"It only took a few hours to tear the bike apart and then a lot... lot longer to put it all back together, with the help of a lot of friends”... Malle Co-Founder Robert Nightingale restored a vintage/custom 1957 DOT scrambler for The Malle Mile - Full story featured in Classic Bike Magazine. "I remember it hanging from the roof of the old hay barn, with some rusty chain and a block & tackle, it was the only bike on the farm that didn’t work, which made me want to see it run even more, it had these weird backwards forks and was unlike any other motorcycle I’d seen of the era. I was around age 7 when I first thought about getting the DOT running… 30 years later Jonny and I are dragging the DOT down 2 flights of stairs into a basement in Margate, we managed to hang it from the ceiling with chains as part of a Malle art show and later that night it would become the centre of an impromptu 2am dance party…with a hundred people limboing beneath it, heads arching back with their necks brushing the underside of the back tyre…DOT famously stands for ‘Devoid Of Trouble’ and looking at this wild crowd dancing beneath it, right now it seems to be attracting trouble like a magnet!…" 🏍📸 @cforcraig @MalleLondon @debolexmotorcycles @deus_uk @breitling_uk #THEDOT #DEVOIDOFTROUBLE #TheMalleMile #TheMile #MotorcycleRace #Race #Scrambler #ClassicMotorcycle #CustomBike #Motorcycle #TheArtofMachine #TheArtofSprint (at The Malle Mile) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb_-sBJIwSo/?utm_medium=tumblr
