For more than 20 years of my adult life, I’ve enjoyed breaking motorcycles for a living. The crashed, bashed, munters and even minters if the sums add up.
Some people just can’t understand why I do it. Yet they’re often the same people looking for a secondhand part to fix their own bike. But to prove I’ve not always been a mechanical Grim Reaper, here’s some I made much earlier.
These motorcycle models probably date from around 1986 to 1990. They involved regular trips to Beatties to treat myself to a Tamiya kit before I got into dismantling the full-sized versions. And while the accomplished model maker could probably bang out a kit in an evening, I was never that accomplished. In fact, looking at the survivors, it appears not a single one is truly finished more than 20-odd years later. That probably says more about me than the kits.
One thing has changed – I’m wondering whether the Kawasaki Endurance Racer Dymags would fit into the Suzuki Katana? And while you can buy Tamiya kits, these days the likes of Beatties are long gone. Thankfully, I’m not getting nostalgic for miniature tins of Humbrol pain and tubes of glue, although maybe I should at least finish the brake lines etc off… I wonder if there are any model motorcycle breakers?
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