1970 That was the year…
The dawn of a new decade is always full of promise and 1970 was little different in that respect. There were those riding high, the UK still had a motorcycle industry… of sorts… our competitors were still the top of the competition tree.
Things were to change fairly rapidly as the Middle Eastern oil crisis would impact on every aspect of the UK not just our world, and petrol prices were to rocket to the dizzying heights of more than 50p a gallon. The world would never stand for it! No one would pay that much for a gallon of petrol… would they? Well yes, they would, and while it might be grumbled at, the prices were paid, life went on, the British industry vanished and other countries’ products were filling the dealers’ showrooms.
But this was
