Techincal Speaker Bios

Leo Goff

Leo’s professional mechanical career started in the mid-sixties, when he worked as a mechanic at a local dealership in his hometown of Memphis, TN. He gained valuable experience working on Indians, Matchless, Norton, Ducati, Moto Guzzi, and several other brands which were sold, or had been sold, by the dealership. In the fall of 1969, he opened his own repair shop, and later sold Norton, Hodaka, Ossa, Laverda, Jawa, and CZ Motorcycles.

Always having an interest in hi-performance and racing, Leo’s interest in drag racing found him building some of the quickest motorcycles on the streets of Memphis throughout the seventies for his customers. His Nortons were extremely successful on the drag strips around the south, and Leo became noted for his engine building and tuning skills with Norton, and other brands as well.

Leo competed in National events starting in the late sixties, and soon set and held several national records, and winning national events. This cumulated in his winning the I.D.B.A Super Eliminator Championship number one plate with his Norton Powered Drag bike in 1984, and being awarded several achievement awards along the way, one being the Mechanic of the Year award given by the I.D.B.A.

Leo currently works with many race teams, including Babe DeMay’s Yamaha sponsored Memphis Shades Flat Track Team, several successful “New Triumph” race teams, as well as several automotive race teams involved with Ferrari, Porsche, Audi, BMW, and VW.

John Healy

John Healy is a life long British motorcycle enthusiast. A bit misdirected at age 15, his first bike was a ground up restoration of a basket case 1947 Indian Chief. While restoring this bike he got to know the local Indian, Triumph, Norton, BSA, Velocette, Ducati, and Matchless dealer, Pete Andrews in Boston, Massachusetts. Starting in 1959, it was working for Pete that his love affair of British bikes, especially Triumph, started. In 1966, with the financial help from Pete, John and his wife Susan opened a Triumph dealership in the Boston area, which they ran as a family business until it all came to an end in 1983 when the co-operative closed their doors.

In the early seventies he started manufacturing, importing and distributing British parts wholesale to British dealers around the country under the name Coventry Spares, Ltd.. He still distributes such components as Hepolite, Amal, Lucas, JCC and sources bits from all around the world to keep these Brit bikes running. John also offers the one of the largest selections of Vincent parts in the U.S.

For the past ten years John has done technical seminars across the nation at such venues as Vintage Motorcycle Days and Triumph Come Home Rally - Lake Cachuma, California and will share some of his knowledge about Brit bikes and especially the secrets and mysteries of Amal carburetors.

John also publishes Vintage Bike which is the quarterly newsletter of the Triumph International Owners Club. Along with technical articles written by John, the pages hold articles from the likes of Kevin Cameron, Mick Duckworth (ex-editor of Classic Bike) and Jim Reynolds. John also is moderator for the Triumph Forum on: www.Britbike.com

Don Hutchinson

Don Hutchinson of Hutchinson Cycles of Wake Field, Mass., has been in the business of motorcycle restoration for 45 years. He is considered an expert in all aspects of motorcycle restoration - particularly paintwork - and is considered “the True Supplier of correct paint for most popular British bikes.” His first ambition was to be a chemist, but then he discovered motorcycles. His first was a 1948 Indian.