10,000 motorcyclist on M40 today?

[mrmcfister]

Huge load of bikers today on the move about 11.00 .Anyone know what it was about?

[colonel]

Yes! A run of [officially] 500 motorcyclists from Hopwood Park Services, Worcs[ M42] to Bourton -on-the-Water, Gloucs. to raise money for a cancer charity in memory of a fellow biker who died in the last 12 months.

You must have been in Warwicks. on the M40 then?

[mrmcfister]

Yep,got stuck on an island while you were waved through.Very impressive though.Seemed more like 3 or 4000 to me! With the missis and two kids who got out and had a look.............

[colonel]

I wasn't there! Heard about it on BBC Midlands Today!

I was in Hereford, hacktually...