PUB TALK

PUB recently attended the Valkyrie Bike Night (Tuesdays from 6pm on Market Square, Evesham WR11 4RW), on the PUB Vincent. This was not a local event but, unfortunately, the result of being in the area for the funeral of ‘Sparky’ during the day. Great niece (or something like that) had been a friend and neighbour of his, and really wanted to join the cortege ride – but Mum and Grandad (brother Francis) were less than keen on her jumping on the back of a relative stranger. So PUB had volunteered to do the job if no better offer turned up, which it didn’t.

However a couple of weeks earlier PUB was quite ill, indeed having to cry off another meeting. A test discounted the dreaded Covid (although tests are not foolproof) and as the date approached she was OK to go out, but less than 100%. Could she even manage the PUB Vincent? A phonecall confirmed that Jodie would be happy with a scruffy Suzuki, but Francis remembers PUB senior riding the Vincent to work in Evesham and would surely prefer it.

Rising early on the day, the bike was hauled out and started up (these are the hardest bits, and if all had not gone well she had time to swap to the button start scruffy Suzuki). The ride to the Evesham meeting point was quicker than expected – being a working day PUB had expected traffic issues at