Roger Collins looks at least a decade younger than his 74 years. Maybe it’s just good genes – his 97-year-old mother still lives in the house in which Roger was born on the banks of the Grand Union Canal –
The Triumph Tiger 90 had been discarded, an unwanted old bike unceremoniously dumped in a South Wales quarry. But for Les Powell and an enterprising friend, it would have been the bike’s final resting place, an ignominious end for one
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
