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The story about that bike

Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry takes his teddy bear and childhood hero, Alan Measles, across Bavaria on a highly decorated Kenilworth AM1 motorcycle.

Grayson spent a troubled childhood in suburban Essex creating a fantasy life where he fought off the brutish invading Germans, under the command of his teddy bear Alan Measles, a plucky wartime Resistance leader who became his hero, a sort of personal God and the embodiment of everything that was good about masculinity.

Now Grayson Perry has commissioned a highly decorative Kenilworth AM1 motorcycle, with a shrine on the back for his teddy bear, whose inaugural voyage, Ten Days of Alan, takes them across Bavaria, on a mission of reconciliation with their old enemies.

Starting out from their hometown of Chelmsford, Grayson and Alan Measles' journey takes in the 1920s Nurburgring racetrack and religious icons like the Isenheim Altar by Matthias Grunewald and the church in Wies, where a peasant saw tears in the eyes of a flagellated Christ figure in 1738. They visit Mad King Ludwig's fantastically Rococo Schloss Neuschwanstein where much of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was filmed,the Steiff Teddy bear factory in Giengen and end up in Backnang, Chelmsford's twin town, to hand over a message of goodwill to the local Mayor.

As they go, Grayson and Alan reflect on the nature of art and pilgrimage, shared memories of childhood and the speed of their motorbike on Tyrolean mountain passes. Come sunshine ? Or rain.

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Well played sir.Now if you'll excuese me I gotta do some shots to forget that one. Thanks :shots:

Gotta do shots to forget that one......

Or get shots from the Doctor that you forgot to get?

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I don't know about that.....I think it looks like it would fit you perfect.:lol:

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Nope to forget the image

Lol...I gotcha. Was a joke but would have made more sense in person. I meant the picture reminded you to get shots as in "you'd need to get some antibiotics after riding that". Hahaha. Not funny if you have to explain it lol

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I don't know about that.....I think it looks like it would fit you perfect.:lol:

Oh yes, I live for pastels.

Lovely blue and pink and green.

That's why my bike is flat black and dirty...

I'll meet half way, maybe I'll add some purty LED lights.

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English people are the gayest. :D

Well... You know that guy is a transvestite right? And you know what he used to be boy Georges choufer(however it's spelled) right? Oh also the thing on the back of his bike is a shrine for his teddy bears spirit...

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