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2-4-4-2 wheels and weekends; Daventry's 2016 Motorcycle Festival

6/11/2016

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Picture2016 Daventry Motorcycle Festival
Over the last few weeks my blog posts have been particularly transport themed – my usual topical randomness usurped by a surprising degree of consistency.  

Motorbikes and motorcars and motorcars… 

…and motorbikes because today saw the Daventry Motorcycle Festival take place. I had to go of course, the fact that similar types of outing have recently occurred was not a barrier to further wheeled excitement. 

Though I’ll admit that I went on my own (again) because my vehicular fascination is not shared by my nearest and dearest. Not that that bothers me very much if I am honest - dragging Mrs B. or my daughter around an event like today’s would be miserable for us all. 

However, I’ll be honest, it’s a shame that my lad isn’t bothered either. Though afterwards, I appreciated that he pretended to be interested in the 130 photographs that I actively encouraged him to view.

Anyway, back to the event. Since I launched this site in 2011, the annual Dav. motorcycle event has had a write-up - and this year’s was equally deserving.

Why not read the previous reviews – all take slightly different perspectives as I try not to write the same article year after year.  

2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 

The format for the 2016 festival followed that established in previous years e.g. the streets in use, the route of the ride in, the event timings. Fortunately the weather today was bright and warm (unlike in 2015) and the turnout of riders was much greater than last year. The ride-in arrived at approximately 10am and that kicked the event off. 

I enjoyed the spectacle of Daventry coming to life – people and machines were all over the place. The town centre had a liveliness about it that it lacks for the vast majority of the year and I congratulate the organisers and the local council for making it happen.

I share a small selection my photos below. 

For those of you that like my Forest Gump “life is like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re going to get” unstructured approach to blog content, I’d like to be able to confirm that normal service will resume shortly. 

But there’s an American car show next weekend that I fancy going to.

​Expect 24424.

Click on any of the images below to enlarge.

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