REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG?

CHAPTER ONE

You shone like the sun

It all goes back to my earliest involvement with cars and motorcycles. Living in the countryside I had friends who were farmers’ sons, which gave me the opportunity to learn to drive and ride at a very early age. I drove a Fordson Dexter tractor at 11, drove my first car at 13, and rode my first motorcycle around the same age. Vital skills were learned in the fields, inevitably through crashing. This was a safe environment to make mistakes in, the penalty being usually a bruise and not a collision with an oncoming car.

After our field bikes, mopeds came along and with