FOUR-TIMES Word Superbikes champion Carl Fogarty has been reunited with his first motorcycle — given to him by his dad on his 10th birthday.

This year, Foggy asked the Birmingham-based National Motorcycle Museum if it could restore the three-speed, 4.8bhp Honda C50 as it was in a bad state of repair.

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The museum agreed and over the past few months its in-house engineering team returned the bike to its former glory.

Now the winner of I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! has expressed his delighted at seeing the Honda.

He said: “It feels amazing to be reunited with my first bike, which I got for my 10th birthday. What a great job they have done.

“I asked museum director James Hewing to organise the project.

“It was in a rough state but I knew the lads at the museum would restore it back to just how it was when my dad gave it to me back in 1975.”

Mr Hewing said: “I had worked with Carl in the past and was really pleased that he thought of the museum’s restoration team to restore the bike for him.

“We have restored everything from the earliest and rarest veterans through to superbikes of the 1970s — but never anything like this.”

The National Motorcycle Museum celebrated its 30th birthday last year.

The Honda C50 was produced by Honda dealer Ken Martin, who made the bike for his son Chris around 1972.

The specially manufactured tank badges still read “motochris” in recognition of the machine’s first owner.

It was bought from Mr Martin in 1975 by Foggy’s dad George.