So Guy, Phil and I popped over to Verona for the Bike Expo.
Events conspired to try and keep Phil away - but he battled the train fires at Victoria, the broken down coach, the replacement coach's accident, the go-slow Gatwick Express, the officious official at Gatwick who wouldn't let him check his bag in, the transfer of his stuff to the replacement Sainsbury's carrier bag, and finally the 5,000 metre sprint to the gate!
We reacquainted ourselves with the Aperol spritz to get over the stress.
There were bikes galore, from the pretty cool...
To the pretty ridiculous.
There were some top Vespas and three-wheeled Apes.
Giant bike.
Giant Phil.
Mr Martini had a circus fairground theme, complete with candy floss machine.
Tremendous rear end on this thing!
Gary and Dave had a shindig at Mr Martini's place.
Gary desperately battling Dave to get 'Treat her right' on the deck.
Here's the resulting full-on Roy Head out of body experience.
A smartly dressed Italian completely oblivious to the top air-guitar action right next to him.
Rolf trying Mr Miyagi's Crane move on an unimpressed Guy.
Spot the friendly foreigners.
I think Angelo loves me, or it could have been the 9.3% Tennants we were drinking!
Guy resting his eyes, I'm sure it had nothing to do with Fiddy's top tales.
Ciao.
Nice post and good memories. Does anyone want to see photos of the Nevada Desert?
I don't know if you're free on March 23, but we're having a launch in Bury St Edmunds, Dave's band the Stags are playing, DJs, drinks and a secret after-party if you deserve a weekend away. EMail me for more details at dirt at Sideburnmagazine.com
Gary
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