From the Secretary

2009-04-17T07:01:00.000-07:00

I am yet another of the ‘gap’ bikers. After a spate of tinkering and riding different machines (when they worked) in my teens there followed a good few years when cars took precedence (mainly for practical reasons) then it was back to a two stroke or two. My first bike was a Royal Enfield 125 which I bought for a fiver, it had flat tyres, was as rusty as could be and filthy. A good clean, a bit of welding on the exhaust, some air in the tyres, fresh two stoke mixture and away we went. I progressed to a Rudge 250 and Arial 250 (the four stroke single cylinder) and a Norman 197 which was my main workaday bike. One way or another they all went (most of them in a fire in the garage when the Rudge went up in flames). So now it’s predominantly Bantams, I have two in working order and enough bits for more. The most complete and working model is a 1960 D7.

Enough of the technical stuff, a bit about me - I have spent all but the first two years of my working life in IT working mainly for private sector corporations or outsourcing companies. In 2001 I finally took the plunge and set up an IT consultancy and am still at it, anyway it keeps me in spares and paint. What the change of job also meant was that I had to learn a lot in a short time and understand more about accounting, marketing, sales and customer management and a thousand other things about running a business that someone else used to do to support me in corporate land. It has been a hard lesson to learn but it does give me some skills that I think can be applied to support the Bantam Club.

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