A brief chat with... MICK GRANT
Words: TIM BRITTON Photographs: TIM BRITTON/ MORTONS ARCHIVE
For someone who has scaled the heights of motorcycle stardom, Mick Grant’s start on powered two wheels was quite inauspicious. It was also followed fairly quickly by his first crash. This revelation brought a smile to the Yorkshireman’s face and a laugh from Steve Plater, who was also in Mick’s workshop. Go on then, what happened Mick?
“I’d have been about 12 or 13. Chris Bradley’s dad had got hold of a Triumph Tiger 80, the prewar 350cc single, and Chris and I decided it would be a great idea to get this thing going and see what motorcycling was all about. So, somehow we started it up and I shot off up this really narrow road in regulation kit of short trousers, no crash hat and no idea… all went okay until I looked up and
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