Logical development
Terry Pickering, it’s fair to say, has a thing about AJS Stormers, owning several of the two-stroke 250s and 370s. Growing up with AJS development engineer David ‘Fluff’ Brown as a friend of the family, it could hardly be otherwise. “I knew Fluff Brown as Uncle Fluff,” Terry told me, “because my dad ran Stormer Motocross so he and Fluff knew each other well. Because dad ran the business I of course rode a 250 Stormer in motocross, but by the late 1970s it was getting outclassed. I can still remember the Maicos coming past me.”
AJS was one of the oldest British motorcycle marques but by the time the Stormer first appeared, was a minor cog within Norton-Villiers. Launched in 1969 as a 250 based around the
