Nifty Fifties!

The smell of two-stroke, the tall tales of derring-do and the local chippy – for a generation, these two little stink-wheels represent nostalgia at its very finest.

ALAN DOWDS, DAVE SMITH

SPORTS MOPEDS Nifty Fifties! The smell of two-stroke, the tall tales of derring-do and the local chippy – for a generation, these two little stink-wheels represent nostalgia at its very finest. WORDS: ALAN DOWDS AND DAVE SMITH PICS: JOHN GOODMAN Variety: it’s your actual spice of life, isn’t it? And it’s one of the things that I was missing when I was sat down in the middle of ‘Lockdown Three’. I guess we all suffered our own ‘daily grind’ – mine was a Groundhog Day mix of wake up, work, home schooling, internet trolling, work, looking out the window, going for a walk, Netflix, bed – which was getting us all down. Thankfully I had my various project bikes – the Yamaha Fazer 600, my turbo ZRX1100, the mighty Burgman…

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Classic Motorcycle Mechanics (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2021

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