FROM THE FRONT
One of the few conditions Rowena and I agreed when we started this magazine - 208 months ago! - was that as far as was possible we would focus on the bikes, rather than on the characters who ride them. This was in part an attempt to distance RC from other magazines in the same field, and because we had both become seriously bored with reading tales which described the bike's owner, house, dog, life history, lists of bikes owned and ... So bikes it was. And has pretty much remained that way since then. You'll rarely read write-ups of formerly famous racers and their famous victories, great collectors and their great collections, or even industry luminaries. However, last month's story by Martin Hughes-Games about the entirely remarkable Robert White and…