While it would be easy to dismiss the idea of a customised postie bike as a novelty, even a passing glance tells you these are serious machines. Fittingly, each bike has a post theme name, such as Blackmail,ĭear John, Express Post, Post Mortem and Junk Mail. The pair has since created five different models, each in a cafe-racer style.
‘‘We were talking about bikes a lot and then one day I said to him, ‘Why don’t we get a postie bike and see if we can reverse the psychology of a lot of bikes? Instead of having a wolf in sheep’s clothing, let’s have a sheep in wolf’s clothing – get the most pissant bike we could and make it look tougher than it is.’ ’’Īnd thus Post Modern Motorcycles was born. ‘‘He had a motorcycle that he’d made and he’d brought it in. ‘‘ Whenever I wasn't shooting scenes, he and I would be out the back talking about motorbikes and this would go on for months,’’ Watts says.
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The pair met while working on the television series The Hollowmen – Watts in front of the camera and Clark as the set designer and builder. The bikes he and his business partner, James Clark, modify are Honda CT110s, otherwise known as postie bikes. His passion for two wheels began when he was a child riding with his cousin, and led him to start his own custom bike business, Post Modern Motorcycles.īut, as you’d expect from this funny man, there is a comedic twist. Merrick Watts may be best known as a comedian, radio host and actor but he’s also one of the biggest petrolheads you’ll ever meet.
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