Classic Bike Guide

FRANK WESTWORTH

A lifelong and largely inexplicable passion for elderly motorcycles has resulted in my having a large shed loaded with an alarming amount of stuff. To the initiated this looks largely like jumble … to the uninitiated it looks entirely like junk. You can choose sides should you so wish. When I acquired most of it I regarded it as simply stuff, simple soul that I am. Other opinions are available, and previously I would have also remarked that they’re irrelevant. Except…

As well as a large shed

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