Full Chat podcast: Titch Cormack reveals all about The Speedshop and customising motorbikes
Television personality and former special forces operator Titch Cormack is the latest guest on the second series of motorcycling podcast Full Chat.
He is joined by hosts Iwan Thomas and footballer-turned-presenter David Prutton to discuss his time on BBC Two show The Speedshop, working in the military and his SBomb workshop that customises and transforms motorcycles.
He also displayed his engineering capabilities to upcycle vintage bikes and furniture respectively from his SBomb workshop in the programme Saved and Remade.
Titch Cormack on making bikes in honour of former Marine
Cormack, who also raced for the Royal Navy Royal Marines road race team, opened up about the death of a customer, who was also in the forces, and how they are naming a line of custom bikes after him.
“It’s called Roy’s Build and this is the one Project Pit Stop was coming in, and the guys get together and each time they come in, we do a bit more”, Cormack revealed.
“Everyone has their input, so their design and shape and the style of the bike has been put together by the guys. And Roy was a wonderful old boy who used to come down the shop all the time, he was an ex-parachute regiment guy from World War 2, he was superb.
“I’d hear him coming well before I saw him because he was deaf as a post, but he used to call me marine. ‘Marine!’ he’d shout and I’d go ‘hey up Roy’; yeah fantastic old boy he was, full of great stories. But unfortunately he passed away about two months ago and his family donated some money to the shop because they knew how much he loved coming down here and we looked after him.
“So what we decided to do was buy an old motorcycle and we would create the ‘Roy’s Build’, and I’m hoping this will be ongoing. So the builds that we will do for Project Pit Stop will be ‘Roy’s Build’ so we’ll name Roy’s One, Roy’s Two etc and we’ll build these bikes and it’s fantastic to be able to do this for people, and it’s proven to be really popular actually.
“You’d have loved the guy if you’d met him, he was fantastic. He used to come in and still wear his beret.”
Plenty more episodes of Full Chat to enjoy
Series two is off and running, but we’ve also got a host of episodes for you to listen to if you’ve missed the previous series of our motorcycling podcast.
You can listen to Full Chat on Spotify, Apple, YouTube or various other platforms if you want to see what all the fuss is about.
