Imagine a custom show at the North Yorkshire seaside on a bleak November day, completely free and populated by thousands of promenading Goths. It was bloody great.
There were only two m'cycles, Peter Pan and me but we were popular !
The cleverly named RAC Rally is Europe's premier historic forest rally and takes place in the North East and Southern Scotland this weekend. Details of where to go and who to see here
Historic rallying is supposedly a re-creation of what we did in the 70s, but instead of young men in battered cars it is now middle aged wealthy men in replicas of works cars that cost more than a small house. Still worth putting on all your clothes and sitting in a forest for a few hours though.
Video is from last years event and photo is of young men in a battered car in Broxa Forest in '76/'77. Car was a Twin Cam, worth about £1,500 then and £30,000 now. I think we broke a halfshaft...
Two big events in North Yorks this weekend. Pickering Steam Fair, the second biggest in the UK. Vintage cars, bikes, bicycles, tractors, wall of death, rides, autojumble plus all the usual fairground attractions and tat stalls.
Always a good day out if the weather holds, even if you're not a child or a pikey. Details here
Just up the road near Northallerton are this years Autograss National Championships. 1/4 mile dirt oval (no grass), hundreds of races, plenty of crashes, probably the best spectator motorsport that nobody's heard of. A bewildering number of different classes but the best action is usually from the unlimited class 7 saloons, 2 late model Hayabusa engines and the odd V8 in tiny bodyshells. This sort of thing...
