Tortoise and the Hare 1973
Today the Dover Transport Museum posted details of the Summer 2021 raffle. The prize? A 1967 BSA Bantam 175. I brought back an old memory of when we started to ride motorcycles to school in 1972/3. Some of the lads that beat the licence age change in December 1972 when the minimum age to ride was upped to 17 from 16 rode mostly old British bikes. I missed out as my birthday was a week after it came into effect! So it was a year later w hen I was in the 6th form that I could ride legally . All the biker lads had old British 250's but one bloke, Roy, lived near me, and had a BSA Bantam 125. It was ex-post office. It was still painted red, mixed with rust. It had a 1965 C-reg. I think. I would occasionally go on my Mum's 1971 Honda C50 complete with tartan patterned Tower panniers. The trip from school to home was about 6 miles. By bus it was anything around an hour to an hour and a quarter but only 20 minutes, with traffic, on the C50. I would come out of school after le...