Letters

URBAN BIKES

I always enjoy reading Maynard Hershon’s column.

In February 2018, however, he was quite disparaging about ‘retro’ bikes and the folk who buy them.

A visit to The Bike Shed in south east London would endorse his opinion about the ‘bushy dilettanti in ballerina jeans and white-soled sneakers’. However, some of those hipster types drawn to the burgeoning ‘garage built’ motorcycle scene by the image they wish to portray may eventually go on to then become ‘real’ motorcyclists.

With regard to the current popularity of ‘retro’ bikes, there is another demographic at work here too.

I am a member of a flourishing ‘any bike’ motorcycle club. I and many of the other members are of a ‘certain age’. We grew up with the bikes of the 1950s and 60s and we retain a fondness for that style of motorcycle. However, many of us no longer want to ‘tinker’ with our