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Air ambulance day

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:48 pm
by Darkstars
What an amazing day :D
Sunday we went to the Harwich Air ambulance fund raising day where once a year THOUSONDS of motorbikes decend on this sleepy Essex town in a massive convoy which takes an hour and a half to fill every street and available space possible in the whole town.
The whole place is buzing and it has the feel of the Isle of man TT races.
Every bike that comes in is greeted by the town mayor and piped in by bagpipes.
The main attraction (apart from the thousands of bikes) is the local open park which overlooks the sea and the port of Felixtowe where everyone collects for the live bands, singers, dancing girls trade stalls, helicopter flyovers, auctions and prize givings etc
It has to be said that a lot of alcohol, food and ice cream seemed to be consumed as all this was taking place :lol:
We took a walk down to the local school where the air ambulance had landed and all the kids could sit in and chat to the crew
Even if you are not so into your bikes as I am, you could not fail to be impressed by the turnout of people bikes and atmosphere, and the sun shone all day too.
The whole day raised more than

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:29 am
by jungle-jim
Superb tony. Looked like the weather was kind to you aswell. Nice gathering of machinery. No pikkies of you though? Which bike did you take?

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:39 am
by kev@tga
good pics fella i am in love with the new ducati 1098 reminds me of my little ducati 998 :cry:

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:04 am
by Ben
Excellent pics.

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:25 am
by Fast Eddy
Looked like a great day. Lots of lovely bikes. If only i was allowed one lol

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:44 pm
by Darkstars
jungle-jim wrote:Superb tony. Looked like the weather was kind to you aswell. Nice gathering of machinery. No pikkies of you though? Which bike did you take?
I spent last weekend on my Firestorm with the lads on a charity ride out and a b-road blast around Suffolk :twisted: so this weekend I took my wife and kids along so we actually went by car :roll:......I do'nt do side cars before anyone mentions it :lol:


Glad you like the pics every one :-D

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:23 pm
by rayman gtir
looks graet day, and for a worthwhile cause aswell.