Classic Bike Guide

FRANK WESTWORTH

“We were young men, and that is what we did. Young women? They laughed at us. Some things never change.”

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Winter riding. A solitary pleasure? Frank hails back to a time when young men did what young men thought best – and all else laughed.

as the ‘good old days’, honest memory suggests that the only genuinely good bits were based around the fact that we were young and felt decently indestructible. My youthful friends and I rode out wheezing, clattering,

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