As a teenager, King would pick his mother up after she had done her shopping and they rode without insurance through the estates back home.
They would be vigilantly watching for the resident policeman who was determined to catch them, he said.
After attending school at St Robert of Newminster School in Washington, he pursued his love of music and was a drummer in a band, but when he became a dad at 23 he decided he needed more regular income.
He got his first TV job working as a runner on Byker Grove where he would give Ant and Dec lifts in his Ford Sierra.
King moved on to being a location manager and met Myers, then a make-up artist, on the set of a Catherine Cookson TV drama in 1992 where they bonded over their love of food and motorbikes.
“We got each other at that point. That’s where it was a lifelong friendship,” he said.
A few years later, they put together a pilot programme which saw them riding around on their bikes in Barrow in-Furness where Myers lived, cooking food for people.