I passed my test on a 1952 BSA D1 Bantam which was bought for £5 in 1969. I restored the Bantam 40-odd years ago and still own it to this day. By the mid-1970s I was riding a 600 Norton Dominator on the road and racing speedway bikes.The Norton was sold to help me keep racing while my first speedway machine was written off after a collision with the safety fence at Stoke - never did like that small track!
In the 1980s I came to the classic scene and bought a 1954 rigid BSA M21 which I completely restored and added a Watsonian single-seat sidecar of similar age. That was so my mother could join myself and my dad on VMCC runs. She said he couldn't go on these runs unless she was going as well and she wasn't going to ride on
