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A New Years Tale....about nothing, really.....
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31-12-2011 3:11am#1...well, kind of.
Way Back When, I studied Motorcycle Engineering in Bristol.
A fellow classmate of mine at the time, a fellow Irishman, was a guy called Mark Jannink, - and came from.........Leitrim. He was particularly gifted - both at theory and practical. I jest not when I say that, if I had half his brains, I'd be dangerous........:D
Anyhoo, to cut a long story short, he got to serve his OTJ experience with a local firm - the well-known MRD Metisse, builders and purveyors of all things fine in the frame and chassis world. He started out doing odds'n'sods, but quickly showed his prowess at all manner of things, to such an extent that when his 3 months were up, the owner didn't want him to leave.........and so he stayed. He ended up being the only person, outside the owener, who was allowed to bend and braze up frames from scratch..............
Metisse changed hands years later, after I'd left the UK, and moved to Oxford iirc, and sometime after that Mark went off the radar. I never did find out where to.
Until recently - he is still making motorcycles, under his own moniker Mojo Motorbikes, and I found his website this evening again: http://www.mojomotorbikes.co.uk/home.html
So, if you've got nothing better to do, you could do worse than look under the 'products' page and have a look at the craftsmanship. They don't make 'em like this anymore.
I had the privelege of riding his own one-off TDM850 special bike a few years ago, and it was a revelation.
Not bad for a lad from Leitrim, eh ?
Regards, and A Happy New Year to all
John
P.S. If anyone knows his family location in Leitrim, I'd appreciate a contact no or something....(his father is a car mechanic iirc...)Ode To The Motorist
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