I met Nik whilst working at Krazy Horse Customs, a Motorcycle Emporium I worked at as a Motorcycle Valet, looking after their showroom bikes and customers bikes, I gave a dam good Valet after a service had been carried out. I retired to care for my parents but carried on helping Krazy Horse Customs run their open nights. I am part of the Parking Staff, been doing it for around 11 years now, a great night out if ever you are passing! First Thursday of the month April to October... Sometimes I take The Sherlock Homes Bike down to the open nights, it gets a lot of interest and hundreds of photos taken of it, makes me feel quite proud it does! lol... Anyway, Nik approached me and asked, "is this your bike?" I said yes!... He said "I can see your busy, I'm here at Krazy Horse tomorrow getting a bike I'm testing serviced, will you meet me to chat about your bike!?" I said yes again! lol... We sat had a good chin wag and he said I want to do a feature of your Sherlock Holmes bike in the Back Street Heroes Mag you up for that!? I said yes again! The rest is history, a year later Nik got in touch, we did a photo shoot at a local Cathedral grounds in my home town and the result is what you see above!

A dream of mine from the age of 13 when a chap gave me two copies of Easy Riders Magazine with scantily clad ladies all over the bikes, that was it for me, I wanted a bike in a magazine, when Back Street Heroes came out in 1983 I started to buy them from my local Smiths paper shop, I got to I seem to remember issue 40, I moved to Manchester to join a Speed Metal Band, I gave my collection to a young moped rider, who I could see was gonna be a biker one day, he was chuffed.. All these years later a dream of mine has come true...

Never give up I think the saying goes? Cheers Nik.