Dream Garage: Step inside Richard Hammond’s personal bike barn

It’s probably not a surprise to learn that Richard Hammond likes cars. His passion for them is wide-ranging and rather
well documented.

He’s made myriad memories in them, built a career from them, and famously nearly died in them a few times, too.

But his first love, his deeprooted, obsessive, life-enriching and all-consuming passion is for motorcycles – and always has been.

“Just a few stolen hours out on the bike is so valuable. Even if all I do is ride up to British Camp in the Malverns and have a cup of tea, that’s fine – it’s enough. It’s like earthing yourself. Permanently somewhere out there in the world
there’s a 17-year-old me on a motorcycle – and whenever I get on a motorcycle, I inhabit that spirit, it’s just waiting there for me…”