Classic Bike Guide

PAUL MILES

I WENT OUT FOR A RIDE YESTERDAY – JUST setting the scene for you. It was a ‘regular’ event for the VMCC. In club parlance that means a run for any bike that’s over 25 years old. We had a great turnout and there was the usual eclectic mix of machines that only the VMCC members can really put out there.

Rubbing shoulders with 1970s BMW airheads and Japanese fours were an assortment of old British drippers, anywhere from the swinging Sixties backwards to the roaring Twenties. This presents somewhat

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