One Sunny Sunday......
One sunny Sunday in May our man Darren, Keyos very own truck driving Gary Rhodes lookalike, threw a leg over his beautifully maintained Honda Fireblade and set off on a journey of ultimate self gratification. His destination was East Kirkby on the edge of the tranquil Lincolnshire Wolds and an 81000 square meter strip of
hallowed tarmac, where he would meet up with four other young prodigies' to have instruction from the "Guru of getin it up" Mr Jimmy Fireblade. 
Now for those of you wondering what the heck I'm blathering on about let me explain. To get signed off as a proper motorcycle riding God there are several elements in your tutoring that you need to master and one of them is wheelying, lofting the front, aviating, pawing the air, call it what you like but essentially its all about the ability to transform your motorcycle into a unicycle at will and under total control.
Nothing looks cooler, on the race track, speedway track, dirt track or any piece of private tarmac than a "wheelie". Even your granny would love to pull a wheelie.
The Jimmy Fireblade wheelie school is the only place to learn how to move one step closer to being that motorcycling God. Jimmy teaches you how to wheelie in a friendly and unassuming manner. He does it in a structured way that helps you build your skill level and your confidence to do something that all your senses say are telling you is totally wrong. Behind the skill and the knack is a science which Jimmy explains is just as important in helping you to get your head around everything.
So by the time we arrived Darren was getting well to grips with things, as were all of guys on what turned out to be the hottest day of the year so far.
I had been tasked with bringing home some action shots of the event for the Keyo hall of fame, but I've got to say I failed miserably. It was so difficult to get a photograph of Darren doing his stuff rather than 78 pictures of the place where he had been doing it 10 nano-seconds earlier. The camera was new, I had forgotten my glasses and my shorts were nipping me, that about sums up my excuses. (Really it was a lack of P & P)
The real point of the day was that it was a loyalty award for Darren's five years service with the company, so congratulations on that, and on giving your all on that day in May "well done". Lastly but not least, as the saying goes, a huge thank you to Jimmy and the team on behalf of the company, long may your endeavours be sanctioned in our nanny state! I've got a strange feeling that our paths will cross again in the not too distant future.
"Keep it UP"!!!!