'My High-Flying Career Pushed Me to Breaking Point - Now I’ve Traded the Boardroom for Bike Repairs' - Yorkshire Live

'My high-flying career pushed me to breaking point - now I’ve traded the boardroom for bike repairs' - Yorkshire Live

After two decades in a high-pressure executive career, a former Rotherham high-flyer has reinvented his life

'It was a constant terror... cold sweat and panic' – how one high-flyer quit the rat race to fix bikes

Former high ranking communications director Nick Sharpe tells CW about the crippling anxiety that led him to something completely different

Back to Basics on an old Bike

I often find something that still doesn’t feel 100% right. These days, it has been the cold start and the choke. After the bike came out of restoration, it had a cold-start problem. The usual solution was to use the choke without throttle, and that mostly worked. During the recent six-month service, I complained about it to the mechanic. He said he fixed it and asked me to continue using it as before. But then I couldn’t start by kicking. I had …