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  • The Classic MotorCycle

    With due reverence…

    Jul 03, 2019 3 minutes
    Words and photographs: ALAN TURNER

    On Sunday, May 5, around three dozen prewar solos and sidecar outfits lined up in the car park of St Barnabas’ Church in Bexhill, Sussex for the Ixion Run.

    The occasion is becoming established as a regular outing for those willing to follow a route of around 40 miles that offers a suitably relaxing ride for bikes (and, in some cases, also riders) of a certain age.

    The significance of St Barnabas’ Church was that for 14 years the vicar was the Canon Basil H. Davies, known magazine started in 1903 and finished an amazing 58 years later, in 1961.

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