Keep this date free in your diary! June 9 is when the Clan Mackenzie will be starring at CMM’s pub night!
Tarran, Jan (the nicest one), Taylor and Old Spuds!
The do takes place at The Olde Three Cocks pub in Brigstock, Northants and it promises to be a full-on CMM-backed night of stories of modern racing and tales from the glory days of 500cc GP’s and three BSB titles! The Old Trout might even let his lads Taylor and Tarran (2016 British Champs) get a word in edgeways too…
Free to enter, the pub can do you some decent food and there will be some auction items up for grabs too, for the benefit of a local charity. Editor Bert will be the compere, but then you can’t have everything.
As a child Bertie (well, Robert back then… blame his sister for the nickname) was exposed to motorcycles thanks to his uncles. They would show up at his house with a lovely lady as pillion throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
After a naughty time on field bikes (it’s what we did back then) Bertie passed his test in the early 1990s and became a reporter for MCN in 1995, moving to the sports desk and covering World Superbikes in 1996.
With a change to Bike Magazine in 1997, he stayed until 2000 as news, features and road test editor. Moving into PR with Cosworth, Bert was bored with cars and returned to bikes in 2001 with Two Wheels Only, becoming editor in 2002 and leaving to be freelance at the end of 2004.
With almost a decade freelancing, Bertie joined Mortons in 2013 and became editor of Classic Motorcycle Mechanics, a post he’s desperately clung to, to this day. And no, he’s never had a pretty girl on the back of his bike.
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