IOW DON’T STOP THE CARNIVAL

Last year I gave the Isle of Wight Rally a miss. There’s no doubt that it’s the largest Scooter Rally in the UK and quite possibly the world, but it’s also the most commercial. I’d grown tired of its small wheeled excess, but sometimes it takes a break to realise just what a gem it is. It was obvious on the journey down that the weather forecast was, for once, going to be spot on. The further south I rode, each petroleum stop saw another baselayer removed and by the time I was filtering along a gridlocked M25 my summer