Try our new info resource - "Aladdin's Cave" (Main menu)Just added a separate link to Ash's Dropbox thread (shortcut)
discovered women, blah blah...(in hindsight I wasn't good enough anyway :-) ).
Had a few forks in the career path along the way.... Wanted to be a professional cricketer, played county cricket until the age of 19 and then got injured, discovered women, blah blah...(in hindsight I wasn't good enough anyway :-) ). Ended up studying Mechanical Engineering at Warwick Uni - was sponsored through Uni by a company called Ricardo plc, who I still work with / for to this day (Ricardo.com). Also started training as an Opera singer whilst at Warwick (long story). Graduated in Engineering and returned to work at Ricardo on Passenger Car / LCV Diesel Engine Development programmes as a combustion, calibration & test engineer. After ~ 15 years my career moved towards business development / marketing. Setup my own agency with a good friend 10 years ago (MAJOR Digital) - doing digital Marketing / Web Development. Love the work, but the bikes keep me sane...have imported sveeral bikes from the US over the years - some kept, some restored, several sold...:-)...
Yep that's them. Sir Harry Ricardo (the founder) basically pioneered the early development of the 'comet chamber' IDI (indirect diesel injection) combustion system. I worked on probably the last commercial implementation of IDI technology before Direct Injection technology took over. The company celebrated its centenary last year.
I'm a professional musician, was in rock/pop bands in 90s, now make incidental music for film and television, probably nothing you've heard of apart from Top Gear, CNN news and a few other things. Currently working on a feature length documentary, sounds more glamourous than it is, in truth very hard work and poorly paid but I love doing it and I'm not really capable of doing anything else properly. Sometimes have to do little bits of IT contracting to make ends meet.