idle how mechanically sound and relatively rust free the olg girl was. Sure, it needed completely going through to make it mint but it crossed my mind that it probably wouldn’t take too much effort to breath a bit of life back into her

Over the years I’ve bought and sold loads of bikes; new ones, old ones, mint ones and basket cases. And I can’t remember once paying the asking price if I was buying, or being offended by a bit of haggling if I was selling. Whether buying from a

. We even passed a few cars and one bike. It just shows, you never can tell!The Goodwood Revival meeting was as good as usual this year. I rode a really nice G50 matchless with my appointed riding partner Mark Parrett. It was mint to be out on track

of mates decided we’d have a day at a place called Armthorpe, a practise motocross track near Doncaster. We used to go quite regularly about ten years ago when it first opened . Back then it was mint . . . Lots of turns and berms with a couple of fast jumps

Winter obsessionsWell, winter is definitely here . . . It is oop-north anyway, and thoughts turn towards spending more time in the workshop instead of out on the road. I’ve had an X7 Suzuki waiting to be minted up for a few years now and I rekon I

test I did at Portimao was mint. Some of the staff at Yamaha, Italy have been there since I rode for them in the Supersports class back in ’02 and I’ve stayed in touch with them, so it felt pretty natural for one of them to be handing me Spies

. Interest in 1970s sports mopeds has spiraled skyward over the last six or seven years as a whole generation of forty-somethings try to recapture their puberty. This has pushed prices way up and a lot of the ones on the market described as “mint” or “fully

repair kit and sticking a patch on. Mint!December 2006WELL, IT WAS  bound to happen sooner or later. It's taken six months but I've started dicking about on my Bonnie ! I don't mean that in a bad way or coz I'm bored, I'm not, I still love this bike. It

-stroke single described as mint and ready to ride.I don’t know why; maybe because it had belonged to my dad once or maybe because I’ve never owned or even ridden a big Brit thumper and wondered what they’re like, I went against every principle I’ve always stuck

Like pretty much everyone else at the moment, here in the Whitham household we’re trying to tighten our belts a bit and save some money.And although saving money goes against all she’s ever stood for, Andrea came up with a plan to cut back