Spring Run (March 2025)

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Spring Run (March 2025)

Posted on 3rd April 2025
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Spring Run 23rd March started at Nether Stowey Church Centre with 24 bikes signing on.but where are the true vintage bikes
(9 British , 6 Japanese, 6 German , 2 Italian and 1 from India)
Weather turned out ok with some sunshine and few light showers
A 70 mile ride across Exmoor with a Coffee Stop by the river in the
picturesque village of Dulverton.
The run finished at Quantock Lakes Restaurant with 14 people sitting down
for Sunday Lunch.
Thanks to Jackie Hellier for the Tea and Coffee at the start.
(All money raised will be donated to the Musgrove Leukaemic Group Somerset)

 

Kevin Hellier.

(Picture credits Phil and Kevin!)

 

 

At teh start of te run, a line up of parked motorcycles in front of a high hedge with a converted stone barn in the background - and some small groups of people in riding gear, chatting amnong themselves.
Assemby – a very clean BMW ‘K’ (and probably some very clean riders!)
The parked motorcycles and groups of riders from the other end of the line - eagle-eyes might spot a lady motorcyclist with a mug of tea or coffee!
Assembly – with hot drinks!
The line up of parked motorcycles in front of the hedge again but in this shot a large number of the chatting motorcyclists can be seen with mugs in their hands, or to their lips...!
Assembly – with a lot more tea-drinking!
A black BMW motorcycle from the 1950s and a later (1970s) white BMW motrocycle and sidecar parked in front of a high hedge. The lady rider is perched on the saddle of the outfit, the male rider stands behind his earlier solo.
Assembly – a couple of Beamers!
Parked motorcycles lined up in front of the hedge stretching back to the stone barn and other buildings in the background. Closest to the camera a black BMW solo with a male standing behind and a white BMW sidecar outfit with a female rider seated on it, both are grinning at another male walking past, obviously exchanging some banter!
Assembly – Beamers, that’s more like it!
Motorcyclists in a village street with whitewashed houses behing them, two machines are ahead of several others as they pull off the main road to park up.
Coffee-stop arrival – Ariel twin with AJS twin behind
Several motorcyclists riding into a parking area, a village street with whitewashed houses and a pub forecourt with tubs of flowers behind them.
Coffee-stop arrival – AJS twin and Ariel single
Five motorcyclists stopped in the road and preparing to park, prominent a red and blue Ariel single and a Honda Silver Wing with a windscreen and panniers.
Coffee-stop arrival – Honda and Ariel….
Motorcyclists 'parking up' at the lunch stop, with a rider on a white BMW 'K' series machine prominent.
Coffee-stop arrival – BMW ‘K’…
Parked motorcycles with their riders 'socialising' and in the foreground a big pot of spring flowers.
Coffee-stop spring flowers!
A rider standing beside his motorcycle conentrates hard as he loads the route sheet into the handlebar-mounted sheet-reader.
Re-loading the route sheet requires concentration!
A line up of 9 motorcycles with riders variously standing and walking, in front of a modern green steel-clad building with a prominent 'John Deere' sign across it.
End of run park-up.
A modern green metal-clad building with two men and machines in front, facingthe camera and smiling for the portrait (one man has dark glasses on but there are no shadows from sunlight anywhere!)
End of run – organiser with trusty BSA and an equally trusty MZ!
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