Alien’s Speed Dreams

Last summer our good friend Alien and his mates achieved their objective of racing an old Triumph at the Bonneville Salt Flats. That Triumph had belonged to their old friend Mike Page, who sadly died suddenly of a heart attack. He’d planned to restore the bike but had never completed the job so they decided to do it in his honour and take the bike to Bonneville where they would scatter his ashes.

The story was taken up by the BBC who were filming other British Teams taking bikes to the Salt Flats and the resulting two episodes were aired on BBC2 at 10pm on Sunday 6th and 13th Jan.

We watched the first show tonight and it was absolutely brilliant: well constructed, funny, interesting and moving, all in one. It’s always weird seeing friends on TV, but great at the same time, and the Mike Page team were great, as were the other crazy characters.