THE VICTORIA BIKERS PUB
BIOGRAPHY

People that don't really know us may consider a bikers pub to be the last place on earth they would want to visit, or do business with, but bikers and visitors to The Vic nowadays come from all walks of life, from Surgeons to Lawyers, Actors to Nurses, we are a close knit community but always welcome strangers that are interested enough in finding out a littler more about the scene,
If your idea of going out is to feel comfortable in the surroundings, listen to some good live rock music, have a laugh and not have to watch your back, maybe The Vic is for you.
Generally The Vic is for the more mature clientele, we don't allow rowdy youngsters inside, bikers ‘n’ truckers and live music lovers is basically who we cater for, and they love the place due to the safety feel.
In the summer we have bikers from as far as Cornwall to Scotland, Anglesey to Hull, just to visit us, even abroad, we have had bikers from France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, purely to visit The Vic for a weekend of rock music, rideouts, and British hospitality, many come camping, some stop in local hotels and guest houses.
In 2007 we even had 2 bikers from New Zealand camping, they were touring the UK and taking in The Isle of Man TT races, but even that far away they had heard of The Vic in Coalville, so camped with us for 5 nights, bikers travelling to the TT races may stopover to break the journey up.
Monday nights are for 3 wheelers, that can be Reliant Robins, Bubble Cars, Trikes, anything with 3 wheels on.
We do many outside events and meets here at The Vic so listed below is an idea of what each night is about, we basically provide the facility for car park meetings, but weather does have a say in how many attend.
Wednesday night we host Classic Wheels Night, for really old cars and motorcycles, classic, vintage and veteran are all welcome, a Scooter meeting is held on the same night and inside we host a Northern Soul disco, which is very popular, scooterist’s come from around the midlands for this special night.
The Big One, is on a Thursday night, its our big bike night, an abundance of all sorts, from Harley Davidsons to Lambrettas, vintage to modern.
Entertainment inside with live rock bands Thurs to Sundays.
All good fun, The Vic has Two stages inside the pub and 2 outside, we have a marquee that completely fills the beer garden and so many times a year we put bands on inside and outside.
The Moxters of Rock is held once a year, always the nearest Saturday to mid-summers day, in 2011 it is on June 18th whereby 12 top tribute bands play, tickets are £25 each and has never failed to sell out.
We host the Hard Drive festival in July, usually the third weekend where 50 bands will perform over the two day period arriving from all over the UK and even abroad, we are running a new one to celebrate The Vics Birthday, , it is held on the first weekend in September, the first one in 2009 was her 160th since she opened her doors for the first time, let you work that one out.
The pub is gaining popularity on a daily basis, and has been on telly many times, featured on Holiday Showdown, Pub of the week on The Al Murray Show, Sept 12th 2008, been awarded top Bikers and Truckers pub by The Oldie Magazine,2008, Richard Ingram is the editor, Best bikers pub in 2006 by Motor Cycle News, featured in The Rough Pub Guide 2008 as one of Britains top 50 pubs, and written about at some point by every motorcycle publication in the country.
The pub burger van opens weekdays at 10am for breakfast and the pub itself opens at 10am for plated meals and sells alcohol from 11am, one of the best places around for an ‘’ENGLISH’’ meal, juicy Steaks, Gammons, fry ups, it acts as a café in the day and early evening weekdays, and a rock venue on weekend nights, and is the only pub in the UK that has Ministry of Transport approval to run a motorcycle training school from one of it car parks, Our Burger Van is also very popular on weekend evenings, as well as serving locally made award winning burgers and Hot Dogs till the early hours at weekends, most diners love our food, you ask for a chip butty at The Vic and chances are we hand peel the potatoes, then hand cut the chips before serving them up, no frozen chips here.
Couples want to get married at The Vic,(which we are looking into), but it’s a great pub also to call your local, you can come in knowing nobody, and go out knowing everybody, a very very friendly pub that earns respect from all its customers, who do tend to look after it and keep it that way, if you know what I mean, the website is worth a look at, www.vicbikerspub.co.uk in some places a little naughty and raunchy, but hey, its all fun, and what were about.
The Vic is the first bikers pub in the UK to be recognised in such a way, Leicestershire County Council have given us brown tourism signs.
Give us a try,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Vic has helped put Coalville on the map probably more so than any other attraction and has run more charity events than most would endeavour to…..
On Jan 1st or 2nd if the 3rd isn’t a work day, we host the Brass Monkey Run, started in 1995 bikers travel to the Vic from all over the UK to join in the ride around The Charnwood Forest.
This event raises hundreds of pounds for Rainbow’s childrens hospice in Loughborough,, The Air ambulance receives many hundreds of ££££££sss from us every year, we raise money for this charity every minute the pub is open by having a magazine rack inside the pub, bikers donate there old magazines and we sell them on for £1, which goes straight into there collection box.
Riders for Health benefit from us,( look at there website :- www.Riders.org ) we help with the Day of Champions at Donington Park, the ride out starts at Mallory Park, 400 plus riders head for The Vic, and we feed them each a bacon butty tea or coffee, we have 2 hours and get through one hundred pound in weight of bacon, 20 gallon of water for drinks, the idea is a few of the GP stars come to The Vic for breakfast, and we turn it into a chat show on stage, after this, all the bikers leave for Donington Park, this attracts a lot of media interest as it raises close to 200 grand for there cause, Princess Anne is patron of the charity and we have been lucky enough to meet her at the charitys open day and she shown a lot of interest in what we are doing at The Vic.
Famous faces are plentiful, Martin Johnson the England Rugby star paid us a visit, James Toseland the 2004 and 2007 world superbike champion has played with his band many times to help raise money for Riders For Health, Chas‘n’Dave was here in 2006, The 2 Hairy Bikers dropped in to help cook the bacon one year and were astounded at the level of organisation needed to make things run smoothly.
Motorcycle stars include Colin Edwards, Leon Haslam, Steve Plater, the late David Jeffries, just to many to mention, hope to see you one day.

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