Motorcycles in Ramsgate, watercolour painting in Ramsgate and Canterbury, photos and wosisnames

I started the day painting the Royal Temple Yacht club from The Oak Hotel in Ramsgate

  Like other things this was disappointingly small, if you click on it it will enlarge and you get a sort of Only Cow Girls thumb and a picture that may look worse as it will bigger than it is.

 On to Ramsgate Rev-up, I guess like me you notice lots of signs on roundabouts advertising classic vehicle events, but not for this one – frankly it doesn’t need them.
 

 The Indian Model H racing motorcycle would I guess date from date from around 1915 and would be capable speeds in excess of 100 mph, as it is a racing model it obviously has no brakes.

I took quite a few pictures at this event, they are a bit obsessive, I have owned and ridden quite a few motorcycles over the years and lusted after quite a few more.

Anyway here is the link to the photos, you can download the full definition versions and as far as I’m concerned do what you want with them https://goo.gl/photos/t9HZx5CRXFh9uYiT7

On to Canterbury this afternoon 

 I did a bit more to my watercolour from Chocolate Cafe 

bought some books for my bookshop and wound up having tea at Tea Curzon

If you can't get enough of this sort of bike click on the link at the bottom of the post that says Ramsgate Motorcycle Sprint 

Ramsgate Sprint Revival Cancelled

The 2016 Ramsgate Sprint Revival, scheduled for 13-14 August, has been cancelled due to increased activity at the Port of Ramsgate. Following the success of new car imports and the possibility of additional port activity, Thanet District Council has been unable to guarantee use of the port for a pit area as in 2015.

Plans to run the event again in 2016 were shelved back in November 2015 when Thanet District Council confirmed land hire for Government Acre had been granted to a long standing event, Lark in the Park. Following intervention by the Leader of the Council, a meeting was arranged in February between organisers of Lark in the Park, Ramsgate Sprint Revival and TDC when agreement was reached for the two events to share Government Acre.

Just two weeks later it was confirmed that business at the Port of Ramsgate was increasing and it was not possible to guarantee space for a pit area for the sprint bikes and their support vehicles. Initially it was agreed with TDC that Military Road outside the port could be used for this purpose but subsequently sprint organisers were told that this could only be guaranteed at six weeks’ notice.

Organisers of Ramsgate Sprint Revival would like to apologise for any inconvenience which has been caused by this outcome. A spokesperson for the sprint said “We have worked hard behind the scenes for a bigger and better event in 2016 but without guaranteed space for the motorcycles we cannot go ahead. Obviously the port must take priority and if TDC requires the space we have to accept that.”

Pictures of last year’s sprint 

http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/a-few-more-photos-of-ramsgate.html  

and

http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/a-few-photos-of-ramsgate-motorcycle.html

 

Ramsgate Sprint Revival, 13 - 14 August 2016 now going to happen

The organisers of Ramsgate Sprint Revival and Lark in the Park are celebrating all that is good in the community.

Ramsgate Sprint Revival and Lark in the Park have joined forces to create a spectacular free event for the community at Government Acre, Ramsgate during August 2016.

Lark in the Park will be open to the public from Thursday 11th August to Sunday 21st,
On the weekend of Saturday 13th August and Sunday 14th August they will be joined by the Ramsgate Sprint Revival. Both will have their own brand of entertainment and fun which will be free to all attending.

Both organisers are excited about this collaboration which will bring communities together.

Pictures of last year’s sprint http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/a-few-more-photos-of-ramsgate.html

http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/a-few-photos-of-ramsgate-motorcycle.html

A few more photos of The Ramsgate Motorcycle Sprint event this weekend

All the photos should expand if clicked on compulsively. If you have a motorcycle between 50 and 100 years old, you can put it in a museum, you can polish it a lot or you can tune it up, modify it, put a cocktail of interesting fuel in it and see how fast it will go.  Oh blogger some seem to have published big