Leisure Wheels

CONFESSIONS OF A TANK GIRL

Where does the love of motorcycles come from?

As a child I never had a serious desire to own or ride a bike. Nobody in my family had one and even though I had a scooter in high school, it was purely for the comfort of getting to all my extracurricular activities without bogging down my mother for a lift. At 27 I moved back to Johannesburg after working in Secunda for four years. I was bored, I didn’t have many friends

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