P30
WIND
features custom matt-black paint and blue illuminated Batman and JB signatures to the specially
machined parts.
The motorcycle will be on display for the first 2
weeks of March at ���The Museum��� in Kitchener,
Ontario, Canada - just outside Bieber���s hometown.
ABRAMS REMEMBERED
���D
arwin would have been
proud.���
I���ve remembered that phrase
for almost 30 years. Henny Ray
Abrams used it for the introduction to a piece recording the
team celebrations attending
Freddie Spencer���s 1985 double
world title.
The article that followed was
equally dry, witty and thought
provoking as well as respectful
and informative. Henny at his
best.
We���d met at the GPs in 1984,
my first year, and soon became
friends as well as colleagues,
sharing rent-a-cars, hotel rooms,
and scoops ever since. We enjoyed a similar strain of dark hu-
TWO IN A
ROW FOR
MULLINS
C
harlie Mullins claimed his
second win in as many starts
in the Rekluse AMA National
Enduro Series after turning in a
stellar performance at the Sandlapper National in Pelion, South
Carolina, on March 3. In all, the
FMF/KTM rider won five of the
six tests and finished the tight
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mor, extreme pedantry, premature curmudgeonliness. And a
love of bikes and racing.
We became closer over the
decades; Henny was a regular
visitor to London, and became
an important family friend (and
benefactor) as my own children
grew up.
But the loss is so much more
than personal. It���s something we
share.
Henny served not racing (or
not only racing), but his readers. There were many of them,
worldwide. Knowledgeable, astute and incredibly hard working,
he simply never stopped. Even
while he was driving at speed
down the motorway from Assen
Charlie Mullins
dominated the
Sandlapper National
Enduro in South
Carolina.
late on TT night, I was astonished
(and a bit scared) when he started answering his emails.
He was at work right until the
moment of his terribly untimely
death.
Scourge of wrongdoers, reasoned admirer of heroes, faithful
transcriber of an interviewee���s
every syllable, Henny stood
alone among his colleagues. He
was probably the most tireless
and patient, possibly the most
diligent. And without question
the most selfless and generous,
by a million miles.
I think Darwin would have liked
him too.
Michael Scott
PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHAN MOORE
IN
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