In pictures: Dubai’s distinguished gentleman ride

A Steve Mcqueen, ‘The King of Kool’ poster adorns the wall inside the Cafe Rider venue in Al Quoz where sixty plus Gentleman met for the start of the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2014 in Dubai. All photos by Antonie Robertson / The National

Riders meet at Cafe Rider in Al Quoz for the start of the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2014 in Dubai.

Suited and booted. Riders prepare to set off for the start of the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2014 in Dubai.

A procession of riders made it’s way along Sheikh Zayed rd and onto Emaar Boulevard where the not only turned heads but stopped traffic during the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2014 in Dubai.

Two dapper suited Gentlemen watch the arrival of fellow bikers outside Cafe Rider in Al Quoz for the start of the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2014 in Dubai.

Tools of the trade. A suit jacket, leather gloves and vintage styled helmet rests on it’s owners vintage styled Triumph scrambler at the end of the 2014 Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride in Dubai.

A brief traffic light stop brings the sixty plus rider procession to a halt near its destination in Jumeirah for the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2014 in Dubai.

A vintage looking Gentlemen pulls into the road on his Triumph to join fellow riders after a brief stop during the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2014 in Dubai.

A vintage looking Gentlemen pulls into the road on his Triumph to join fellow riders fter a brief stop during the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2014 in Dubai.

Riders prepare to set off for the start of the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2014 in Dubai.

Four of the more than sixty plus Gentleman who met for the start of the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2014 in Dubai enjoy a smoke and a ‘chin-wag’ before the start of the ride.

A suited Gentleman sits astride his custom Build Royal Enfield motorcycle outside Cafe Rider in Al Quoz for the start of the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2014 in Dubai.

After a hot spring nights ride through the streets of Dubai with some over sixty dapper gentleman and genteel ladies, these riders caught their breath outside the biker Cafe on Jumeirah Beach road.

The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride is an international motorcycling event that brings together like-minded individuals that don dapper suits, comb fine beards and ride vintage motorcycles in an attempt to combat the often negative stereotype of men on motorcycles. The 2014 event spanned 57 countries with 258 rides and raised more than US $1.4 million in charity funds for Prostate Cancer.