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Charlie Just Loves Bikes

Charlie Just Loves Bikes

Date: 2013-02-28
Forty-two years ago Charlie Botha entered his national service for 2 years. That was where his interest in motorbikes took hold and started to grow. Little did Charlie know then that it would became a lifelong passion.

For the next forty years Charlie worked in various motorcycle shops all over South Africa, building up an extensive knowledge of motorcycles and engine repairs for a wide variety of different engines. Charlie is just as happy working on quad bikes as he is on a two-stroke dirt bike.

Charlie is old school and is not fussy when servicing old bikes, late models, Chinese or entry-level cheapies. At the present he is still working on motorcycles doing general repairs, services, general mechanical problems, but excluding complicated wiring problems and computerized injection systems.

Charlie is well known for his outstanding quality workmanships. "Working on motorcycles is still a passion and will always be something I love doing, not forced to do." Says Charlie.