Chris Phillips was 18 years old when he bought a tatty Lambretta Li150 in 1965 to get him to work and back. The scooter had, according to Chris, “been through the mill”, just seven years old but already used and
Few mothers like the idea of their independence-hungry teenage sons taking to the road on a motorcycle. That’s why, after Adrian Hanwell bought a Dayton Albatross scooter out of his own pocket back in 1968, his mum decided to reimburse
It’s 1959, and Brian Higgs, a teenage Teddy Boy, has fallen hook, line and sinker for a Norton International. Six decades later and Brian, now 77, is just as smitten with the bike that’s been with him virtually his whole
It was 1979 and speedway legend Terry Betts had just quit the sport he loved at the age of 36. The risks that first attracted him to the oval as a fearless teenager had become too great, a serious crash
As a teenager in the early 1960s, when British bikes still ruled the roads, Bob Warner only had eyes for the big Harleys from across the Pond. It was an era when motorbikes, or scooters if you were on the
It’s -2C and there’s a dusting of snow on untreated roads. But 69-year-old John Thompson is unfazed, donning his leathers and firing the 1958 Matchless G3LS that’s been with him for more than 40 years into puttering life. The rugged
