EIGHT IS ENOUGH
Ideas are easy. Turning them into reality is the hard bit. Or, at least it is for most of us. But most of us aren’t Malcolm Oastler. You see, Malcolm is someone who not only has great ideas, he’s someone who can bring those ideas to life, as evidenced by the creation shown here – a creation that JUST BIKES inadvertently inspired!
CHILD PRODIGY
We usually associate child prodigies with 8-year-olds who can play the piano like a master, or kids barely out of kinder who can solve the sort of maths problems most of us can’t even fathom.
There are different types of genius, though, so surely prodigy status can apply to a kid who builds his own motorcycle while still in primary school? That’s exactly what Malcolm did.
As a 12-year-old in the early ’70s, the young Malcolm could see that his push-along scooter just wasn’t cutting it, so he added a wheelbarrow wheel and 2-stroke engine off the family’s Victa mower to create a motorcycle. OK, calling it a “motorcycle” may have been a bit of a stretch, as brakes, gears and suspension were absent, but it was a powered two-wheeler – and a hell of a
