To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video TV chef Si King has estimated 20,000 people will take part in Dave Day in honour of his ‘best friend’ the late Hairy Bikers star Dave Myers . Myers, who was one-half of the motorcycle-riding cooking duo with co-presenter Si for two decades, died in February aged 66 after suffering from cancer . He was diagnosed two years earlier in May 2022.
Dave Day has been organised in his home town of Barrow-in-Furness on Saturday to celebrate his life. The tributary day will include a motorcycle procession from London to Barrow-in-Furness, a music concert and a service of remembrance. The day will raise funds for The Institute of Cancer Research and children’s charity the NSPCC.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast from north-west London start point on Saturday morning, Si, 57 , said the event is a ‘celebration of my best friend that we’ve lost’ and it will be ‘very emotional’. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video The bikers set off at around 8am this morning with countless more expected to join along the 300-mile journey ending in his coastal home town. He continued: ‘You never know how these things are going to impact you, you know, it is a celebration of Dave’s life.
‘That’s why we’re here because he was so irritatingly positive all of the time. And we love him and that’s why we’re here.�.
