£10m in Bikes ?

We were all up at 4:30 am to get ready for the race. 

Of course my phone was constantly buzzing with picture of the Vintage Car Rally though London I was supposed to be on. Ho Hum.

We parked up and walked over to the event start - past this 'car park' of bikes. We estimated about £10 million worth if James' was an average one. 

Here is his bike.

It has electric gears too - yes that's right no wires.

Anyway, having watched the swim and then parked up in the Bolton Octagon NEC Car park which we found was an old one with very tight ramps. Well it opened in 1975. We got round them OK and it looked like the car had a Halo to celebrate when we found a place to park.

The huge hire car was not so lucky and had a scrape. Looking it up later in 1975 the average width of cars was 5' 3" about 1.6m and now they are almost 6' - 1.8m. The Kia Sportive is over 2m if you include the mirrors.

After that we wandered around the town center most - which was much nicer with a touch of Bath but far more packed together. So six hours, twenty five minutes and forty seconds later it was all over. Well James and his mate Will had finished and we found our way out of the town, to lunch and thence headed off.

255 miles later, via Leeds and one quick stop we were home. A very long day.