Motorcycle Museum Fire?

Anyone listening to the radio hear any news about this? Someone's just
phoned to say the traffic around the NEC is a nightmare (worse than
normal). There's a big plume of black smoke visible here from that
general direction.

Bummer!

 

Just watched it on TV. They reckon they've saved about 400 bikes /

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About a third of it destroyed :-(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/3114410.stm

Update: Now saying _most_ of it destroyed

ernest

 

Wotcha

I must agree - but at least get the bikes out first ;-)

 

Wotcha.

By the look of the place, they haven't invested in anything over the last 15
years or so.
They have made no effort at all to display and arrange the bikes in any
particular order, it's
more like a glorified garage than a museum. The "new" exhibits they had
were just placed behind
existing bikes with no apparent order.
It seems the place ran more as a venue for weekend markets and the odd
computer fair rather than
a museum dedicated to motorcycles. Still a bloody shame it's gone up in
smoke though.

 

And the sequel , "When Brummies **** off"
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Drove back home passing within a mile or so of there, heavy smoke with a
kind of eerie orange glow about it and the smell of burning rubber in
the air.

 

Sounds like you practicing your burnouts

 

A bit like Santa Pod, then.

 

nice

 

Yeah, I saw it going home last night as I come off the M42 at the A45
junction where the museum is.

I wish I hadn't put off going there for so long now.

 

Ben fascinated us all by saying...

Just take a trip to any bike breakers if you want to look at old knackers

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It was just a bunch of Shite Old British Bikes.

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The National Museum of Gixer Thous.

Nice.


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Going from well screwed together to well screwed, then well melted
together.

 

And all that leaking oil must have fanned the flames.

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Nah, all the oil leaked out of those museum wrecks years ago ;-)