This was how I’d planned it to go: the Lockdown Project Viper would be taken off the bench, given a quick dusting down, its finishing touches added and admired, it’d fire up and I’d be reporting on its glorious resurrection. Meanwhile, its sister 350cc Velocette, that it shares shed space with, was also going to make a sparkling return too, now with a new petrol tank fitted. All would be well with the world and I’d have two Velos ready for summer and nice photographs. What couldn’t go smoothly? Let me begin…
Back to the start – when, to cut a very long story quite short, on Monday, March 23, 2020, my life changed forever.
Suspecting that our then prime minister was to instruct the country to enter ‘lockdown’ I’d decided (at about 2pm) to pack what I could into the car and spend the
