Name: V Duo Motorcycles

 

Established: 22 March 2008

 

After saying we should open our own bike shop we decided to take the plunge and do it.

 

After weeks of preparing the workshop and showroom, surrounded by friends and family that had provided words of encouragement (and free labour!), V Duo Motorcycles finally opened the doors to the world on Saturday 22 March 2008.

 

The day was such a success with faces from the past turning up along with the new faces of our potential future customers.

 

Everyone commented on how good the place looked and those who saw it prior to decorating couldn't believe the transformation.

 

So here we are doing it for ourselves and loving it!

Name: Adam Wood

 

DOB: 27 June 1979

 

First Bike: Italjet Bambino

 

Current bikes:

Ducati 916, Harris Magnum 3, TM Enduro, Ducati 996 Track Bike, 996SPS and an 851.

 

First bike related memory:

Age 2, my dad unveiling the Italjet Bambino and my mum going nuts!

 

Training:

City & Guilds Motorcycle apprenticeship at the age of 15. NVQ Level 3 & 4 in Motorcycle Mechanics. Full Ducati factory training in Italy along with Aprilia, Moto Guzzi, Laverda, Peugeot and Bennelli training.

 

Personal:

After out growing my Italjet (friends, and I use the term loosely, would say it's still the perfect size for me) I progressed to a Puch Magnum X, then to a KX80 which I spent many an hour riding and inevitably fixing.

My school report said that if I spent as much time concentrating on my work as I did my bikes I would do well. That was never going to happen. School just took up precious time that could have been spent on my bike.

At the age of 15 I started my apprenticeship at the bike shop I had being working at as a Saturday boy and where I met Pete.

After completing my apprenticeship I carried on working in the same shop for a further 4 years with the added bonus of occasionally hanging out with the lads who worked for John Reynolds while he was racing for Redbull Racing.

By the time it came for me to leave and join Pete at an Independent Ducati Specialists, I had worked my way up the ladder to Workshop Manager.

I worked with Pete for a further 3 years in which time we worked on a lot of Japanese bikes as well as Ducati's.

This particular shop also sponsored a friend of mine in MRO and racing played a big part of the shops structure thus me spending time preparing track day bikes and race bikes as well as day to day road going machines.

Unfortunately the shop fell on hard times and I was made redundant (last one in, first one out and all that) so I took a bit of time out turning my hand to renovating my house in Nottingham.

Enough was enough and I needed to get back to being surrounded by bikes and made a call to an old contact at Ducati UK asking if there was any jobs available in my area.

Low and behold there was at Italia Moto and I spent 4 years there going on numerous training courses over at the Ducati factory in Bologna.

And that brings us up to the here and now showing everyone how it should be done!

 

 

 

 

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