A brief chat with... …John Young

Sometimes things affect or direct the course of our interests, and from then on nothing else will do… It doesn’t matter what the interest is, but as this is a motorcycle magazine, we’ll concern ourselves with motorcycle matters.

In John Young’s case a feature on the racing triples in the early classic press absorbed his interest so much he couldn’t stop thinking about them.

He says: “It was just fabulous, the whole thing, the history of the bikes, the shoestring budgets, the passion from the people, the successes and, well, I was hooked. From then