YOU NEVER FORGET

ONE OF THE consequences of riding motorcycles is that suddenly you lose all your friends. This is fine, because motorcycles quite effectively fill the hole those feckless, non-riding bastards leave in your life. So you don’t really miss them at all. For a while, anyway. Eventually, the driving human need for socialisation with like-minded creatures kicks in and you begin to seek out people who laugh at the same things you do.

I lost my best childhood friend when I took to the handlebars. I didn’t think I would, because Alex