I first met Austin after offering him a bed for the night as a pit stop on the way down to the 2017 MTWC Opening Run at the Wolverton museum in Milton Keynes. His throttle cable broke 10 miles away from us and after calling a recovery truck, in typical Austin style he managed to affect a temporary repair and limp on to get here. I can’t help feeling that most people would have waited for the recovery truck and headed home. Not Austin! The next day we set off for MK with some trepidation and needless to say there were one or two stops to ‘improve’ on the repair.

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It was on that trip that Austin heard me chirp my rear tyre during an enthusiastic take off. That was it! From that moment on, his sole purpose in life whenever we met seemed to be to get me to go racing. I’m sorry to have been a disappointment to you Austin!

Austin was one of those really positive people in life who never seemed to have a bad word to say about anybody and had seemingly unlimited energy and enthusiasm. He will be greatly missed.

Andy