There were no speed cameras, no CCTV, they all knew the risks but some didn't make it
manchestereveningnews.co.uk"I'm a screaming 17-year old maniac trapped in an old man's body," Dave laughs. I don't doubt him – not for a second. Dave (who doesn't want to share his surname) says he has been obsessed with motorbikes since he was 16.
Having been a teenager living in Eccles in the early 1980s, he recalls the moment he got his first taste of "freedom". It was a type of freedom that only two wheels and an engine can offer. "We used to go down to the field on our pushbikes and somebody brought a moped – we were all kind of agog.
It was called a Yamaha FS1E. These things now are going for five grand but we used to chuck them in a skip. READ MORE: The abandoned Peak District 'ghost road' motorists once used instead of Woodhead and Snake Pass READ MORE: 'We thought it was a tyre bursting, then someone shouted fire' "A mate of mine got one and I said, 'What do you do?' He said, 'You sit on it and put a little bit of throttle on and let the clutch out and then it'll go.'" The experience changed everything.
From his first go, he was "hooked". "I'm 63 now and that was when I was 16," Dave said. "I've never since then not owned a motorcycle.
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