Alternative thinking
It’s amazing how often chance plays a part inthis magazine world, at least when it comes to inspiration for features. What I mean by that is achance comment by someone at an event where they recall old so and so who built a this, that or the other and it’s still around, or, as happened an issue or three ago while searching in our archive for something else unconnected with off-road motorcycles, something stunning turns up after being misfiled.
There I was on a search for a Panther sidecar outfit when a photo of a young lad – Mike Winwood – self-consciously posing with a scrambler, appeared before me. Mike had clearly been told by the photographer to kneel down and look like he was doing a bit of fettling. The bike looked good in the photo and there was some info on the back which gave the archive location of the other images and hey presto the feature on page 22 of
CDB 44 happened.
At the end of the feature we said it would be great if any of the Winwoods could get in touch. Well, the off-road network is close-knit and everyone knows everyone and Mike Winwood’s brother Ross got in touch with us. Ross related
