THE BIKE SHED FESTIVAL – We raced Too!
NEVILLE, MARIA AND I SPEND SO MUCH TIME IN sheds fixing and building things, or covering shows and photographing other people’s bikes, that it’s occasionally time to have a go ourselves. And the Bike Shed Festival seemed the perfect blend of on track for me, and off-road for Maria and Nev. But what to take?
Luck intervened when the van hire company could only lend us a Luton, so we could have taken everything! Sensibly, we opted for Maria’s 1978 Benelli 125 Enduro, Neville’s ‘Beeza’, a DB34 engined, B31 framed scrambler and his ‘JAP’; an Ariel Red Hunter-framed JAP LTZ, 1096cc side-valve V-twin. From a rotavator. With homemade mag, and, well, everything. Oh, and my B31 as a reserve. And cake.
Preparation was our usual standard (minimum!), as the BSAs are in
