Classic Bike Guide

Famous Last Words

I’VE JUST THIS MINUTE GOT BACK FROM AN unexpectedly remarkable lunch. There’s nothing remarkable about lunch, I hear you say wearily, but there is when you’ve shared the culinary delight with a chap called John – John Young.

“I’m riding up from Land’s End. Fancy a cuppa?”

“Sure. Where? Roadford Lake in Devon has a tearoom.”

“See you there…”

Nothing unusual in this, you might say, and you would be correct. However…

I’ve known John, on and off, for

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