RealClassic

BLOOD BIKES!

I’ve been meaning for an age and a day to investigate the idea of signing up to a Blood Bikes group and, about a year ago, I finally got my derriere into a higher ratio and actually contacted a local group. I should, at this point, say that I undertook and achieved the RoSPA Gold motorcycle qualification many, many years ago sometime shortly after the scheme

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from RealClassic

RealClassic4 min read
Members’ Enclosure
Back in the day (that day being some time around 1987), one of my flatmates owned a particularly nasty example of Yamaha's XS650. It was so awful that it gave rat bikes a bad name. It had been painted matt black and was congenitally bad tempered. It
RealClassic6 min read
Gold Star trek The Next Generation
Fats Waller, Elvis Presley, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Taylor Swift and Britney Spears all have something in common – the BSA Gold Star. How so? Well… Back in ‘38, Wal Handley may well have listened to Fats as he rode the newest sports machine from BSA.
RealClassic10 min read
Tales From The Shed
Bikes are for riding, apparently, as well as for providing endless ways of passing the time agreeably in sheds throughout the lands, especially when winter arrives. It was a wet, windy and very dull day, perfect for an afternoon's jovial spannering,

Related Books & Audiobooks