MOTORSPORT will be on the up as competitors with an incredible variety of machines converge on a legendary hill-climb course.

Shelsley Walsh is set to host a bike festival which is being billed as a must for anyone with a passion for motorcycles.

The festival, on Sunday September 4, will feature a diverse collection of machines, including the world’s fastest shopping trolley – which is powered by an engine from a Chinook helicopter and can reach a world record speed of 70.4mph.

Another unusual bike at the event will be the Warhorse Monowheel, a Guinness world record holder for that type of vehicle, where the rider sits inside a single wheel.

In 2015, Warhorse rider Kevin Scott, who will be at Shelsley Walsh, reached 65mph.

The True Heroes Racing team of injured servicemen will also be at Shelsley Walsh to show they can compete on the same terms as able-bodied racers. In 2013, LCPL Murray Hambro became the UK’s first double amputee motorcycle racer to compete in the mainstream British Superbike Championship. The team will be at the festival with their Ducati Supersport 600 race bikes.

The event will also offer people the chance to take part in timed hill climb events or join experienced racers as passengers in high speed ascents up the word-famous route.

Stuntman Dick Shepard is set to make his biking debut at the festival. He has appeared in more than 500 TV shows and and films, including James Bond and The Italian Job.

Dick claims to have wrecked 2,003 cars during his career after forming his Disaster Squad stunt team in 1968.

All proceeds from the festival will be donated to Severn Freewheelers, the region’s Blood Bike group which takes vital donor blood, blood products, pathology samples, frozen human milk and other medical essential to hospitals and other medical centres.

The mayor of Hereford, Cllr Charles Nicholls, said: “Blood bikes provide a vital service and the bikers selflessly give their time free and riding skills in all weathers to save lives. .”

Advance tickets cost £12, and the cost of entering a motorbike to run up the hill costs £35.

For more information about the event, visit shelsleybikefestival.co.uk