Bob was a fairly accomplished racer back in the day, regularly becoming ‘King of Darley Moor’. It was during his racing exploits that he got together with Stuart Tiller and began modifying bikes to improve them, after which Bob would prove the mods by racing and winning. This brought the two of them to many people’s attention and more and more became interested in having their bikes modded by Bob and Stuart, so much so that they decided to start Spondon Engineering Ltd, and the rest is History!