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It may look as if Martin is giving Vic Hanby a kick in the 1971 Scott trial, but his boot is on the rock. Mart is on his way to a Scott Spoon, as first class awards are known, and would win the event in later years. The trials world gathered at St James’s Church…

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Former Greeves race series champion Greg Radley shows the 500 can go… By the beginning of the 1970s clouds were gathering for the British motorcycle industry and by the end of 1970 Royal Enfield and Velocette had gone, soon to be followed into mergers and eventual oblivion by all the great names. The hitherto successful…

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Les could well have graced the tarmac scene, he was certainly good enough. In an interview with Ralph Venables, published in The MotorCycle in September 1956, Archer admitted his season had started badly, something backed up by the reports of the first three events. Not that these reports were in-depth, as for some reason despite…

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To people with a special interest in Swedish half-litre four-stroke motocross machines from the late Fifties and early Sixties names like Monark, Husqvarna and Lito will sound familiar. These brands of bikes came in different colours but in many respects they were quite similar in their basic outline. Most typical was perhaps the fact that…

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Tyndrum was a long old ride from Fort William and a tricky number to get right. “Does it feel 50 years ago?” I asked Alan Lampkin as he posed self-consciously with his 1966 Scottish Six Days Trial-winning C15 BSA. “No it doesn’t,” he said, “but I suppose it must be.” By finishing four marks ahead…

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It’s a pretty standard looking machine, but Chip did a few special tweaks to make his ISDE week easier. In 1980, Chip Howell, a San Diego-area motocrosser decided on a new goal, representing the USA in the ISDT. “I was working for Husqvarna and tried to qualify with a brand new 390OR and couldn’t get…

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