Outriders - Manchester Road

Police outriders having a quick chat before escorting the Olympic torch through the streets of Bradford at the torch carrying ceremony last Sunday.

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.

Biker Protest - Eyre Square, Galway

I'm a long way from home for this post, Southern Ireland in fact. I was visiting relatives there at the weekend and came across this biker protest in Eyre Square, Galway. The bikers, around a hundred of them, were protesting against new EU safety regulations for motorcycles which the bikers feel will affect the enjoyment of their hobby. The protesters are pictured here leaving Eyre Square and heading for Athlone.

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...

Jalhandar to Amritsar in half an hour

     I think you could probably get from Jalhandar to Amritsar in half an hour on one of these.  This chap was posing on a police motorcycle while his friend took a picture on a mobile phone, I sneaked in and poached the shot.