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This was my very first bike - a Suzuki
GSX600R, otherwise known as a
teapot. It took me round Scotland and on a couple of track days, and
got me introduced to the Suzuki Owners' Club. I was sorry to part with
it, but I needed something with a little more power. |
| Enter my first Thunderace - that is, a
Yamaha YZF1000R.
A quoted 145 bhp - enough for me. |
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This is the bike in touring mode. We've
just come back from a fortnight
in the Alps and paid a fleeting visit to my mother's in the New Forest.
She snapped us as we set off back up north. |
| I've done a few track days, and huge fun
they are too. This is me about
to be overtaken at Croft. My last track day was at Cadwell Park, where
I took the old hairpin too fast, parted company with the bike and
managed to break my collar
bone
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There is a biking connection here.
Pat and I got married in September 2001. We spent our honeymoon with
nearly 50 other bikers on a long weekend in Caudebec en Caux on the
banks of the Seine. A friend mistook these bucolic expessions for
romantic feelings and recorded the evidence. |
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