Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Saucy Seventeener!

Hello to everyone at CMM and can I just say ‘Happy New Year’. I’m actually writing this on New Year’s Eve…

Firstly, I’ve been in CMM before, although it was some time back. My dad, Dave Brooking, knows editor Bertie of old – they’ve had the odd tussle on track days on Kawasaki ZX-7Rs. Dad said he always had the measure of Bertie anywhere they went, apart from Donington Park! Seems Bertie was a Donny ‘specialist’!

Anyways, dad has bought an old Kawasaki ZX-10 through the pages of this magazine as well as a Honda CBR1000F. He’s also boasted about his Suzuki GSX1100EFE which was going to be a massive project – he even asked CMM readers

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