The Ugly Duckling
“WE’RE ALWAYS ARGUING WITH EACH OTHER — GRUMPY OLD MEN HAD NOTHING ON US. BUT WE GET THE RESULT.”
THE Grumpy Old Men are a former road-racing sidecar team from the NSW Central Coast who, when the time came to hang up the leathers, found themselves with a shed full of fabricating tools, a lifetime of metalworking skills and all missing the camaraderie of sharing a common purpose. So they set about fixing all that by forming a collective to restore or modify bikes for themselves and their mates.
“We built a Honda Bol D’Or for a mate that we showed at Throttle Roll last year,” Scott Gittoes says of a Matchless G50-styled cafe racer that has since featured in a bunch of magazines and blogs. “We sat down afterwards and thought, we need something for next year. Pete said he still had that basket-case Suzuki so we decided we’d get
