I love you.
Oh, my God.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
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Me I'm me. I'm Johnny Ains. I
grew up
In not a very well-off our family
We were the kids at the table when
Whatever was left on the table if you didn't eat it someone when your brother or your sister would eat it
so that's how I grew up and I grew up basically
Without a silver spoon in my mouth everything I had to do I had to earn my first bike
I got from the scrapyard. I didn't I didn't get given it to me or bought it for me
I went down scrap yard find a part of a bike find a wheel put it together made a push bike and that's sort of how I grew up and
I tell you what the kids today. They're lacking really they get given everything. I
Don't think they value
things so much and they don't understand
The challenges in life and how good things in life can be and how much you appreciate it
We used to drive around a car at 15 years of age without a driver license
Around the country because we're a country bumpkin space in corners from Gloucester and my dad when we had time to go
One with the engine we used to take it apart
It's took the big ends out and little ends out put the bearings back in comm rods everything
We used to skim an engine and put all the top back on everything, you know
Grinding the old vows
Everything if you had a problem with exhaust pipe we'd make one so anything mechanical we could get hold of anything
We could weld or grind or meet do stuff with we thought that was that's life
You know my dad was a big big big influence in my life
He basically steered me in very much in the direction that I needed to be in and he looked after me and I missed him an awful lot
And he died far too early and without getting too upset about these things
I wish I'd done more with him when he was able he died
Sort of after he retired he died at 65 and but he taught me pretty much everything. Well pretty much everything
I know when I was a youngster, he always used to take me out into his shed
And he had a shed at home and we did everything a bit of valve radios
He's in the Frankston Art Trail on a Sunday Saturday and Sunday and we would always be doing things
My first car was a 1964 Morris Minor. The registration date was UFH 777 Ultra Fast Hainsey
777 but it would never go above 70 miles an hour
I used to call it Ultra Fast Hainsey, whatever I could get out of it
Yamaha, Yamaha, Yamaha
The great thing about a motorbike is not like driving a car. When you're in a car, you have a destination, you have to get to somewhere. When you're on a motorbike, there's no destination. The road is your brother, your family, it's you and the bike and the road and you enjoy and you can go wherever you want.
You can end up in places that it's fantastic and when you're on a motorbike you see more
and you enjoy more and you feel much more at one with yourself and there's no feeling
like it.
And a cruiser does that for you, not a sports bike but a cruiser does that for you because
the speed you go you can just chill and just enjoy the open road, it's fantastic, so it
means a lot to me.
I had a dream, a ghost came down to me, he was talking, he was talking to me, I was
walking, I was walking down the street and a ghost came to me.
This is a typical guy, we get all the badges, we get drunk and we never put the badges on
so this one is Roadrunners, that was 2006, that's a local rally, this one is Finland,
so in 2008 I went to Finland with the club and goodness me there's enough patches near
to last a lifetime.
I actually belong to what they call Centre 16, the Solent which is the Mad Axemen club,
it might be way out for some people, it's a club for people that, in my opinion, not
in everybody's opinion, it's a club for people who are willing to enjoy life and are willing
to disregard the pre-decisions I suppose that are made on people, the prerequisites
that are made on everybody in life, you've got to be a certain way, you can't let yourself
go, you mustn't be happy, you can't just be you, whereas one of the parts about being
a biker and being in a club, whether it's whatever bike you have, one of the great things
about being in a club and certainly in my club is that you can be relaxed and be who
you want to be and nobody ever pre-judges you, nobody ever asks you, nobody ever says
you can't be like that and that's the great freedom about being in a club and being on
a bike.
Your life goes by so fast that you should live it, live it to the max, live it to the
full and that's what part of being a bike club is all about, is that when you get to
a time in your life, people say you've got a midlife crisis and you've got a motorbike
and things like that and it's not, it's all about saying I have money and I have time
and now I can enjoy the things that I can now enjoy and I think that people get jealous
of other people that do those things and they try to make themselves feel better by saying
oh you're in the middle of a crisis now, but secretly deep down, do you wish they'd
done a bike?
Do you wish they were doing stuff?
My philosophy in life is I'm going to go into my grave screaming and living and doing
everything I can and I'm going to slide into there with bits falling off me.
Do you know what, one of the fantastic things I can always remember is that I have totally
abused my body.
I have got so much wrong with me, the people who looked at me, they were like oh shit man,
you know, without going into my medical history, my body is fucked, but basically I don't care.
As long as it walks and I can talk and I can think I'm going to live every moment for every
minute and every second of the day, I'm going to live it and do it and it's brilliant.
I can't get enough of life and I can't get enough of doing things and I can't be sat
watching X Factor and god damn soap, like what is it?
What is it on the telly they watch, something in the East End of London called East Enders?
What is that?
Do people really believe that shit?
You know, yeah, so it goes on, but why live other people's lives?
Get out and live your own and that's what I'm all about.
You'll find me in my shed doing something, I'll be on my bike doing something, I'll be
out with my mates doing something, if I'm not doing that, I'll be painting or I'll be
decorating or I'll be doing anything and everything I can and if I'm not working, I am rocking
and I'm listening to music and I'm laughing my head off or I'm having a good drink and
having a great fun and that's to me, you know, if I could do that for the rest of my life,
I would be the happiest guy ever and even if my body gives out at me, I'll still be
doing it and I will not stop and that's it.
Unlike French beer, which is really shit, why is it women buy French beer from Asda?
Like it, you know, oh, nice beer, it's really like a bizwater, you know, that's why you
get from Asda about 50 bottles of this stuff for about two quid because it's crap, you
know, unlike Special Brew or something that really is decent, they buy you this.
I look good, don't I, for 50, not bad, not bad.
It all still works, everything works, you know, a bit achy in there and you know, but
I've got a lot of laughs in it, you know, I'm not too old for this shit.
You're running out of tape.
These guys, these guys are classites.
These guys are classites.
Just keep on rolling, I wish I had endless amounts of tape.
They should laugh, this is the part of the film, part of the film I think you see.
We're going to be laughing.
Because I feed off of you, I feed off of you, it's good, I feed off of you, bro, it's good.
I can't believe you're not allowed to say anything, am I supposed to talk to you myself?
That's all right, cool.
Yeah.
Thanks.
