Dean Williamson first took his Suzuki GSX-R1100 to a drag strip as a bit of fun with his mates, not long after he bought it brand new in 1986. “It was a ‘run what you brung’ thing, where you could ride to Santa Pod and run it up the strip just to see what it […]
When Keith bought his Vincent HRD 500 Comet as a basket case in 1992, he had no idea of the bike’s history. It was only after Ian Savage of the Vincent HRD Owners Club (VOC) came to look at the Comet at Keith’s home that he realised what he had on his hands. “He looked […]
When Gary Thompson wandered into his local Yamaha dealer in 1986, he had his heart set on an RD500LC – the race-bred superbike launched two years earlier. He was quoted a price of £2,900, and was all set to place his order at Guilding & Wesson (G&W) in Wisbech when the salesman offered him the […]
The first motorbike Stuart Way ever rode on was a Norton. As a schoolboy in the mid ‘60s, he lived in a flat above a motorbike shop in Tilbury, Essex, and quickly got friendly with the mechanics. “That was how my motorcycle history started,” he says, “because I worked there after school and at weekends, […]
