A Posh Night on the Kings Road

Here’s an extra little seasonal bonus. A week ago The Rider’s Digest joined Brough CEO Mark Upham and a host of motorcycling luminaries for the classic marque’s Christmas Beano at his brother Matthew’s antique shop in London’s ever so trendy Kings Road.

Attractions – aside from the sparkling company, the constantly refilled wine glasses and the steady stream of canapés – included their semi-streamlined Bonneville record breaker and their all new for 2014 Brough Superior SS100.

They say that a picture paints a thousand words so rather than waste any more on descriptions, we’ll leave it to these thirty-odd images to tell the tale.

This article first appeared ten years ago in issue 191 of The Rider’s Digest. We are republishing it today in memory of Matthew Upham who is missing, assumed dead after he went into the sea in Budleigh Salterton on Christmas Day to rescue a woman who had got into trouble.