FRANK WESTWORTH

“I dragged out the mostly modern Triumph twin instead, pushed its starter button, observing that it sounds less like supertanker anchor chains being dragged over a tin roof than does the amusing equivalent on the Norton, and shot off back to M&S. We’re posh in Cornwall”

afternoon, as they sometimes do. I’d been out powering around the greensward aboard possibly the best Norton ever built (electric start, good handling, great brakes, comfortable too) and had been riding like a complete bozo. This is, of course, not entirely unusual, but