Classic Bike Guide

FRANK WESTWORTH

“Because I know more than any sane individual would want to about postwar AMC machinery and rotary Nortons. None of this knowledge is currently much use, as I have neither make nor model on the road.”

lived with a strange focus on elderly motorcycles is Death By Anorak. I doubt it’s happened very frequently, or the sensationalist tabloids would be rammed with headlines demanding Immediate Action, and sundry sage souls would declaim sombrely on the BBC Home Service about the undoubted perils to the nation’s youth, public morality, and things like that. But… anoraknophobia is almost

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