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, […]