Many an explanation has been offered for the Spin – a pagan circle ceremony welcoming the Spring, an ecologically motivated critique of car culture, a Kerouackian celebration of the car and the transcendent possibilities of the long drive, an exercise in performance art or alternatively in abstract cinema, a rude test of endurance accompanied by a pride of achievement, a metaphorical taunting of the capital’s concrete wagon circle by the outriders of exclusion, with the “Demand World Peace” and “Blair is a Liar” placards becoming so many arrows fired off in anger.

Gimpo and Tim offer instead an invidious and infectious ‘Why Not?’ explanation. Invidious because if ‘Why Not?’ is enough of a motivation on its own, why write an article about it, why take any images? Aren’t these beside the point or, rather, beside the pointlessness? Infectious because if ‘Why Not?’ is enough to send a motley crew of people not just from around the country but from around the world off for 25 hours around a short stretch of road in an unforced atmosphere of comradeship and sense of unpredictable potential, what other objectives might ‘Why Not?’ be a good enough excuse to pursue?