“You are joking?” I gasped. “No, seriously, it’s only done 12 miles under power in its life.” I must have still looked incredulous as Al Winter qualified his statement by saying the original owner in Spain bought it and rode it for a few hours then laid it up for a bit – which turned out to be nearly 40 years. The next question had to be: “How did it arrive in your workshop Al?”
Well, Al has a bit of an OSSA habit. In the mid-70s he rode North