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| Foggy's first bike |
The National Motorcycle Museum is to restore Foggy’s first bike.
The Honda C50-based special that set Carl Fogarty on the course to becoming four-times World Superbike champion will be fixed up by the museum’s workshop.
The bike was the work of Honda dealer Ken Martin, who made the bike for his son Chris around 1972. Indeed, the specially manufactured tank badge still read “Motochris” in recognition of the little bike’s first owner.
Purchased from Ken Martin in 1975 by Carl’s dad George, the bike was given to Foggy for his 10th birthday.
Recently re-united with the bike after nearly 40 years, Foggy was looking to get the machine restored and phoned museum director James Hewing.
Speaking of the call, Hewing, pictured with Foggy, recalled: “I have worked with Carl in the past and was really pleased he thought of the museum’s restoration team to restore the bike for him. We have restored everything from the earliest and rarest veterans through to superbikes of the 1970s but never anything like this!”
Foggy commented: “It’s in a rough state but I know the lads at the museum will restore it back to just how it was when my dad gave it to me back in 1975.”
For more on the museum’s restoration service, e-mail james@thenmm.co.uk
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