“There was no doubting Wyler’s credentials as a bona fide enthusiast.”

For a period in the early 1960s the name of Richard ‘Dick’ Wyler seemed to be one of the most prominent in British motorcycling. It was reckoned that at the 1963 Earls Court show 10,000 cups of coffee had been drunk at Motor Cycling’s Wyler Coffee Bar.

Famous from his role in the TV series Man from Interpol, Wyler was on a quest to change public perceptions of motorcyclists and had a weekly column in magazine, Dick Wyler’s Coffee-Bar Column, in which he shared his views, an eclectic (and sometimes strange!) collection