Hairy Bikers: Dave Myers was my best friend in life and death, says Si King

The bikers’ strong bond was even apparent on Dave’s wedding day to his wife Lili.

“I mean [Lili] finds it funny, but I’m sure at the time she found it pretty irritating. Dave would always go, ‘Kingy, come on man, get in man, we’re having a photograph’. I’m going, ‘Dude, it’s your wedding day, I’m in every photograph. Lil’s going to go mad when she sees them.’ He was like, ‘No, no, no, come in.'”

Si says he even spent Valentine’s Day with the couple. Right from the very beginning, they were like “two old slippers” says Si, albeit that they were very different people. Dave was comedic and Si says he fell into the role of playing off Dave’s daftness.

One egg is never an oeuf – was just one of the jokes Si heard Dave repeat – over and over again. The similes were also never-ending, says Si.

“Oh, look at that, Kingy,” Dave would say, “It’s lighter than a hummingbird’s toenail clippings.”

Or “the onion is now more transparent than a bank manager’s smile”.