A MOTORCYCLE enthusiast whose funeral featured a convoy of bikes has died aged 66.

Peter Brain had been riding motorcycles for at least five decades and was a member of the club Saga Louts.

The club regularly went on days out known as “wrinkly runs”, often of 100 miles or more and including a pub lunch.

Mr Brain was still riding until about six months before his death earlier this month, after being diagnosed with cancer.

His son Ronan said: “Motorcycles were what took up most of his life and he taught me to ride when I was aged four.

“He was a man who favoured British makes, mainly Triumphs, and he still owned about four up to the day he died.

“But a dream he never quite realised was to acquire an Indian Scout, an American bike from the late 1920s and 1930s.”

Peter Brain was born in Oxford on March 25, 1949, to parents Margaret and Ralph, a former news editor at the Oxford Mail.

He grew up in High Street, Kidlington, and was a pupil at Magdalen College School.

After leaving he took an apprenticeship at Oxford University Press as a printer, staying there for four years.

He met his future wife, Jenny nee Butler, in the late 1960s and the couple married in Oxford in 1969.

They had their first child, Katie, in 1971, followed by Ronan in 1974, but divorced 30 years later.

At that time of his marriage Mr Brain had taken a job at the British Leyland factory in Oxford, now BMW’s Plant Oxford.

He went to work at W Lucy & Co’s Jericho ironworks in 1990, leaving in 2002.

Afterwards Mr Brain took a job at Formula One team Force India’s research and development department, where his son worked, and helped develop bodywork for the race cars.

He retired in 2009.

Mr Brain died on June 2 from skin cancer. His funeral was held at Oxford Crematorium on June 26, when his cortege was followed by more than 25 motorcyclists. He is survived by his two children and three grandchildren, Callum, Edith and Iris.