Ton Up Day - Post 1

Some amazing bikes there this year and a deserved well done to Tom for his 1st place award!

 

Ton Up Day - The Ride Down

Sunday was a wicked day, great ride down....especially getting to watch Dave ditch his Bonnie into a grassy bank, quick summersault to land upright with his thumbs in the air.....will be laughing about that one for some time to come!

Met up at the 'sausage for the ride over, took too many pics so they'll be a few posts on the event itself to follow....

 

Gonna be a good weekend!

Jim Jones Revue

Probably the best band in the world and still perpetually touring - check out dates here, best live show you'll see all year!

Gordon's Cave

Took a ride over to see Gordon last night, The guy is awesome and proper talented - makes you want to sit cross-legged and just listen to his stories. He has some awesome bikes - a real Aladdin's cave for petrol heads!

There's some great stories behind these bikes - The Velocette two-fifty used to power a saw bench, and does 60 in 1st!
The Black Matchless in background is our own Billy Whiz's old bobber (you know the one he falls off bike surfing back in Junk magazine issue 1)
The Sunbeam (I'm hankering after this bike) sat in a loft for 20 years, the list goes on

Just as I was leaving a great bloke (Mark) on a '93 enfield spotted my triumph out front and stopped for a chat, as it turns out he did the same India ride this year as I did last year and we have a number of friends in common, including Darryl who we both rode with - small world!