Over 60 dare-devil dressed riders will be welcomed to Tenby over the May bank holiday weekend fundraising for a good cause.

The RIDE Cymru Knievels motorcycle event will again return to the perimeter lanes of Wales between May 2 and 6, and each year since 2012, a regular stop has been the quayside at Tenby, where the group plan to hit again this year at around 11 am on Saturday, May 4, for its annual group picture at the resort’s harbour area, before descending on Pembroke Dock.

The event has raised £47,000 between 2012 and 2018, and on the 2019 event it is hoped to raise between £10,000 to £15,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Correspondence from the ride organisers came before members of Tenby Town Council at their meeting on Tuesday night.

“All our 60 Cymru Knievels will be dressed as the 1970s legend daredevil Evel Knievel - and we shall enter and leave the town in an organised manner as we have done each year previous,” wrote Jason Lewis of RIDE Cymru Knievels.

“It would be an ideal and more practical opportunity if we can temporarily park on High Street near St. Mary’s Church rather than all squeeze again onto the quayside,” he added.

Clr. Mrs. Tish Rossiter said that the Scooter Rally always gets a good welcome in Tenby, so she was sure that the Ride Cymru participants would as well.

“It’s a good cause to support and good publicity for the town,” she said.

Clr. Viv Perry pointed out that he could foresee problems parking by St. Mary’s Church, on a busy bank holiday weekend in Tenby, especially if there was a wedding or funeral taking place.

Clr. Mike Evans suggested that the organisers and town council liaise with Pembrokeshire County Council’s street care manager to see if the authority’s enforcement officers could grant the riders some ‘leeway’ when it came to temporarily parking in the town, as they had done for the scooter rally in the past.

The grand finish of the 2019 event in Wrexham on Bank Holiday Monday (May 6) will also be a Guinness World Record attempt of the ‘largest gathering of Evel Knievels’ to date.