Tom Cunliffe

Tom has been a writer since 1986, and has written two ‘Best Book of the Sea’ award winners for Topsail and Battleaxe and Hand, Reef and Steer. Tom’s bikes have included a 250cc BSA C15 that taught him about mechanical breakdowns, a 650cc Matchless that almost killed him at the age of 19, various reliable Hondas and Yamahas in the 70s and 80s, a Kawasaki GPZ1100 whose performance you simply couldn’t ignore, a 1979 Triumph Bonneville T140 and the star of Good Vibrations a Harley Davidson Soft-tail called Black Madonna.