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Wolfie’s Bar

Skegness is my favourite rally. It’s local, being only 100 miles from home, and the only one I regularly go to nowadays. In 1982 it was the closing rally of the season for us. Learning from the mistakes of our earlier rallies, we met in a car park rather than the pub, and left straight after work. Therefore we rode in daylight, and sober. We also all had enough money for a B&B, so no more sleeping rough. Being early also meant we had a crowd of locals watching us as we rode out, we were celebrities.

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