Show Us Yours: Graham Garner and Tony’s collection
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Bertie Simmonds
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In this edition of Show Us Yours, take a look at Graham Garner and Tony’s collection. Want to see your pride and joy in our magazine, on our website and on our social media pages? If so, fill in the form here>>
Hello Bertie and the gang! My friend Tony and I thought we’d show you what bikes we have. Tony has: a 7/11 Streetfighter, a Kettle, a KH250, a pair of Fizzys, an RV125, an 1150GS and an YB100 café racer. I (Graham) have an MT-01, a Vmax which I’m sadly selling, a TDR250, a Jet 225, an MZ TS 250, an MZ ETZ 250 (which is gonna grow up to be cafe racer one day soon) among other things.
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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