Great British cock ups
Finding fault with the traditional British motorcycle industry smacks of kicking a man when he’s down. We all know that circumstances – obsolete machinery, more affordable cars, overseas competition and so on – conspired to make survival difficult for the domestic makers. But if criticising home-grown factories is too simple, so is excusing them on the grounds that the Japanese manufacturers had the advantage of modern tooling and a more receptive local market. After all, some of those firms also went to
