The Garden Gate

Leaning o’er t’garden gate chatting to a pal, he asked me whether I’d ever done any good. “What at? The Horses? Life?” “Nar,” he said, “that racin’ stuff you used to do.” Ah, that. “Well, I vividly remember sitting on my Rickman Triumph in the warm-up area at Crosland Moor when the exhaust note changed and it felt a bit lumpy, looked down at the motor that I had lavished many an hour on to see that one of the carburettors, complete with part of its mounting stub, had snapped off; must have got a bit carried away with the tooning! But it wasn’t just mechanical cock-ups that punctuated my pathetic racing career. In the early days competing with my GS1000 turbo bike I had fitted a totally inadequate front end…

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

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