France: Motorcycle Torch Descent of Fecamp - Burn Baby, Burn

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France: Motorcycle Torch Descent of Fecamp - Burn Baby, Burn

<table cellspacing="0" align="left" border="0" width="110" cellpadding="5"><tr><td><div class="Pict"><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/motorbiker/newspics4/Fecamp-Descente-Moto-2013-09.jpg" width="100" height="61" title="Fecamp Descente Moto 2013 " alt="Fecamp Descente Moto 2013 " style="border:1px solid white;"></div></td></tr></table><table cellspacing="0" align="right" border="0" width="110" cellpadding="5"><tr><td><div class="Pict"><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/motorbiker/newspics4/Fecamp-Descente-Moto-2013-01.jpg" width="100" height="66" title="Fecamp Descente Moto 2013 " alt="Fecamp Descente Moto 2013 " style="border:1px solid white;"></div></td></tr></table>#Fecamp #Event #Motorcycles - Every year since 1972, a bunch of motorcycle riders come together in the coastal city of Fecamp (Normandy region of France) for some fun & games. The date is always the same, namely the day before the national holiday of France; Bastille Day - 14 July. On the 14th there are always parades, the biggest one in Paris, but all cities and bigger towns have their own versions. One of the biggest, and definitely loudest one, is the night before, and it is held in Fecamp.<br><br>

The idea, already in place in 1972, was to go down the enormous cliffs by motorcycle. The first few years there were a few dozen bikers, but this number steadily grew, reaching 1,000 motorcycles. Then there was a fatal accident in one of the descents, and the parade was interrupted for a few years, until 1980 when some 50 odd bikers decided to start it up again, despite the local authorities forbidding the event. <br><br>

The biker groups managed to continue the illegal event until 1986, when it got stopped by the authorities again (it is illegal to have fun in France...). In 1992 a different organization took the event in hands, and started organizing a real event.......... <br><br>

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