Of tiddlers and tractors
I was interested to read your comments in the OBA105 relating to in the increased interest in small machines. For many of us the small machine was our introduction to what would later become a life long obsession. The feel of all that “power” from a 50cc Trojan Mini motor two stroke engine strapped on the frame of a pedal bike with a friction roller creating clouds of blue smoke was marvellous.
In the early 1960s my mum said. “would you like a real motorcycle”; I couldn’t