Motorcycle Classics

Legend Eddie Mulder remembers desert racing in the 1950s and 1960s

ddie Mulder, AMA Hall of Fame inductee and National Number 12, got his start desert racing in the high country east of Los Angeles. The son of the Lancaster Triumph dealer, he rode his first desert event at the age

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