The Classic MotorCycle

A brief chat with... …the Association of Pioneer Motor Cyclists

It’s a slightly different take on our brief chat for this month as we’re talking to a club rather than one person, so we asked the Association of Pioneer Motor Cyclists chairman Ken Brady to provide the answers.

In the early days of motorised transport, the ‘motor’ club would be an all-encompassing group for enthusiasts of this new form of powered vehicle. In those pioneering days the club would be for car and motorcycle enthusiasts, often one and the same and all facing the same outlook from officialdom and society – too noisy, too smelly, too intrusive, too dangerous and so it goes on.

However, the

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