Nick Hester, the creator of this M20 bobber, is also a master of his trade, which is carpentry. He is the fourth generation of a family which has worked with wood out of the same Oxfordshire village buildings and yard. “I do woodwork and general carpentry, construction and interior,” said Nick. But a beautiful wooden dovecot further down the village street lets you know he’s a craftsman, and something of a perfectionist.
Off-road
Nick’s hobby is building up motorcycles, mainly off-road-oriented; he’s ridden green lanes and competed in trials, though never motocross. Nevertheless, he’s created a beautifully-built BSA B50-based scrambler, as well as owning several more modern off-roaders, and an alloy-tank BSA A10 650cc twin adapted for trail work. So he did not come to the M20 project lacking experience.
He had found the makings in a nearby village, eight or nine years previously, in a friend’s old stable. His pal Matthew did shotblasting there and Nick spotted a cobwebbed frame standing on its end. Matthew told him it had been brought in for blasting five or six years before that, and he hadn’t heard from the owner since. Further rummaging located the engine in a box, and most of the rest of the cycle parts. Matthew phoned the owner, and two weeks
