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It was in 1977 that I had my first real involvement with a motorcycle. It was a 1971 Puch VZ 50, that had a weird three speed combined twist clutch come gear change mechanism. My friend Kev had spotted it in the local auction house and in a moment of madness had spent his entire […]
The recent spell of warm weather in Febuary has meant that Linda and I have been able to take a couple of longer rides on my old 1993 Triumph Trident Sprint and as the boys in blue were running a “casualty reduction initative” Op-Darwen. I thought that as well as some of the more widely […]
I’m sure that most of us have owned a few bikes over our motorcycling career, but as I suppose should be expected, I’ve owned more than a few. To be perfectly honest I really don’t know how many personal bikes I’ve owned, I gave up counting at the age of 21 when my old friend […]
As some of you will know I started in the motorcycle trade in the very early 80’s and over the years I have had positions in most areas of the industry from storeman, mechanic, sales rep, sales manager, to shop owner and as you can imagine I have dealt with a great many people in […]
In the time I have been in the Motorcycle trade I have seen many changes in the bikes and indeed the people who ride them obviously some of these changes are purely due to changes in fashion, while others are due to the massive advances in technology that have gone on in the last 38 […]
I was recently browsing one of my social media platforms sales areas and found some pictures of a nice looking 1981 Kawasaki Z250A3, a little four stroke twin for those of you that are not familiar with 1980’s 250’s. Initially I was attracted because when I started work in the bike trade I worked in […]
A lot of people talk about the Suzuki GT750 in awe expecting a water cooled 750cc two stroke triple to be a bit of a handful, well they are but for different reasons than you would expect. I have owned two Kettles over the years, a 1971 GT750J, a GT750M and a Spondon TR750 chassis, the […]
As I mentioned in a previous post, one of the nicer things about being an independent dealer is the huge variety of different motorcycles I get to work on and, more importantly ride! This time I got to work on and eventually ride was a super rare and desirable two stroke two fifty the jewel […]
As some of you will know I have a bit of a soft spot for the Triumph T300 series of bikes, I currently own three, two Trident Sprints and a Daytona 1200SE (Sadly dismantled at the moment). These bikes marked Triumph’s rebirth in 1991, when business man John Bloor launched a range 750, 900, 1000 […]
Here we are in July, in the middle of a heatwave, other countries just call this Summer, don’t they? As normal we are hugely busy, with a wide variety of work on the go including a 1980’s Z1000, a Honda NSR250 MC28 SP, a BMW R90s, ST1300, and a Ducati 750ss to name but a […]