The Classic MotorCycle

A brief chat with... Mike Andrews

It is the stuff of dreams. A lad arrives home from work one evening: "Go look in the garage;' his dad says. He does, and there is a brand-new AJS trials bike waiting for him. Seems like a fantasy, doesn't it? Well, in the case of 17-year-old Mick Andrews it actually did happen, when he was drafted into the AMC works team in 1962.

The lead up to this came when, along with his dad, he paid a chance visit to a trial where a friend of Mr Andrews Snr, Alec Broadhead, was riding.

"We were watching this section and no one was getting through clean, when Alec called up to me and said 'you have a go Mick' and I cleaned it on his

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