Happy birthday!
“Combat Wombat, Road Toad and Dirt Squirt are just a few of the names chosen to get a potential buyer’s attention back in the day.”
in 1982 by Mike Ridley, the nascent club was almost a spin-off of the American VJMC, founded some five years previously. Membership was initially in the tens, then moved into the hundreds, before finally passing the 1000 mark a few years later. Today, the VJMC in the UK has in excess of 5700 members and continues to grow as lads and lasses from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s relive their youth. Truth be told, the VJMC recognises any Japanese motorcycle more than 15 years old, which has always helped widen its appeal. With every model of machine effectively designed and constructed with supposed ‘built-in obsolescence’, it’s always been the aim to ensure as many are not
