The Classic MotorCycle

First time around

Everybody remembers their first motorcycle. Mine was a 1935 MAC Velocette, although perhaps ironically, I had to buy a secondhand (far from classic) Yamaha in order to secure my test and get on with riding what I really enjoyed.

For a 17-year-old that would like to start off in motorcycling, what are the options for them as a rider, and perhaps more interestingly, is starting out as a learner rider on a classic machine any sort of viable option?

As I discussed in a previous column, our primary learner machines

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