Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

BACK IN THE DAY...

I had four favourite writers in the old Motorcycle Sport: Titch Allen, One Track, RK (Ray Knight) and Ken Craven. Ken Craven wrote about motorcycle touring, long-distance touring, first on a succession of Matchless singles, later on various motorcycles borrowed from their importers.

He also, as I’ve mentioned before, designed hard motorcycle luggage and racks that are still in production today. This excerpt is from an article called Return to Mojacar in the November 1991 issue of Motorcycle Sport. In 91, Ken Craven was no longer a young man and he was no stranger to doctors’ offices or operating rooms. As you’ll read, he had

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