PART 2 The CB-jeebies!

Late August 2018 and there was a new bike in my garage at home, a motorcycle destined for the racetrack though this time a very different prospect to the TZR250 two-stroke I had once raced.

Indeed, parked up on paddock stands as my most prized possession was a Honda CB500, exactly where the now-returned TZR250 had once been.

I had a real stroke of luck. I was bullied into racing again by Bridgestone’s Gary Hartshorne (who was to become my teammate for the 2019 season), but he also found me a bike that I bought instantly. The previous owner was a chap called Josh Leaning, a leading competitor in the CB500 racing series with Thundersport, so someone who knew his way round a CB, thus despite buying totally blind I was happy that I