Rex Knight is a person who probably has his own interesting stories about motorcycling having grown up with a father who was already into bikes and finished his last restoration of a long stroke featherbed Manx Norton at the healthy age of 84. However Rex has a different tale to tell, this one is about […]
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Some of us will live to what would be deemed ‘a ripe old age’, boring others with our own personal stories of how good life has been, reminding todays youth of how easy they have it, whilst others will not be so fortunate. This would never be more true than for the residents of Christchurch
Canterbury Capers. Read More »
In the 1990s New Zealands custom and modified non Japanese motorcycle magazine called Twin Eagle used to have the occassional page with very early photographs titled Blast From The Past. These were contributions from readers and there were some very interesting scenes including this one titled 4 Generations. The great grandfather is sitting on a
4 Generations of Motorcyclists. Read More »
Not much information on this photograph except the rider was a boarder called Jack and he must have stayed for quite a while because when he finally left he had much less hair than shown in this photograph. Motorcycle is a late 1910s~early 1920 Douglas 2 3/4 hp 2 speed belt drive twin cylinder and
Under Old Barnstormers Remembered this is an interesting story of a young man and his love for his Henderson motorcycle that his son John thought we all might like to read about. Ray was born in 1914 and grew up with a passion for things mechanical. He left school when he was 14 years old
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