Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

UNV 368W- a life!

I first saw this bike some time in 1987. I was 16 and I saw it with my best friend Donald Jenkins, who was two years older.

We had been friends for a few years, and were both keen bikers, having owned many field bikes between us. Don had fallen in love with his then boss’ 350LC and had decided to buy one. He didn’t have a licence, but he was the sort who couldn’t see why that should stop him! Ahem!

He’d heard about a guy called Nigel who was selling one. Now, Nigel’s parents owned the newsagents in our village,

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