A MOTORBIKE-LOVING gran got some new wheels to mark her 100th birthday.

Vera Green took a trip from her home in Crawley to the Ace Cafe in north London with Biker Escorts UK.

Her daughter Princess Goodwin helped organise the trip yesterday with her friend Giovana, and said her mother used to love riding motorbikes.

Vera grew up in East London and her mother was a chef and baker for the Duke of Clarence.

She was the eldest of 13 siblings, and fittingly for a baker’s dozen, she herself became a pastry chef at Harleyford Manor in Buckinghamshire.

Princess said: “She worked in five star hotels, but started as a dolly waitress at Lyon’s Tea House.

“Mum was always baking cakes and continued right up until the age of 85. Whenever I came home from school she was always baking.

“She was quite strict, as was my father, but she was also talented with needlework, so I always had new patterns and brilliant clothes.

“My son is now a pastry chef, and he definitely got the talent from her.”

Princess, 61, who is a physiotherapist with Steyning Town Football Club, said the motorbike idea came from knowing her mother’s passion.

Vera, a grandmother and great-grandmother, used to visit the Ace Cafe, a popular haunt for bikers, in the past with her cousin Jeanie, who she met yesterday for the first time in decades.

Princess said: “She’s always loved bikes.

“When she was 60 my brother bought her a motorbike and I remember her riding down the road in her night dress.

“It caused quite a surprise for people.

“I asked her if she remembered Ace Cafe and she seemed to light up and told me she had some great times there.

“She didn’t know it was still in existence.”

Yesterday Vera had a surprise party there, before returning to her care home at Sunningdale Court in Crawley.