Unfortunately, during the initial development of the project he had always promised himself, Mick endured some extremely difficult personal circumstances. "I'd acquired the frame and 4 the engine and started the build; I was self-employed at the time and money wasn't exactly free flowing, but I wasn't in a rush. Two years later my first daughter, Ashleigh, was born and money became even tighter. Unfortunately, when she was born, due to complications at birth she was brain damaged, which of course led to me abandoning the project and selling it on." In 1988 at Scarborough Mick saw the Lambretta chopper 'Nightmare'. "Again, like Jack's Back, the scooter caught my . I was re-inspired, but I ill lacked the money and, at that point, the motivation. “During that time many years passed…
