Silsden Sewer Rats Easter Egg Run 2012

I quite like going to these motorcycle events, there is something about a mass ride out of bikes, the noise, the petrol fumes and all that glinting chrome work. The riders leave Silsden on this annual event to deliver Easter eggs to the children's ward of a local hospital and raise a little money for charity on the way, so it's all in a good cause.

Silsden Sewer Rats - Easter Egg Run

     I went along to an Easter Egg run organised by the Silsden Sewer Rats motorcycle club today.  The club members gather in a car park in Silsden before riding out to nearby Airedale Hospital with Easter eggs and donations for the children's ward.  There were quite a few machines on the car park with custom paintwork, sweeping exhaust pipes, and acres of chrome, almost mobile sculptures you could say.  If you get the impression that I like these machines, I do, and then there's the noise they make...