Putin lauds motorcycles – again
The Russian prime minister takes centre stage at a bike festival, hailing motorcycles as an integral part of WW II historyIs there a current world leader who loves his motorcycles more than Russian prime minister Vladamir Putin?
The former KGB agent and the Russian Federation’s second president – after the inimitable Boris Yeltsin, who would have been too full of vodka to ride a motorcycle properly -- has just attended a bike festival in the Black Sea resort city of Novorossiysk, where he said that the locale’s World War II history was inextricably linked to motorcycles, which he said were used to “carry children away” from the danger of Nazi attack.
Putin was met at the festival by the leader of the Night Wolves bike group – a massive organisation in Russia and parts of Europe -- before mounting a Harley-Davidson trike to head a convoy of bikers.
This was Putin’s third meeting with the Night Wolves in as many years, and he’s also revered in Russia by a number of other motorcycling organisations.
And our tip is that Putin will be a keen spectator when the Superbike World Championship heads to Russia in 2012, or 2013 at the latest.
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