Durham Heifer / Chester Scooter Club Event Report and Pictures

Enjoy the pictures from the day -

The day started with dry weather with even bits of blue sky visible, so it was up and get ready and down to The Grosvenor in Handbridge for the 11am mass rideout over to Ade + Lisa's. There was an excellent turn out of scooters when I arrived and by 11-15am there must have been 90 scooters that left Handbridge for the rideout, which took the route down the Wrexham Road, along the A55 and off at Sainsbury's rounabout for the easy run down the A41 to Broxton.
Most of the scooters arrived at The Durham Heifer O.K. at around 12- noon, with only one or two minor breakdowns and one lad who had a puncture.
Ade + Lisa had worked very hard to make the pub very welcoming and they were soon hard at work cooking the burgers and hot dogs on the BBQ. The rear garden was well set out with loads of seating and there was plenty of covered areas ready for the inevitable rain that was to come later. The far side of the pub was set up for the trade stands and there were at least five different stands selling scooter parts and clothing, which was very impressive. The scooters just kept coming and coming and at it's busiest at about 1pm we estimated there were 150 scooters parked up around the pub.
The band 'Moses' arrived a little later than planned at about 1-45pm but soon got set up in the covered gazebo in the garden, the wait was well worth it as they soon got into playing their excellent covers of the Jam and Paul Weller and also played tracks from The Small Faces, The Who, Jet and others. The band really lifted the spirit of the crowd as the rain started to lash down, but it didn't deter Dave Buckley from his dance routine and he was soon joined by others happily dancing in the rain.
Chester Scooter Club would like to thank all the scooterists who made the effort to come and support this event, some travelling long distances from Liverpool, Southport, Stoke on Trent and North Wales, we hope you all enjoyed yourselves and were not too dissapointed that we didn't do any custom show or gave prizes for other categories, but as this was a first for us we just wanted to keep things simple and make sure people just relaxed and had a good time.
Also a big thank you must go out to Adrian and Lisa and family for having the bottle to host this event at The Durham Heifer, which is a wonderful venue with plenty of room and has great potential for further scooter events, thank you very much - roll on next year.