Old Bike Australasia

Rock around the clock

o celebrate Edgar Jessop’s victory in the 1939 Grand Prix du Rock, held on Gibraltar, where he famously carried the remnants of his Spagforth Sputum on his shoulders across the finish line as the only finisher in the 1,000 mile race, workers in Spagforth

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