Monthly Archive: January 2015

Boom boom! Sorry, I couldn’t resist that… You see I was employed by Paul, or more correctly his business partner, Roy Francis, for ten years, starting in March 1984 at Paul Smart Ltd in Maidstone. So over the years Paul (and Roy) must have paid thousands to see me and I certainly didn’t begrudge forty bob on the door in return.  The occasion was the Greenwich MCC club meeting and in truth the £2 actually bought you a strip of raffle tickets…

You know how it is; you’ve been working on bikes for a long time – there’s not much the owner’s manual can tell you… I mean, you may want to check some settings but the rest of it? You could pretty much write it yourself… Now that the Classic Bike project Honda is nearly finished, I’m taking the opportunity to fit in a couple of jobs on my own bikes. The Norvin didn’t make it onto the road last year, largely because it had become a bit…