Captain Tom Moore: 'I've always been an optimist – I do believe that the future is going to be much better'
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telegraph.co.ukCaptain Tom Moore, 100, reflects on his past passions, the future - and where he was on VE Day I bought my first motorcycle, a 1920 Royal Enfield two-stroke, when I was 12 – for two shillings and sixpence.
It was broken, so I took it home and managed to turn it into a working, rideable motorbike. When I was 18, studying at Bradford Technical College, my father – who, along with my brother, was a motorcyclist before me – bought me a 1936 BSA for the journey.
I would ride it day after day – there was so much beautiful countryside where we lived in West Yorkshire. In this photo, I’m about 35 years old and I’m sitting on a Scott, which I rode several times for vintage motorcycle races and local competitions in Yorkshire.
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