probably because it was Afghan Heroes, not Help for Heroes,
completely different bunch, obviously.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK...nd-People-Of-The-Town/Article/201003215573525

 

Summat to do for folk with no lives i suppose, why o why do we feel the
need?

Another annoying thing, why the term 'bikers' fucking press. What's
wrong with motorcyclists?

 

<clicks Mick's link>

Is there something you want to tell us, "Andy" ?

 

You should put that in your Sig really

 

Fourth picture, close up.