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Motorcycles
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.
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
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 expressions for romantic feelings and recorded the evidence.