T
hrottle Roll, which is now in
its third year, has become quite
a street party. Popping out from
Sydenham train station with my
partner Amy, we could hear the bands
playing and smell the street stall food
being served from various mobile
contraptions. The venue is perfect
for a motorcycle event of this nature.
Railway Parade which is just down
the slip road from Sydenham railway
station, offers plenty of space and
a wall which fronts a
scaffold that displays
an array of chopped up
bikes from all makes and
models on three levels.
The café racer scene
has become one of the
biggest growing markets
to hit the industry and has brought
into it a new generation of bikers that
see motorcycles as part of a fashion
statement, just as the mods and theBIGGER, BETTER AND A DAMN GOOD TIME
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THROTTLE
ROLL 2016
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early sixties. Anyone who has not seen
the movie Quadrophenia should do so
and will understand the whole feeling