Once upon a time this would have been the time for the Pioneer Run (as this is being written, not when The Reader is reading it). However, that run has been transposed to October these days, although for this year only the Sunbeam Club are holding their 100th year anniversary at Brooklands – to which PUB should have gone.
The plan would have been to trailer the veteran Triumph (now with barely tried out engine-shaft clutch) by car, but at sign-up time the car was lighting up its dash with ‘ESP’ and a little brake symbol. PUB doesn't really want a car with extra sensory perception (it actually stand for electronic stability program), which can in any case be switched off, but although she routinely rides old machines with derisory brakes they do not weigh around a ton nor hack along motorways at 60-70 mph. Brooklands is a long way for a day trip, and largely motorway, so it was a risk she didn't want to take.
In any case, by the time a garage had identified the problem as not too worrying (only affecting the ABS), it was too late to enter, and furthermore the M25 was closed between the Weybridge junctions which news reports threatened would clog everything up, which the
