When I went to the Spa Bikers Classic in 2013, I became obsessed. Sometimes that gets in the way of the things I’m probably supposed to do, sometimes it drives me onto things that I wouldn’t reasonably have expected to achieve.
I love racing motorcycles, I love racing history, I love endurance racing, and it turns out, seeing all that brought together under the warm star filled sky of Spa many years ago flicked a switch in my head that could only be turned off by taking part. Taking part needed a bike.
The following posts of the Spa Katana blog are about the bike I built (as it's long since finished, I can tell you this with some surety!). The thinking, the building, the parts, the spending (groan) and not least, the huge amount of help and inspiration from people much cleverer than me to get it done.
The original* plan was for this to end up on the grid at Spa to race, and have not only a fabulous looking Katana at the end of the journey, but a race finish to celebrate.
*Spoiler alert/teaser - we did get to Spa... to find out what happened, read the rest of the story!
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