With some bikes, it’s love at first sight. Like the Royal Enfield Bullets I saw in the dealer’s yard in Delhi in 1998 that Paddy Minne and I were about to ride the 7,000 miles back to the UK on, one pillar box red and the other lemon yellow, the colours of our sponsors Nambarrie Tea.
Or the little electric Maeving RM1 and the new BSA Gold Star.
And now to that pantheon of beauty I can add the Benelli Imperiale 400.