Tony...Alan and I have been involved with the vintage movement since 1986 and it's fair to say we had become a little bored and jaded, he with his speedway and dirt track Jawas and me with my Maicos. We'd been pretty much dedicated to those one brands for 20 years and had run out of inspiration. Since we've stepped out of our comfort zone and started playing with these oddball bikes, we've both picked up a new enthusiasm for the sport and have learned a motza about bikes that we had never previously given a moments thought to. While he still loves his Jawas and ESOs and I still have a fondness for my Maicos, our new projects like his Bridgestone 175 twin powered Tyran and 2 Sprite 405s (one in American Eagle guise and the other an Alron clone)or my Hindall Ducati, Boyd and Stellings Suzuki, Cheney Yamaha and soon to start 250 Maico powered Rickman have kept us both highly amused and still involved in the sport. What we're doing isn't for everyone but if anyone who is reading this feels that they're tired of working on the same old same old, why not try a bike out of left field. It works for us.