‘Work in progress!’
Bikes have always been my freedom. Right from the word go and my 1977 Puch Maxi S, they have allowed me to go places and do things.
The Puch propelled me to British Aerospace in Weybridge where I did my apprenticeship in aeronautical engineering, following on with a 1975 N-reg Honda C90 step-through. The further you went on this thing the quicker it got and regular 60-mile plus trips ensued as my thirst for freedom expanded. Passing my test on a semi-auto bike seemed at the time like a cop-out to me and I was bricking it when I purchased my first new machine, a 1981 Honda CB400NA sporting a clutch. I wobbled around for a while but generally got the hang of it, until I
