Classics Monthly

ROD KER REELING IN THE YEARS

Wearing my motorcycling crash helmet instead of my Classics woollen hat reserved for the Herald, I recently worked on a magazine feature that involved me riding the same bike on the same journey as one pictured in a black and white photo taken in 1979, but then lost for 25 years. How have things changed? Looking for answers when the photograph first resurfaced in 2004, I also did a repeat run back then, trying to recreate the same image. Although it was in 2019 that I attempted the most recent re-recreation,

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