Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

BACK IN THE DAY...

Once again, and never too often, this is C.E. (Titch) Allen, Charles Edmund Allen, writing very near the back of the March 1996 issue of Motorcycle Sport. The page is titledOccasional Comments and I wish they’d been more than Occasional. I can’t remember very many at all.

Titch called this particular ‘comment’ Keeping in Touch. I’d like to comment that it has a far wider application than Titch suggests. I’m sure he knew that as he typed this… and hoped you knew it, too.

Titch was the founder of the Vintage Motorcycle Club. He knew everyone connected with the vintage movement. Because you may not, Howard Davis was HRD, the builder of HRD

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