The Golden Era of Biking Relived
‘Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end’, sang Mary Hopkin in the late 1960s and, apparently, for a certain group of distinguished gentlemen, they never will.
Enter the Vintage Zoroastrian Bikers of Bombay (VZBB), an informal club founded by Farrokhi Bengali, owner of an impressive array of British and German motorcycles from what can only be called the good old days of motorcycling.
I had the good fortune of being invited to one of their Sunday-morning rides and this is what I learned.
The group has around 80 of the finest and best restored machines in the country, running exactly the way they were designed to more than half a century ago. It is also worth mentioning that there are less than a handful of knowledgeable mechanics and tuners who work hard to keep them that way.
The club was the brainchild of Farrokhi and a
