BikeStormer

About BikeStormer
All things to all bikers about bikes, biking and random swearing. Oh and a bit of proper journalism too when no-one is looking.

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Jamie Dwelly
Editor
Jamie's mum recalls a story, she remembers him counting from 1 to 3 for the first ever time, in hindsight she then remembers with a certain degree of trepidation that her joy was curtailed by his enthusiastic pointing at 3 motorcycles and his little face all lit up with dribbling joy. He was nearly 19 and three quarters.

To his mum's dismay he first rode when he was 8 and got his first bike when he was 12, a stolen recovered Yamaha 80 partially converted into an off road bike. Jamie's Dad (and Granddad) had been a biker (he still is now) and was happy to nurture his enthusiasm. He convinced mum that scrambling would either put Jamie off or if it didn’t at least he’d have bike skills if he wound up riding on the road, a prospect mum dreaded.

Mum nearly had her way following a horrific crash when he was 15 on his Yamaha yz100e and he broke a few bones and knacked his back. His disc is still slipped as he types this. Jamie did give up motocross but at 17 he was on the road. After going through a few bikes, the Japanese 4, an original Triumph T140v, a Ducati 900ss he's now still happy and delighted with his trusty Speed Triple.

To Jamie life without bikes isn’t worth a tinker’s cuss, they remain his first true love and mum, at last, is resigned to her son regularly behaving like an utter yobbo on her majesty’s highway gawd love her.

Samuel Pinney
Editor
Samuel was introduced to motorbikes at the tender age of seven with a 50cc Honda, was then raised on a diet of swarfega and British Classic bikes thanks to his father. He grew up on a farm which had plenty of sheds to fill with bikes and soft hedges to crash into (the 50cc Honda lasted about a month). After a bit of scrambling and trials riding on Pre-65 classics he hung up his boots when he went to university.

Now living in London and the proud owner of two hand built classic bikes - both built by his father, one based around a Vickers engine the other hand built from the ground up - he has recently taken up riding again and is border-line militant when it comes to the cause. Sam is currently saving up for a Daytona 675 because his custom bikes are too precious to use every day and he always had a soft spot for Triumphs.