Classic Bike Collector: inside Dave’s extraordinary sheds

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Hi I’m Adam uh and I’m here in East Kent with Dave Moyes and we’re going to be looking around at his really impressive collection of uh bikes um we just have a quick look at this diesel engined Enfield here tell us a little bit about

It right yeah that’s a a diesel uh it does um just on 70 mph and 170 m to the gallon it’s a season it’s a 1966 and it’s a 456 CC and I did go to to Mya on one and uh come back on it as well which is quite [Applause] Fun now we’re moving on to a rather exciting looking Norton that you use quite frequently Dave tell us about that yeah I use it in the Norton club which we meet up in lenam so it’s a nice little run to get there on and it’s a 500cc

Es2 the model of this one is um is a model seven and it’s a twin cylinder 500 and that the year of that is 1953 that’s in fabulous condition fabulous nice it’s a nice smooth motorcycle it’s got the property sace on it we’ll go to a beast that you’ve got

Hiding around the corner here which is a Jaguar engine machine yeah so this this is something else it’s a um it’s an Type 4 4.2 L um engine automatic gearbox and back axle and it was made by a firm for alive who only makes trikes with Jaguar engines

In and when you’re doing 60 MPH all you do is just crack the throttle because a hand throttle and uh loved in smooth yeah it’s it’s a it’s a nice machine I found I had I’ve had it quite a long time I had it about a couple of

Years before I fell in love with it and started doing a lot of work on it now I love it that’s lovely and we actually did see that down at the uh the Heritage Sprint last year giving some charity rides which was very kind of you to do that

Day that’s brilliant that’s okay it was very enjoyable oh you looked at that in there that’s all e type you see this the disc the axles in shter mhm and what have you great procedure uh battery isolator on so got isolators and everything do that until you finish hear it

Ticking choke there which is electric We in the back Thank you to the classic competition company for sponsoring this video production the classic competition company is a UK based business that regularly Raffles off rare and desirable classic motorcycles for people to win ticket sales into competitions are limited and draw dates are fixed single tickets are low cost but you can buy

Multiple tickets so you can decide how many chances you’d like to win into classic 15 at the checkout for 15% off your purchase head over to their website and check them out today okay so Dave tell me this it looks like a fire engine bike but there’s there’s some history behind this Norton

Tell us about that yeah for only one year Norton did 1959 I think it is yeah they did red blue or the silver the gunmetal that they generally do Norton’s in and that was just for one year um it is a little bit special because of the color and

It’s a Norton 99 which is um 600cc and um it uh yeah it’s good it’s quite good and it starts well as well and it really stands out from the crowd as well so love lovely bike the only trouble with it was it faded a little bit in the Sun that

Was a problem with the with all the red ones as you can see there that’s a different color to that where it’s been painted before well not too much chance of sunshine today which is no so we’re okay we’re okay next in line we got classic Vincent yeah the Vincent Comet which is

1951 um very smooth very good starter and and good suspension and I’ve had that quite a long time and I got that very cheap to start with because the Big M was gone so I repaired all that with Roadstar and um it runs very nicely now I’m very happy with that

We heard we heard it earlier and it does sound beautiful that bike um now a bit more modern on the on the right here this is uh yeah that’s a mark 2 Norton that’s the um that’s a 961 Commando which I bought um from brand new until and then later on they went

Pop so um it’s it’s been taken over by another firm now but it’s it’s a good engine um it’s a push rod engine and um got all it’s all handbuilt in donning in Donnington Park and it’s a very nice bike to ride it’s lovely looking machine modern classic definitely yeah so then

Moving over towards the corner we got this uh blue Triumph yeah that’s the uh the bonerville hinley one M made in um hinley of course and um I did Route 66 on that in 2002 and we all bought Bon Hills there was five of us that went on

It and uh yeah great bike and that’s the only blue one they made after that they didn’t make any blue ones because the factory caught light and uh that was the end of the blue one so that’s quite rare as well and that’s that’s 750 that’s an

850cc that must have been quite a trip as well down Route 66 on that yeah it was great I I had the first service in America on that as well lovely stuff and to one of my personal favorites here now I know you know I love this thing this

Aerial Square for it’s not just a lovely engine but there’s a lovely bit of history on that and uh you can tell tell it more about it than I can ever say yeah I had a black one before I got that one and that is a 1952 and it is the Queen’s coronation

It’s called the coronation Square 4 which was done for the queen for 1953 and uh she was in the Air Force in the war but liked the color that’s why Ariel did the special edition it is a lovely bike to ride plenty of talk and um smooth engine it’s all

Aluminum very very unique B that and uh I mean I I don’t know for sure but it’s got to be one of the earliest ever limited edition vehicles um and it’s just Immaculate that I think you’re right there Adam yeah so now we’re coming back to another more modern

American bike the Indian um which you uh you bought locally I believe yeah I bought it locally from The Foundry at Canterbury it’s I went to get the the um no I took the Bonville in for anot and they said you hav’t Rod the engan

Yet have you so I took that out the road and I did fall in love with it right away yep so I bought it as you did and I’ve already used it but he’s got the he’s got the screen with it and the saddle bags and the bar and all

That it’s a nice bike to have very smooth uh it goes very well but it’s boring okay no all leaks nothing falls off well it starts when you press the button as well exactly yeah oh no we can’t be having that well in that case we better move on to the next one

Because we got a lovely BSA but that that’s a special that you put together yourself yeah that that was a road rocket which I’ve made into a um um rocket gold star uh look Alik Clubman and that’s a 650 Iron Head it’s got the aerial hubs in it it shows how

Old it is and that’s um 1961 and on the third owner from you and it’s never ever been out of deal really no it’s never been out of deal so it’s low mileage then that’s for sure ish yeah is um next to it we’ve got Royal Enfield now that’s that’s a modern one

Um which is uh a bit of a modern classic as well I’d say yeah yeah that is um the Interceptor um I bought that brand new it’s done 900 mile very good bike six gears though too many um it’s faultless really it’s it’s boring again yeah

Another one another one but it’s a nice bike to have the other one there is the um motoi Roma V7 I fly love with that v9 v9 sorry v9 I can’t see from here yet v9 I had but I did have a V7 as well it had

Crash bars on it and everything that was a good B it’s a black one like a police bik that was but that’s a v9 and I fell in love with that cuz the tank it’s a very special tank on that brilliant then then we got the Harley the Harley the

These you’ve had a number of Harley over the years as well haven’t you so uh this is the only one you got in the collection at the moment yes it is yeah I I’ve had two um two pan heads I did Route 66 on pan head okay before I did

It on the the Triumph and that is the um the same model as the Schwartz snigger film the um Terminator it’s it’s a fat boy with the um um 4 4 450cc engine and that’s 1450 yeah 1450 yeah and it brings out you’re in a bad boy

That one does here we have perched on top of here a sweet little creature what what is this Dave yeah that’s a paratroopers bik they used to throw out with the with the in a big canister and then open it up when it landed on the

Ground once a bit of work I’ve had it for quite a while haven’t really got around to finishing it off and that goes with the the Jeep which is over the other side there when I go to shows excellent excellent well we hope to see that one out out in the future in

In the real world we have another little part of the Empire which is a fascinating room just full of stuff uh and some very interesting bikes I think we’re going to start on on the right this little gold thing tell us about this one D yeah that’s the um er golden

Eron ARA that was the fastest motorbike in the 60s for the the um the Learners which you could go up to a 250c it’s a two-stroke it smokes a bit um very unique style yeah but you because you have to run it on 30 SI 30

MH with the mix with the petrol that’s why it smokes y y next to it is the bantom beautiful that’s one of the last ones made which is a 175 and it’s got four gears it’s quite runs quite nicely and you were saying that quite a lot of Manufacturers used

The basic design yeah it was a um it was a auto Union made the first look um motorcycle and after the war everybody copied it yeah uh BSA copied it the most and called it a bantom the Russians copied it um and also the Americans copied it they called it a

Hummer yamar copied it and called it a y1 but BSA copied it the most and called it a bantam and that was originally a German design though yeah so there you go Auto auto Union there you go always a good design and uh being well copied

Right now up on the ramp what have we got here this is under bit of work going on in this one yeah that’s a 16h 1927 um I’m having the tank done on that and it’s got P crust bottom to it so it’s got It’s a bit special to be made

That is and that’s a 500 CC side valve and that’s that’s fairly recently acquired along with with another one that we’ve got in here as well which I think we’ll come around to in a sec yeah um but I say moving around yeah that’s that one that’s that one that’s the

Other one which I’ve got the two together and the tank needs doing on that one as well and that’s a 500 model 18 1920 1933 that one beautiful great fish tail exhaust on it as well lovely yeah and over and an exposed exposed um exhaust and Inlet valves lovely job and it’s

Also got a brass car Bread on it as well stunning uh alongside it we’ve got uh one of your two Stevens yeah specials that’s um Al Albert John Stevens ajs because um there was three brothers and they made motorcycles or one of them did at AJ Stevens in W wolver Hampton

And there was a family business there with three brothers yeah and they made stuff for the war as well and 1930 Albert John Stevens ajs sold his name to Coler brothers who make matchless from plumstead so he thought he could carry on making motorcycles they stopped him after two years so

Anything between 1930 and 32 is a rare bike it’s made by Albert John Stevens and it’s got the plate on the side the brass one which says made by AJ Stevens wolver Hampton excellent that is a rarity ajs to everybody else and next to that again is another famous set of

Initials jaap but you you’ve got a really early one which you can tell us about well JP stands for John Alfred preswitch who made all the engines in the early days uh and then everyone bought his engine uh to put in their frames and that engine there is his

First overhead valve engine uh 9 1923 the bike is it’s 350 and it cost 130 guies in 1923 well then you could buy a couple of uh ter terce houses for that sort of price then and it’s even got the drum break on the front but the band

Break on the back and it was sold at as the 90 mph Sportsman’s Mount and I’ve got the bill of sale with it as well terrifying speed for those times I so and the roads weren’t that brilliant no and next to it we got one again I love

Myself which is a very rare four cylinder not not British this one that’s that is a nimbus isn’t it yeah Danish and that’s the only bike that Dan’s made from the 30s right up to the end of the 50s a never altered the design yeah CU

It was um a Hoover Factory with with um Two People Partners in it and one of them started making motorbikes and it’s got shaft drive and 7 the engine exposed valves and springs out the side and it’s a um and it’s all made by hand press steel

Frame is that yeah press steel frame like the Titanic with rivets in itous and at the end of the row we’ve got another non- Brit bike East European yeah it’s a um MZ trophy 250cc two-stroke and the engine’s on rubber a very smooth motorcycle rubber melted yeah yeah

Hugely practical um some really clever design work on that as well I mean the the way that they’ve gone for function perhaps over form but you know big headlight comfy seat cracking bike lovely the headlight stays there and when you move the stereum round i f in

Love with it it looks like a torch but you grab hold of and go out with brilliant grees been going a long time this this Greaves here is the um is the Anglia now they’ve start they made started making Greaves again and they got rid of all the little problems

On it like the balance a crank and done stuff with the cylinders and put another gear on it and electronic ignition so um and that is about that is about two the year 2000 that one and they started making them again greeves yeah because they start the company Anglia started making

Them again as you can see it’s got the aluminium down tube what Greaves has but it hasn’t got the um leading link uh Forks on it so that’s sort of a reincarnation U done so you can really rev it and use it without it going wrong it’s a stylish looking little bike as

Well so hopefully we might see some of those up at the uh the Heritage Sprint this summer if if we can persuade you to bring some more up there give us a plug Adam on what they well Heritage Sprint is a A Classic Bike Race and uh show

That we hold in East Kent in the summer in August and Dave here has been very generous in in uh putting bikes on track racing and also on display so yeah hopefully we will see quite a number of these actually on uh on site in August

So down down here we’ve got some some sweet little racing Kitty size bikes um they’ve got an interesting background as well haven’t they Dave yeah because in the yor rider business there 38 years renting out motorcycles and the most famous was that we’ll see it in a minute

Is a vespino uh which two people go on a 49cc Air Cold and um and I made a lot of things out of that engine so I made I cut I cut them all down and made mini bik mini motorbikes out of them and this one’s got a side

Car on and your Lads used to ride these when they were kides is that right yeah they used to ride them yeah and I brought back a load of engines so I could go in manufacturer and started selling them but I never got round to it

In the end but I still got all the bits and the pieces and incidentally uh vesa uh vespino they stopped making the um the the motorbik because it wouldn’t stand up to the emissions it was it was too fast so they dropped the model but you’ve you’ve acquired quite a few

Spares and we will be seeing some some of the other stuff that you’ve done with them which is in a minute fascinating yeah very unique machines it hasn’t got two wheels but actually this one’s got six Al together there’s a Jeep and something else tell us about these two

Oh yeah the Jeep um I’ve had since um 1990 and traveling to and thr to newor with it every time with a trailer on the back and um I’ve rebuilt it twice I rebuilt it here when we had covid yep and I rebuilt it in 1990 in

Mya and I go to lot of shows with it and it’s um made by Willies no it’s made by EO under license by Willies right for Franco’s Army ah and it’s got the diesel four um 4108 diesel in it Perkins and that’s how it is made like that there’s

Not many of these there there’s plenty of willies the petrol ones but not many diesel ones like I said over 15 years traveling to and through to meor with it and inside there is an electric electric yeah it’s electric bike like the parachut bike yeah yeah collapsible so

You can use it you know if you’re park somewhere and you want to go and pick something up and how old is the bike the bike yeah um 10 about 50 year old that is so here we have another room full of wonderful machinery and the first one in

The row here is a another Stevens um which we had actually have have had up at the Heritage Sprint on track yeah two year ago well three year ago now it would be wouldn’t it and that’s what size is that yeah let’s see um 250 right 250 overhead valve that the that’s the

Only overhead valve that um Albert John Stevens made and um got four gears as well instead of three and that’s a Stevens again which is very rare and that’s a 1931 right so that’s a very early one totally different sort of B next to it very very different the Hercules what’s

What’s this all about yeah Hercules wankle it could be Hercules or dkw made in Germany uh with the satch engine that’s the very first one and that is 1972 um it could be 3 300cc it could be a 650cc what whatever they wanted to say on the day yeah and it’s a two-stroke

Very smooth it’s got six gears and it runs very well and fascinating got a very unusual sound which we can’t hear at the moment but hopefully we might hear outside later on yeah and it’s called the wankle 2000 because he only made 2,000 okay and they sold him right

Up to about 1976 from a warehouse brilliant and apparently with the museums I said there’s only four on the road really yeah this one we’ve seen on the road so the tips have problem with the tips yeah the rotor tips yeah now the next one is obviously where Triumph

Styled their recent Bobba from but this is the original what is this oh right it’s a speed twin 500cc uh 1952 the last one with um the uh mag and um and Dynamo and he got a bth MAG on it and it’s got a sprung Hub

On the back and the color scheme is almost identical to the modern bike as well they didn’t even rethink the color so that that’s great now we come to a couple of beers yeah what we got here right one it’s a golden flash uh 500cc no it’s a 650cc sorry and it’s a

Plunger and that’s about a 1954 they had a lot of those on side cars and it’s got the iron head on it and the green one next to it next one was is a uh is a 500 A7 shooting star beautiful beautiful 196 three that one

Is absolute stun that was one of my first motorbike I had was this one and I stripped everything off of it and made it into a rocket go I look alike yeah and it would do 108 at 7,000 revs would spit far caming CU I never weighed a lot

Then and it was very quick bike and it’s exactly the same as this one here behind you there that’s what I made it into a rocket gold star look alike that one there that’s matchless here which is um a nice big twin yeah this one it’s the uh matchless uh Clubman 600cc

1958 and it’s the only match list that come out the factory with reverse megas on right which are megaphones basically did it for one year and next to it is a um GT Continental that’s the latest model because the early one was a 250 SE racer which all the two um the learner

Boys had which was quite style very much the same that’s a 500 CC now this here is a vespino we was talking about that I used to rent out in Mya I went from meor on it to John gr and lend and then back to meor on it how was your backside all

Right even though it’s got a square seat and I’ve made a lot of things out of that engine two engines in the trit I made and I drove that to from Yorker back here too got it moted and went back with it and it’s a very good um very

Good moped you don’t even enough to Pedal it going up a hill they stopped making them because the emissions were too high yeah and that’s what the mini motorbikes were made out of oh yes same engines so we we spoke about the the replica there but

Here we have a DVD a genuine original yeah 1961 I’m the second owner from you with double rt2 gearbox and GP careta and uh over over 60 mph in first and supposedly 118 in top that’s a 500 and it ticks over okay as well that’s quite a beast and then and then the

Final one in the collection in this room is the one we also saw at the the Heritage Sprint again this year and you were out on track with this one yeah Bonville I had a Bonville when I was a teenager exactly the same year as this

And that’s why I wanted another one and this is totally original it went to America and come back and it’s even got the eight stud head and Barrel on it and it’s a 650 boneville 1961 I think it is or it might be 60 and

It put see only only did blue for one year and a lot of them went to America right and that that’s pretty much identical color again to the modern one that you got in in the other room isn’t it same sort of blue yeah very impressive lovely lovely lovely bike

That’s fabulous and I revved it every three gears I got into at your Sprint 7,000 in each gear and that’s what I like to hear a bike being used as it it really did go well very happy with It and Mr at the B of the to St here we have Dave’s walk-in toolbox which is a fan fascinating little area Dave yeah um everything is quite close in here of course because it’s like like like Adam said it’s my Walkin tool box where I got all Miss stuff me spares

Me nuts and bolts and all that sort of stuff uh this is where I made the um the new the um the Bolton kit for the uh the new gold star the center stand and the ham rail I made all the prototype in here now it’s being made um by

Um um jet laser Jets so I’ll be they’ll be out soon actually going to be putting those on the market to for for modern BSA owners which is yeah I think will be a big plus for them so we look forward to seeing that out there soon and this is all run

By solar power isn’t it yes solar panels and a wind turbo and there’s there’s all the there’s all the the charging units there and the batteries are under there and the um inverter and the charging unit for your electric bike as well which we might see

In a second there these two yeah them two onto them two that’s the electric bike so here we are in in the final room of yours and although there’s a couple of four-wheelers in here um they are very special and I think if we didn’t show show them we wouldn’t be showing

Who Dave is as well this beautiful old CA it’s not just an ordinary CA Dave over to you mate tell us about this no it’s the um they only made U the mark one Lotus ca for um three years but this is an alog together the mark one the mark one cers

Have made 1,10,000 but they only made 3,000 lotuses this is one of 25 with the original body shell and the production line was three years right and it was developed by Colin Chapman Mr Lotus and this is the last one 1966 and there’s a very first tax disc

When it was built oh yeah November 67 and it was owned before me a chap 35 years yeah his name was David Martin he’s in the original log book and um and I was lucky enough to buy it off of let’s have a quick look at the engine

Cuz this is something special every Lotus CA is got the VIN Mark and it’s got to have on it six SSS which that has got on it there and there’s other things like the bump in the boot where the axle goes through um drill marks where the uh they fitted the

Um roll bar on the back and um things inside like the original steering wheel we haven’t got rivets in it it’s um it’s made a racing One racing one and it’s got the um it’s got the um Indianapolis 500 certificate and badge on there as well no it’s beautiful beautiful okay

Show us the trick with the door as well cuz that was quite oh yeah okay so so the the build quality on this this is like a handmade car but I mean you know you’re looking at a car from the 60s and look at the quality of

Of fit and finish on that look at that isn’t that beautiful it’s uh you don’t get that you just don’t get elsewhere yeah this my dream car of my life when I was 16 I had the GT um ctin the mark one but I couldn’t afford the Lotus and now I’ve been

Looking for this all my life and be careful there’s loads of copies yeah and so moving behind you now this is a Ford from an altogether different generation it’s a Ford T yeah it’s a Model T Henry Ford’s first production car this is 1919 the first one was 19

192 1908 was the first one it’s got a 2 L engine every single um model te is made in Detroit there was factories all over the place and they was were to assembl the cars and it would be brought to the assembly line by uh ship from Detroit

All in a flatback and that’s where they used to put them together this one here is right hand drive and this was assembled in um Old Trafford at Manchester in 1919 which I’ve got the certificate for and the chassis and the chassis and fast they they designed it to to make it

Robust and uh they very yeah the rows were very rough and muddy in 1908 so Henry Ford made it twists all over the place so it don’t crack up look at this look it all moves about all over the place when you go over the bumps so that it flexes not fracturing

No and you can go one will up the bank there and you look behind you and the back is straight it twists that much on the back of the engine the gearbox is a big ball joint that makes the engine move totally different for the rest of

The chassis fasc and and the steel that it was constructed from is pretty special as well rust free apparently yeah the it’s Canada steel and it’s got it’s got um cadmium in it right and when you try to drill it’s very difficult to drill that’s why it didn’t rust yeah

Well it’s be it’s a beautiful piece of Kit and I think and it Al together he made 15 million and you’ve got one of them yeah one of them yeah look many left now they oh not many left but you could you can get the spares no problem

At all from in America and also there’s the clubs of course and I I think it’s it’s a worthy addition to the the classic motorcycle Channel as well so and we’re going to finish up with the last two bikes in your collection I could tell you a lot more about this but

Bit short I’ve been short for quite a while mate um we’re going to move back to the the last two bikes in this collection um two quite different Beast the T3 guzy which you you’ve had for a while yeah um this is a Movin electric which does um on two

Batteries 80 mile and a speed of 50 mph and you got three settings one setting is for 20 mph for the speed limit won go over that then you go through a 30 mph that’s number two setting it won’t go over 30 and then number three is 50 mph

Like cruise control yeah very cool and it’s a stylish looking little thing as well very very the bag comes off the back just like that with the little bracket on it go shopping with yeah it’s your own private handbag yeah but I had to make a um a

Rack for the back so I could get get something else on the back of it so I made that and put it on very neat looks looks like Factory stuff and got it powder coated yeah looks really tasty um and then the final one here is is the guzy um beautiful beautiful condition

Very unus quite an unusual color yeah it’s um it’s the um 850 T3 and the T3 is when you put your foot brake on three Brakes come on cuz you got two discs at the front and one braking system on that one yeah yeah yeah now that’s um very

Beautiful and the same this B I used to travel four years when I first started in the yor in 1982 um two and throw to New Yorker on one of these for four years lovely bike looks a nice comfortable seat as well it’s a very comfortable tour yeah motor gy

850cc we have a an impressive sign here death Hill what’s that all about well in the 60s um there was a hill on the old um in the old um A2 past Johnson’s and carry on a bit further up near BR at where you come out

To there and it was a a hill which everyone went down in the 60s if they couldn’t get 100 m an hour on the bike but down death Hill it wasn’t Called Death Hill then you could get a ton out your bike the magic ton in the

60s so the council put the sign up because there’s a lot of PE accidents happening in my m bikes and they put the sign up death Hill at the bottom of it trying to discourage some people right but that carried on through the 60s and then in the 70s the council put the

Original sign back up there and auctioned off death ill sign and it went for quite a lot of money then so this is the early ’70s and that is the original sign and you can see where people have scratch stuff in it and they tried to

Rip it off the post and there’s the original benmark and I have got photographs from the 60s with people side to side on their bike when you’ve um zoom in on it you can see the scratches but it’s been certified it’s original sign impressive you’re obviously well into your bsas but you’ve

Also got this modern gold star and you’ve done a few bits to this um we heard about the center stand earlier but tell us what else you’ve managed to do with this bike uh yeah um altered the rear mud guard so cuz I as you see I’ve

Got the original gold star and I knew what I was going to to do with this when I ordered it um alter the mud guard alter this and alter that so what I’ve done is put the wider mud guard on the back that goes right the way down metal also the number plate

Holder uh got another number for it uh 3×3 three letters and three numbers and put that on the or box really is the other side you take the case off to get to it but I’ve put here imitation oril box like the real gold stars got with the cap

There and the oil level there love it and polish that up on the gearbox uh took the S the baffle out the back so it sounds more like a gold star m b should look like around this side is here is a damper which all the old bikes us have a

Damper on it put the proper Hooter on the side the classic Hooter put a a little extension on the um the side stand so brings it up a little bit more instead of laying right over behind there is original or box so I put a cover over that to make it look

Like a tool box with the screw on it really yeah I’m very happy with it and so far I don’t I haven’t had it that long and I’ve done 7,000 m with it and I’ve used it all through the winter very happy with it but now I’ve

Designed a center stand it’s a bolt on Center stand and it’s a kit so you got a handle here the lever comes up there and you push that down and the center stand goes up and it works very nicely cuz BSA are not making one so I thought I would

Design one and now it’s been all um um jet flowed I think it is all cut out of the metal for my prototype Y and we’ll hopefully uh be putting it on the market fairly soon yeah I’ve sold five already brilliant I imagine there be a big

Demand for that as you say Center stand is a is a is a very practical thing exactly well you got to have a center stand because you got to clean your wheel yeah and you lift the front up like that and you clean the front wheel

And you o your chain and you can get your rear wheel out if you get a puncher cuz you know got off the side of a curb with the center stand and drop the wheel out well I I wish you luck with that cuz I suspect you’ll do you’ll do very well

I think we got to say big thanks to Dave for for for all his time today really it’s been a fascina it will trip down various Memory Lanes both of Dave’s and and mine and everybody else’s I expect um great stuff thanks very much and hopefully we’ll see you the bikes um

Down at the Heritage Sprint in the summer this year this year and uh see the things in the flesh there thanks very much