After the sad news of Fred Willingham’s death this month, my column is one of a personal note and about the time I spent with him while sprinting a Lambretta.
Having taken a keen interest in Lambretta tuning, and eager to find information where possible, by chance I stumbled across some old copies of magazine. They were more than 20 years old and read like ancient manuscripts – that is, until I came across an article titled ‘How to get started in scooter sprinting’. It was written by a bloke from Bradford going by the name