Motorbike fans on Thanet Council will be donning leathers and raising handlebars to welcome up to 30,000 bikes to Margate on May 25.

The town will be hosting a spectacular rally as bikers from the Ace Cafe Club visit for the bank holiday weekend.

They are expected to attend from all over the UK with many from Europe.

Among the welcoming committee will be council bikers including leader Cllr Sandy Ezekiel and his wife Cheryl, Cllr Alasdair Bruce, Cllr Simon Moores and Cllr Simon Brown.

The Ace Cafe on the North Circular Road was famous as a meeting place for rockers during the 50s and 60s.

Cllr Bruce said: “The Ace Cafe days of hard core rockers have faded somewhat and today you are more likely to bump into lawyers or dentists on a Harley at one of its gatherings. Something they tell me about growing old disgracefully!”

For the full story, see the Thanet Extra, out on Wednesday May 21.