John on the 1917 Matchless Machine Gun outfit he bought at auction on behalf of the BMCT.
Aboard the Cotton Telstar he helped bring back from the United States, surrounded by his fellow trustees of The British Motorcycle Charitable Trust, an organisation of which he later became Life President.
In 2017 John took me for a frankly terrifying early morning lap of the TT course with a Manx Norton in the back of the van!