Magic moments!
Well, I would like to say my motorcycling career started back in 1968, for various reasons obviously – the main one being that this was the first time I had actually been ‘caught’ – but it was way before that…
However, 1968 is a special year that sticks in my mind, for this was the year I was sat in the local police station with Sergeant Pilkinerson. Now, he was known to me and all my mates as ‘Plod Pilko’ and I was sat with said officer, waiting for my mother to bail me out for having been caught by Pilko for riding on the road at 15 and, of course, 16 was then the legal age to ride a 250cc motorcycle on a provisional licence. I know he wouldn't have caught me if my Excelsior field bike’s points hadn’t closed up…bloody things!
So, February 24, 1969 was the date I was willing to arrive. I scanned all the bike magazines and newspapers to see what was the fastest 250cc
