InsureYourMotor.com ‘hogs’ the limelight on Harley Davidson Long Ride Home and Freedom Tour

Leading UK online motor insurance specialist InsureYourMotor.com ‘hogged’ the limelight last weekend when members of the company joined in the action on the ‘Long Ride Home’ Freedom Tour to celebrate 100 years of Harley Davidson. Over 150 Harley Davidson motorcycles escorted a twelve foot high, 3 tonne bronze replica of a ‘Fat Boy’, one of Harley’s most popular motorcycles. The statue was escorted from the foundry in Braintree Essex, where it was cast, to the Ace Café on London’s North Circular, the home for over 50 years, of motorcycle and motor enthusiasts. From the Ace Café, the bronze statue was then transported under police escort through the streets of London to the Tate Modern gallery on the South Bank of the Thames. Over 150 Harley Davidson motorcycle enthusiasts from all over Britain escorted the articulated lorry that transported the bronze statue. InsureYourMotor.com was one of the main sponsors of the event and chose to take part in the ride, not on a Harley Davidson, but, wait for it…on a motorised desk! Yes, your eyes are not failing you. The ‘wacky’ vehicle caused a real stir as it travelled through the streets of London. The motorised desk seats three passengers around a meeting table whilst the driver sits in the driving seat, steering with a computer keyboard and gauging his instruments, which are mounted in the briefcase on the desk surface. The final destination on ‘leg one’ was the Tate Modern gallery on London’s South Bank, where a Press conference was arranged. The press conference over, the bronze was then transported back to the Ace Café, after which it was delivered to Southampton Docks, bound for the USA. When it lands in Baltimore it will be escorted by an even larger contingent of motorcyclists through Washington D.C, Harrisburg, Buffalo, Dearport and Michigan, to its final resting place in Milwaukee the home, for 100 years, to Harley Davidson.