Then, one evening at another do, Ken, the fine landlord of the Selsey Arms at Coolham, near Horsham, suggested doing it at his place, and so a plan was made. Ken, being a long-term biker, welcomes bikes, and has designated parking spaces for ‘em, and the Selsey Arms’s also well known for its food – his burgers, sourced from a local butcher, were superb.
While my actual birthday’s in April, we picked a date in May (in case of bad weather), and this was fortuitous given the awfully wet start to the year, which definitely kept us on our toes all week. Come Saturday, though, we were blessed with the first warm, sun-filled day of the year.
As the sun came out, so did the bikes, and there were already…