It was the black duffels strapped on to the back of bikes that did it. Ride to any biking event and you tend to spot other participants as you get closer. Heading for an adventure bike weekend and it’ll be GSs with aluminium panniers; going to a track day it’s the sports bikes with riders in matching leathers; but this time it was the individually numbered black canvas Malle duffel bags we’d all been sent that became the defining feature on the M5 as we all headed for Lands End.
As we got closer to the meet up near Lizard Point, we’d grown into a group of about a dozen riders who’d never met, other than a helmet nod, but had simply morphed together with a common purpose as the roads got smaller and other traffic thinned out. We rolled into the farmyard meet point, parked up and as bikers worldwide do, started chatting
