IN reply to Eileen Lunn (You Say, September 5), during the Slip days, we bikers counted among our friends her daughter Joy.

So we were aware that even during those days we were not Mrs Lunn's cup of tea.

However, I must strongly protest at Mrs Lunn apparently implying that somehow the motorcycle gangs who frequented the Slip in the 1950s were responsible for the disappearance of the lifebelts and vandalism.

Of the "bikers" who went down the Slip, among other places, we may have been high-spirited, but hardly anyone drank alcohol, or smoked cigarettes.

No one used drugs, and we were never involved in any sort of violence.

Also, the riding of our motorbikes was usually after the families who used the Slip had gone home.

Of these lads, most went on to serve their National Service, and the girls went into responsible occupations.

Of course, if Mrs Lunn needs further confirmation of our behaviour in those days, perhaps she could ask Joy.

BRIAN HUNT, Worcester.