Classic Bike Guide

FRANK WESTWORTH

“Would anyone want to buy an AJS built in the Far East? What a daft notion. AJS bikes were built in London or Wolverhampton. Mostly. Then I wondered what had changed since the Harris Matchless – built in Devon, not Plumstead. And I understood. I’ve changed.”

doing? Spluttering along nicely I hope, as seems to be the way as we all age together. Which we do. Events that should by rights be buried in the happy mists of time suddenly spring into the current consciousness, while what we’re supposed to be doing next can quite suddenly become

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