Gallery 2
In no particular order, photographs of people, bikes and places.  Click to get the bigger picture:

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Sammy Miller, on AJS.
coaches.jpg (27164 bytes) Seen at Wookey Hole.  No further comment required?
oldbmw.jpg (27374 bytes) Not your 'ordinary' BMW.
wwf.jpg (35016 bytes) In yellow tabards, left to right, Brian White, Steve Evans & Gil Fielden, marshals during WWF cycle ride.  
knmv.jpg (22460 bytes) Instructor from the KNMV, the Royal Dutch Motorcycle Club, demonstrating the stability of a motorcycle, and how body movement alone has little steering effect.  (picture KNMV)
belfast1.jpg (12852 bytes)  HMS Belfast.  A battleship, a   B I G  thing, bigger than most bikes.  
belfast2.jpg (20181 bytes) Ever wondered why drivers don't see you?  Well, this is a battleship decorated with nice stripes - just like your riding suit? - to make it invisible!
tank1.jpg (30921 bytes) Or how about this - a bloomin' girt-great tank, with its outline broken up by an 'urban' camo. paint scheme.

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You go away and leave it for five minutes, and some joker bolts an engine into your bicycle . . .   

Brian White, with an early 'motorcycle'.  (picture: Brian White)

 . . . All right, you probably want to know:  It's a 1902 Centaur, with 211cc Minerva engine which runs on lighter fuel!

trl.jpg (103274 bytes) Here's an 'arty' one for you, taken at the TRL a few years ago.
bodylean.jpg (67263 bytes) How 'not to do it':  "If I really lean my shoulders over it's bound to turn!"
headturn.jpg (51252 bytes) How 'to do it':  "If I turn my head and relax!"  Yes, he's on a different bike, but these photos were only half an hour apart - and the sports 1100 'should' be more difficult to ride!
eco.jpg (66296 bytes) The Ecomobile; A Swiss, 'K'-bike-based, fully-enclosed, 12 feet long creation, designed using competition glider technology, by:
arnold.jpg (61311 bytes) Arnold Wagner!  Seen here at the FIM Experienced Rider Training symposium in Luxexmbourg.
 Gallery 3, now under way!
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