Thousands of bikers join ‘Dave Day’ ride in honour of Dave Myers | UK news

Hundreds of individuals had been anticipated to collect on Saturday to have fun “Dave Day” in honour of the late Furry Bikers star Dave Myers.

Myers, who was one half of the motorcycle-riding cooking duo together with Si King, died of most cancers in February on the age of 66.

The celebration of Myers’s life, which is fundraising for the Institute of Most cancers Analysis, London and the youngsters’s charity the NSPCC, features a bike procession from London to his dwelling city of Barrow-in-Furness, the place a live performance and a service of remembrance was being held.

Chatting with BBC Breakfast from London, King stated the day can be a “celebration of my greatest good friend that we’ve misplaced”.

Surrounded by a crowd of bikers donning Hawaiian shirts, King stated of the group collaborating: “All people’s obtained that beautiful Dave sartorial magnificence about them, ie dodgy shirt. A few of them have had them specifically printed, it’s exceptional.” He joked: “I imply, you wouldn’t purchase a secondhand automobile from them, would you?”

King stated an estimated 20,000 folks would participate in Dave Day. “It’s a celebration of my greatest good friend that we’ve misplaced. And, yeah, it’s, it’s very emotional. You by no means know the way this stuff are going to impression you, you recognize, it’s a celebration of Dave’s life. That’s why we’re right here, as a result of he was so irritatingly constructive the entire time. And we love him and that’s why we’re right here.”

Myers introduced in Might 2022 that he was receiving remedy for most cancers. He didn’t specify what sort he had been identified with, telling the Guardian that this was “as a result of all people then goes Googling, all people turns into an beginner physician … And I don’t wish to be judged.”

Saturday’s celebration was anticipated to attract members from overseas in addition to from throughout the UK, Myers’s widow Lili instructed BBC Breakfast. “We have now folks coming from everywhere in the nation. We have now folks coming from Texas, from Malaysia, from throughout Europe.”

She stated the occasion had helped her really feel she was not alone. “Oh, it’s endearing. It simply helps me undergo my means of grief. As a result of it simply makes me really feel that I’m not alone with all this,” she stated.

The occasion’s organiser, Jason Woodcock, instructed the programme that Dave Day took place after Lili Myers requested him to collect “a few bikers collectively for his funeral”, which he had performed. “They obtained to the funeral, had just a few beers as you’d do,” Woodcock stated. “After which the concept got here up through the dialog of ‘let’s do a memorial experience’.”

The occasion’s success meant there was not sufficient lodging in Barrow, and Woodcock stated the folks in Barrow had been “superb”, providing spare rooms and gardens for folks to camp in.

Dave Day follows a memorial bike experience organised in tribute to Myers in April, when bikers from throughout the UK rode in a convoy to pay tribute and lift funds for most cancers analysis. The experience, organised by the group Biker Escorts East Yorkshire, started in Beverley market in Yorkshire and moved by means of varied North Yorkshire cities, ending in Scarborough.