Will it be one, or not…....
We regularly wrestle with that question and usually it isn't, no motorcycle I mean. This one from Serbia in the annual "Joy of Europe" issue is one of them. We received this stamp with attached label from our fellow theme club in Germany, Bicyclestamps.de.
The issue consists of nine stamps with the same image, and seven labels with different children's drawings.

Although there are bicycles that can easily transport four people, this one seems to me to be a motorcycle. With some imagination you can recognize a Böhmerland in it, and in children's eyes……

This is one!!
Also this year (2021) the issue in the "Joy of Europe" series is one of them.
On September 30 2021 another sheet of eight stamps and seven labels with children's drawings was issued. On the leftmost label now a beautiful drawing of a scooter rider in the dark with a flower arrangement on the back. Unfortunately no stamp, but together with..... still good to get a place in the collection.

Friday the 13th
Every Friday the 13th the Canadian town of Port Dover, Ontario, is overrun by motorcycle freaks. What started in 1981 as an informal gathering of friends in a local bar has grown into an international rally. Thousands of motorcyclists from across Ontario and the United States make the pilgrimage to Port Dover every Friday the 13th.

The original story is simple: a group of friends plan to get together to visit what is now Angelo's of Dover, about 25 guys show up, it's a great time and the idea was born. Meet every Friday the 13th to party in Port Dover. The event's popularity grew every year and "the rest is history".

Although the Covid-19 pandemic has limited the Friday the 13th meeting in Port Dover, the community will remain strong and ride the "Friday the 13th" several more times.
It rivals the "Rolling Thunder Rally" in the USA for the title of the largest one-day motorcycle event in the world.

The disadvantage for the 13th is of course that it is not every month on a Friday, but only once a year. If the day falls in winter, there are only a few hundred participants. But when Friday the 13th falls in the summer, like in August 2010, the event draws more than 150,000 participants. In 2008, the rally nearly broke the Guinness Book of Records record set by the Republic of Texas (ROT) Biker Rally (then 135,000 paying participants) with 15,000 more participants, but Guinness only counted participants on one of the entry roads from Port Dover.

Total collectors
Now a few for the total collectors among us:

Malaysia
Malaysia Pos issued a series of 4 stamps on September 9, 2021 to honor the front fighters against Covid-19. Nothing of our interest on the stamps, but the FDC of the issue shows a postman on a motorcycle in the lower left of the illustration/vignette.

Singapore
Singapore has also honored the First Line Fighters on a series of eight stamps. On August 6, 2021, Singapore Post issued a series of ten stamps in honor of these fighters. One of the stamps unmistakably shows a motorcycle delivery man with a helmet.

Hans de Kloet

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