Like most bikers of a certain age, Eddie Hornblow was weaned on British bikes. As a young man in the 1960s, he followed a well-ridden road, cutting his teeth on a BSA Bantam at 16 before graduating to larger Matchless
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
Ian Mann’s Lambretta SX200 wears its 51 years on its panels, on its unpainted headlamp cover and on its chipped and scarred legshields and mudguard. The plumbing and heating engineer from Norfolk knows every dent, every scratch, and how that
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
Motorcycling journalist and author Bruce Preston has owned his BMW R60/2 since 1964 and, now in his 80s, still rides it regularly. Over many years as a road tester for Motorcycle Sport magazine, it became his benchmark, the bike by
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
