TV chef Si King said an estimated 20,000 people were set to take part in Dave Day, in honors of the late Hairy Bikers star Dave Meyers.
An estimated 20,000 bikers have taken part in “Dave Day” in honors of the late Hairy Bikers star Dave Meyers who died in February at the age of 66 after suffering from cancer.
Former Hairy Bikers co-star, TV chef Si King said an estimated 20,000 people were set to take part in the memorial ride which involved a motorcycle procession from London to Meyers’s hometown of Barrow-in-Furness.
Dave Day will raise funds for the Institute of Cancer Research, London, and children’s charity the NSPCC. King, speaking to BBC Breakfast on Saturday (June 8), said the event would be a “celebration of my best friend that we’ve lost” and that it would be “very emotional”.
Myers’s widow Lili Myers told BBC Breakfast: “We have people coming from all over the country. We have people coming from Texas, from Malaysia, from all over Europe. Oh, it’s endearing. It just helps me go through my process of grief. Because it just makes me feel that I’m not on my own with all this.”
She added: “He always cooked, that was his territory. I wasn’t allowed in the kitchen, just to clean the kitchen and, I tell you, he would cook for an hour, I will clean for two. He knew how to create a moment. That was his forte.”
Dave Day organizer, Jason Woodcock told BBC Breakfast: “I went to see him the day before he passed. Lili asked me for a couple of bikes together for his funeral, which I did. Some of the guys that are here today were there as well. They got to the funeral, had a few beers as you would do. And then the idea came up during the conversation of let’s do a memorial ride.” He added the people in Barrow have been “amazing”, offering spare rooms and gardens for people to camp in as there is no accommodation left.
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