Five gallant Busy Bee-ers gathered at Otterspool Way to set off for far off Duxford and two more joined us at the Silver Ball.
We took the scenic route to the A10 via Hatfield Tunnel, where the hooligans amongst us reveled in the sound of their Harleys echoing off the walls of the tunnel, on to Hertford, the back road to Bengeo and Wadesmill to the A10.
A straight run to the Silver Ball at Reed, near Royston. Disaster struck! The Silver Ball cafe was shut for two days. No number two breakfast or even a cup of tea! We stood around trying to think of somewhere to go but could not come up with any suggestions. We pressed on thinking we may see somewhere in Royston but no luck. We stopped at a lay-by and decided to carry on to Duxford.
The traffic was unusually light and we were directed around the M11 roundabout into the top end of the museum. We stopped at the ticket booths where one member on a Triumph Sprint, who shall be nameless, gave the poor woman in the booth such a sob story that she let him pay just the disabled persons rate! We parked on a large area of hard standing and went off having made some arrangements to possibly get together for the flying display. The weather forecast had been for rain later in the day and I think that affected the numbers. Perhaps people had chosen to go on the Saturday. There certainly was not the atmosphere of previous shows. We had some light rain but the flying display started on time. There were some aircraft not seen before including some replica WW 1 bi-planes which were slow and sedate in complete contrast with what was to follow. The Bristol Blenheim was another plane making its debut.
The clouds were getting lower and by four p.m. the two planes doing close formation aerobatics were disappearing into the clouds at the tops of their loops. We agreed we had probably seen the best of the display and decided to make for home. We rode through some light rain on our way to the A1M but otherwise the journey home was uneventful
Laurie
A beautiful morning for a ride out, set off early to meet Big Dave and Sam at Mc Donald’s in Uxbridge for a coffee.
Brian Watts turned up in his car to see us off. Unfortunately, he had hurt his ankle and as a result he is unable to ride.
After a good old gossip before leaving him to meet the rest of the gang at Denham. Steve, Bob, Len, Ray and Bill we’re wait for us. Not so many of us this year as lot of our gang had opted to go to Duxford VE-Day Air show instead which is very poplar and happened to be on the same day.
We had a very leisurely run to Windsor, the only person to go wrong was Brian (luckily) no one followed and we soon caught up with the rest of the gang.
Max turned up just after us so first stop was to the Pub for refreshments. There was no Barbecue this year but had plenty of choice on the menu. The weather was very kind to us as we had no rain. The Cellar run was not as big as it has been in the past, but there were still plenty of bikes and old faces to see and lots to talk about. About 2:30 few dark clouds appeared so a few of us decide to go down to the river and have photos taken outside the cellar where the bikers use to go in the 60’s. Before going to our favourite café for a coffee (in my case an ice cream). It was lovely just to sit and watch the world go by. Suddenly a few drops of rain made us decide it was time to go home.
A great day to be had by us all.
Pat
