Don't think there's any interest in motorcycling within BBC programming at all.
Additionally, anyone that's worked for a Japanese company will recognise an extreme aversion to public scrutiny of something that has gone wrong. A very serious view and not to be underestimated how powerfully avoided if possible. To keep that trust, even as employee from a different nation is a valuable attribute in their eyes. Probably low chance of co-operation all round.
The reason I know about it was that DS asked me if I knew anything about the green p.p bike (which I didn't as this was pre- the Wollaton Road story anyway). He also asked me for any other ideas on features to include, to improve the programmes general appeal. So I sent him an article on Lord Lichfield (who also had a Ken Ives special Bomber 450 and an early CB750 as Lord Denbigh .. who owned the Brighton Gold bike). Lichfield had a fleet of Honda monkey bikes and during a postal strike ... 1971? .. he had a bevvy of girls evidently clad in hot pants, plus his mate delivering mail for a company he had set up called 'Rickshaw Ltd.'. After dinner parties he evidently had races around his grounds on the monkey bikes at Shugborough Hall, in Staffs. and whenever Princess Anne attended she always won.
I just noticed that one of the Monkey bikes Lord L had was one number down from Dick Emery's CB750 i.e BYU761H (Emery's was 762H) so must have come from Tippets in Surbiton.
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