Australasian Dirt Bike Magazine

FROM RACER TO YAMAHA DEALER

Your father Lyall O’Brien was the Montesa importer so did you start riding on them?

No I was eight when I got my first bike and it was a Corgi, a folding minibike originally designed for WW2 British parachute troops. It had a 98cc Villiers two-stroke motor and cost 12 pounds, which was a lot of money in 1958. I moved up to a 125 Frances Barnett by the time I was 12 and rode in my first competition, an observed trial, when I was 14,

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