Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

First love Fizzy!

If I had a quid for every time a reader said the following to me, I’d be a millionaire: “I wish I still had my first bike.”

If you think about it, it’s what we all would want, wouldn’t we? Either in a letter, or at the CMM show, or even in a ‘Show Us Yours’ or ‘The Way We Were’ submission, this admission has been mentioned countless times. It’s amazing that while we can find former friends, old flames and the like on social media, many of us would rather find the first bike we swung a leg over, or that special bike that we say to friends: “I wish I’d never sold that…”

CMM reader Lloyd

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