“His Junior Manx GP victory on the AJS won him favour with AMC.”
To say Alan Shepherd was keen to start motorcycling on the road would be an understatement. At one minute after midnight on September 28, 1951 – his 16th birthday – he took to the roads on the Royal Enfield Bullet he’d saved £15 to buy, the money coming from morning and evening milk rounds.
Born in Keswick, Northumberland, to milkman Harry and Gladys, the family moved to Cartmel (an hour south) at the start of the Second World War. Apprenticed as a cabinet
