Backwards Glance

The letter about DMWs in RC182 brought back memories of how I came to race one of these machines in the 1967 Diamond Jubilee Isle of Man TT, despite being an out and out Greeves man. After several years’ trials riding, I started road racing in the late 1950s on a special built by Manchester frame builder Bert Foster. It initially used an RCA 324cc engine, then a 250cc Villiers, both twin cylinder two-stroke engines. I and other local lads became close friends of Bert and Nellie his wife, and spent many