PAGE three model Tracey Coleman will add a touch of glamour to the leather-clad cavalcade which will officially open the Rossendale Valley Motorbike Show on Sunday.

Tracey, star of TVs Men and Motors, will join BBC TV's Top Gear presenter Steve Berry, Classic Racing star John Cronshaw, Emmerdale's Alan Turner and Coronation Street's Tyrone for the 1,000 bike ride-in from Winfields, in Haslingden.

Custom bikes, classic bikes, new bikes, old bikes and every form of trike will flood Rawtenstall in the spectacular one-day biking fantasia.

This year Asda is getting in on the act by hosting the mini moto bike racing and also a variety of stalls raising money for Rossendale Hospice, the store's chosen charity.

In the Astoria, tattoo artists will be showing their skills and at Newhallhey Dave Coats and his team will perform stunts and there will be the British Arm Wrestling Championships.

More than 150 trade stands will pack the streets and Cripsey's Wall of Fear will set up on the car park opposite the market.

Live music will be performed on two stages and there will also be a chance to win a Kawasaki ZX900-CR (ZX9-R Ninja) sponsored by Rossendale Kawasaki, of Crawshawbooth. There will be celebrity ride-ins at 8.30am from Squire cafe, Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire, at 9am from Devil's Bridge, Kirkby Lonsdale, and Rivington Barn, near Chorley.

Also at 9am a classic bike and scooter ride will leave Towneley Park, Burnley and all will rendezvous at Winfields for the final massive motorbike ride-in.

To join the ride in costs £5 per rider and £5 per pillion, but that includes show entry for the whole event, which otherwise costs £4.

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