Was it THAT Mark Williams?

Just watched a "Love or Money" episode on Channel 4 tonight, about this poor
publishing executive who got embroiled in a love affair with a drug
trafficker.

Called Mark Williams, rode a bike, publishing. Could it be the first editor
of "Bike", the creator of "Jalopy", Running out of Road, Highway 66
Revisited and all that? Always had a bit of a penchant for the illegal. Had
a great chum called Felix Dennis - maybe of Dennis Publishing fame?

Poor bastard.

Gerald

 

Yes, same guy. Bugger, I wanted to watch that.

He is now.

 

If anyone's interested (and maybe most know anyway), some of his writings
when he came back from "his enforced hiatus" as he calls it, are online at
http://www.paganotter.org.uk/misc/insidel/insidel1001.html and further
columns are available from links at the bottom. I feel quite sad for the
poor sap. Maybe TOG knows him through his *dealings* in the same trade. I
mean the bike rags, of course ....

 

Geraldo says...

He happens to be a close friend of our very own TOGster.

 

Um, not *that* close ;-)

He's a helluva nice guy, mind. And he's rebuilt his life a lot since
that programme was made, so hats off.

 

http://www.realclassic.co.uk/opinion03091500.html

I would buy a Royal Enfield with an electric starter.
Real bikers only need one cylinder (and an electric starter).

He's the fella!

 

Mark Williams does indeed write a monthly column for RealClassic, but that
link goes to one of someone else's.

 

Well come on, man, post the right one...

 

Yep. he kicked off[1] with kung fu magazines in the late 1970s, started
a publishing company called Bunch Books, moved into all sorts of
ventures. Got the golden touch, no question.

[1] Ha!

 

(The Older Gentleman) struggled
to ejaculate:

You mean "HEE-YAH!", I believe.

Good attempt, though ;-)

 

He's only been in the paper version of the magazine so far, and if I try and
tell you that it's only available by subscription from
http://www.RealClassic.co.uk/subscribe you'll only moan at me for despoiling
the purity of a news group with a commercial posting...

 

That's where I've seen him, because I've already subscribed. This isn't
necessarily a good thing - the only other bike mag I've subscribed to in
recent years was MotoRetro...

 

You're talking to a man who bought a bike off Timo...

 

the cont known as RealMart says...

And it's running well? I know mine did before the accident.

 

<laughs>
<points>

Actually, I'm talking to a man who doesn't snip sigs.

 

That better?

)

 

I think the phrase "more enthusiasm than skill" applies here...

 

platypus pibbled:

Anorak may put in an appearance as well.