Motorcycles

Myself & my cousin Robert  in America with the XS 650 Special Yamaha.

The 250cc Bultaco Sherpa

Since the age of 14, I have retained a love of motorcycles. Actually, obsession is a better word. At that early age it was the dissembled pieces of a 1953 250cc BSA C11G that fired my imagination.  My father had acquired the machine from a farmer who had been storing it in a barn in the Langdale valley, (where I lived), along with the engine and bits of frame from a 350cc 1936 New Imperial. Since that time I have owned and sold the following machines, not all of which I actually managed to put on the road, (I put some of them on the hills instead, which sometimes used to upset more sensitive souls.). Two, 200cc Triumph Tiger Cub Trials bikes. Two,200cc Triumph Tiger Cub road bikes. 650cc BSA A10. Honda 50. Honda 90. 250cc Ariel Leader. CB250K4 Honda. CB360 Honda (Still have). GT250 Suzuki. 250cc Bultaco Sherpa Trials. 650cc Ariel. Triumph T10 Scooter. GS 250cc Suzuki (Still have). XS650 Yamaha (Photo above).

The two machines that I still have, sit gathering dust, as I occasionally consider a time when I might start to rebuild them. At the moment, I cannot bring myself to stand in a cold shed, with my hands covered in oil, pretending that what I am doing is fun, just as I once did. So just now, I am quite happy to let them gather dust for a few more years! I guess one day, I will put one of them back together again and once more delight in that absolute expression of freedom, that two wheels provides. 

A 125 Suzuki Trail bike & GS 250 Suzuki which we hired in Nepal

Ralph Todino & his Kawasaki.

We met up with Ralph somewhere in Colorado and travelled together through New Mexico, Arizona, & California before he continued his own journey out west, from Death Valley. Don't know why I put this here... it belongs in the American travel section, but I have not written that yet.