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Little weekend rides, in addition to the ‘shopping runs’ have kept PUB on two wheels for very modest mileages, but still fairly lacking in real destinations, and she does like to have a real destination, otherwise every road junction brings indecision about which way to turn.

August is the time when Evenley village in Northamptonshire host their ‘Bill Lacey’ gathering to celebrate the famous Brooklands exponent and tuner. It is not the easiest of events to cancel, because so many of the attendees have no club affiliations and ‘just know’ that it is the place to go in early August. Most clubs did indeed cancel their usual organised club runs to the venue, but word was that it would take place anyway, and the local pub would be putting on its usual outside barbecue. Since there is a spacious central village green, PUB decided to go, taking her own

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