Classic Dirt Bike

Ride or drive?

“…that red glow on the horizon in your mirrors isn’t a pretty sunset, it’s the reflection from your brake lights. Are we ever going to get home…” John Dickinson

And now, as Monty Python used to say, for something completely different. Tired of arguing the toss over which 2017 carb should or shouldn’t be allowed (does it really matter?) on your super-shiny, 2018 spec, 280cc, six-speed Bantam for the upcoming Scottish Pre-65 Two Day, my mind veered off onto the subject of bike transport.

Actually it was triggered

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