Classic Dirt Bike

Educating Mr Berry

n my previous column I recounted my first visit to a scramble back in the mid-Sixties. Scroll forward a couple of years and following a move up the country to East Anglia, I would regularly be watching the likes of Dave Bickers, John Banks, Jim Aim, Dave Nicoll and Freddie Mayes perform. At such events my father would patiently explain the differences between two-stroke and four-stroke machines, how a Triumph twin sounded and performed differently to four-stroke singles and that the lovely little red bike that Dave Bickers raced was not a twin,

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