Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

MOTO GYMKHANA For old blokes and slow bikes (NOT)

MSL: How did you get into Moto Gymkhana?

I moved across to Australia with my wife for her work – and I bought a Yamaha Fazer 1000 out there. It was one of the black and yellow ones and looked a bit like a big bee. I looked at it and thought, I want that. So, I was riding that around Melbourne – which, by the way, was a fantastic city for motorcycling – you were allowed to park on the pavement, and all sorts of things like that. But I was working as an engineer at the time – and I thought, why I am sitting inside an office when there’s beautiful sunshine outside. And then I noticed this advert for

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