Motorcycle Live 2025 takes place 15-23 November at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham – and ride leader Roger Taylor proposes a mid-week ride there (weekends are hellishly busy!). To whet your appetites, Roger has provided the following tentative description

Following a 9:20am briefing, we’ll leave promptly from Caxton Gibbet at 9.30am. The ride will take us west, and will avoid main roads as much as possible. A breakfast stop at the Pilots Mess Café on Sywell Aerodrome is part of the itinerary: suitably refreshed we’ll continue westwards on a combination of A- & B- roads (with a few C-roads thrown in at no extra charge!)
Parking at the NEC is free for motorcycles, but please note that participants are strongly advised to pre-book their tickets for entry to the exhibition
We’ll depart the NEC at 4pm, and as it will be dark the journey home will be on the M6 and A14 with a possible coffee stop along the way to warm us up

Roger’s ride to the NEC is open to full Members and Associates who are confident riding after dark. A GPX of the route will be made available 2 days prior to departure (allowing Roger to make last-minute changes according to the weather forecast and roadworks)
The ride will be limited to a maximum of 10 participants