{"id":5108,"date":"2026-02-04T12:26:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2026-03-07T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:02:08","slug":"john-bottomley-evolution-of-the-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=5108","title":{"rendered":"John Bottomley &#8211; Evolution of the motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Motorcycle-evolution-strip-700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Motorcycle-evolution-strip-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Motorcycle-evolution-strip-700-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John Bottomley will be giving a presentation to the TOMCC Berkshire Branch and invited guests on<strong>\u00a0Thursday 5 March 202<\/strong>6, starting at 8pm at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?page_id=430\">BCSA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John will chronicle the Inventions and Innovation necessary for the development of a motorcycle starting in 3400 BC and finishing in early 20th Century when the audience can then add their own knowledge and motoring experience . It is focused on motorcycles but does apply to cars. John will use a few examples of machines, but it is not a chronology of early bikes , or cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John is a former engineer and has ridden motorcycles off-road and on the track all his adult life. He also started the motorcycle team at Brooklands Museum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John gave an excellent presentation to us last year on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=4321\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4321\">GP Racing Development <\/a>which was well attended and everybody enjoyed it. So we&#8217;re looking forward to another great evening with John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bottomley will be giving a presentation to the TOMCC Berkshire Branch and invited guests on\u00a0Thursday 5 March 2026, starting at 8pm at the\u00a0BCSA. John will chronicle the Inventions and Innovation necessary for the development of a motorcycle starting in 3400 BC and finishing in early 20th Century when the audience can then add their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=5108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Bottomley &#8211; Evolution of the motorcycle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-past-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5139,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}