We had been visiting our friends, Helen and Mark in the Offords, and were on our way home, when we were stopped at the road leading to Toseland by a (non-police) motorcyclist in the road, with hazards flashing, allowing motorbikes off the Toseland road onto the main road. A lot of bikes, I mean a lot of bikes!
After a while the flagged last rider came out and we were allowed to continue (arguably, they had no right to do this, but there was no point in pushing it, besides it was interesting and we were in no rush.
We followed them to the point where they peeled off onto a road different to ourselves. Carrying on, we ended up at the local Lidls only to see them all coming along past us. We were out of the car, stood by the road. The bikes were stopped by the traffic lights, so I took the opportunity to ask one of the riders how many bikes, to my regret and stupidity, I did not ask what event they were involved in. There were 500 (yes, not a mistype – five hundred) bikes involved. An amazing sight.
Many of them took great delight in revving their engines when stuck at the lights. It was very noisy and very impressive.
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