RETRO RACER

few years ago the motorcycle world was going hipster crazy with all manner of fairly hideous ‘customised’ bikes appearing as manufacturers paid chaps with beards and tattoos to basically ruin a perfectly good machine in the name of fashion and PR. Frames were chopped, inappropriate wheels and tyres fitted, brown seats added; you name it, it happened and was then followed up by a photo shoot in some backstreet workshop to make the bike look all moody and cool. However a few good things did spring out of this fairly annoying subculture (although it’s not really a subculture