His Dad was a huge fan of Redman, Hailwood, Taveri and the other icons of Honda’s glory days but neither father nor son got to see much of the bikes when Hungary was isolated behind the Iron Curtain. When freedom did eventually come, the classic Hondas had disappeared but Ronald was yearning to relive his memories and began building cosmetic replicas of the race bikes, using the ubiquitous Honda K4 – the basis for so many current classic race bikes.