The Manchester Lyon who roared to success
Ian Mycock or ‘Iggy’, as he was known to his clubmates, started his scooter career in 1965 by way of an old silver Vespa GS, immediately painted bright red once in his possession. At just 16 years of age he passed his motorbike test, eager to get out on the road with his older brother and friends. It was his brother who had first introduced him to it all by taking him to the 1965 IoM scooter week where he raced for Mancunians Sporting Scooter Club, a breakaway club from the Manchester Lyons. Still only 15 at the time, Ian was only able to spectate but that didn’t mean he didn’t want to join in and over the next few years would regularly attend events. A lot of these were off-road trials, grass track racing and scrambling or rallies in general as
