Classic Dirt Bike

Where did it all begin?

“I dreamed of racing the likes of Jeff Smith and Arthur Lampkin, Dave Bickers and Alan Clough for many years after that day; something I never did get to do.” Ian Berry

question I’m often asked is “How did you get started writing about motocross?” to which I respond by telling them that my father is responsible for that. Back in the late 1990s dad sent me a couple of Duke videos for my birthday that depicted the sport in the Fifties and Sixties. Watching the videos, memories of spectating at meetings throughout the Sixties and Seventies

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