Off-Road Giants!: Heroes of 1960s Motorcycle Sport

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Veloce Publishing Ltd, Nov 15, 2008 - Sports & Recreation - 128 pages
This book is a compilation of rider profiles written over a three year period which originally appeared in the Classic Motorcycle magazine and with a new set of photographs. All of the riders featured became top men in their fields during their heyday although for some it was the first time they had ever been interviewed. During the 1950’s and 60’s scrambling especially drew huge crowds to meetings all across the country and thanks to the TV coverage many of the competitors featured became household names. Each chapter features the competition years of the riders but it gives an overview of their careers and tries to convey their enthusiasm for the sport not just statistics or facts and figures.
 

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CONTENTS
5
GORDON JACKSON
20
CHRIS HORSFIELD
38
FLUFF BROWN AJS COTTON
59
JOHN BURLY BURTON
72
IVOR ENGLAND SMOOTH OPERATOR
87
MAX KING
100
WASP A STING IN THE TAIL
117
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After nearly forty years of riding motor bikes Andy Westlake is one of the UK's leading motorcycle magazine journalists. He contributes to leading monthly magazines such as The Classic Motorcycle, Classic Dirt Bike and Motorcycle Sport and Leisure in the UK and also classic and off road magazines in France, the USA and Australia. He attended his first motorcycle sports event as an eight year old in 1961 and it is the bikes and people of that era that he writes so passionately about. He has competed with great success in classic long distance trials and as recently as 2006 won a gold medal in the Lands End trial on his Cheney Triumph. He has also toured extensively on Guzzi twins including a coast to coast trip across the USA.

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