If you’re afraid to ride your motorcycle again after winter, you are not alone. Every spring, riders quietly admit the same thing: “I’m not sure I feel as confident as I did last year.”

Your brain doesn’t like unknowns. After winter, everything feels slightly unfamiliar again — the throttle response, the lean angle, the traffic awareness, even the sound of the engine beneath you.

On the evening of Friday June 27, 2025, the quiet streets of Swindon, Wiltshire, transformed into a roaring boulevard of solidarity and hope. Hundreds, possibly thousands of bikes—roaring, shining, and wholeheartedly unified—descended upon the town to escort Josh, a young man who had endured relentless school bullying, to his prom.