Twin shocks?

“You’ve turned up at the right time!” AP Workshop’s Griff Woolley says to me. I’m guessing it’s because the kettle is on, but apparently not. Griff runs AP (Aprilia Performance) Workshops and he’s been running this business since 2008. His current partners in crime include Steven ‘Snox’ Snoxall and Amber Victoria.

If you enter the building, expect to have the mickey taken – but they take it as well as they give it! Griff goes back a long ways with anything Aprilia. While some may criticise me wanting to get things checked over by an expert rather than just dive in myself, well, I wanted this bike checked over by ‘an expert’ – nowt wrong with that, surely? And I’m paying and taking notes for the future…

So why is this the right time, Griff? “Well,” he says. “The prices have deteriorated as much as they are going to and they’re only