COVERT MISSION

It’s not often that I have to sneak in and photograph a motorcycle without the owner knowing anything about it—something that was made tougher in this case by the said motorcycle being kept at said owner’s house

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WITH LITTLE CHANCE OF MICHAEL PARTING WITH THE YAMAHA AGAIN, ROB SUGGESTED THAT PERHAPS THEY COULD DO A LITTLE MORE THAN JUST A BIT OF ENGINE WORK… Don’t worry, there were no shady or underhand goings-on, well, going on (that’s if you don’t count me appropriating someone else’s bike for an hour or so without their knowledge). Around eighteen months ago I had visited Rob Parfitt in his workshop tucked away in deepest East Anglia for the purposes of photographing his Honda CB750 (‘Grey Matter’, 100% Biker #244) although, obviously, on that occasion he knew full well what I was doing, being the owner and everything. Back then, Rob was kind enough to give me a quick look at some of his future projects, one of which was an overhaul of…

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