SELLICKS Beach is an ideal scenario for beach racing with the underlying pebbles providing a solid base for the sand, which firms up and smooths out after each high tide. With this in mind, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the beach has been used for bike and car racing since the earliest days of motoring, with offi cial motorcycle races commencing in the mid-1920s.
These were speed trials organised by the Levis Social Club — not for denim-clad hipsters looking for love, but for enthusiast owners of British-built two-stroke Levis motorcycles — on the Australia Day weekend each January. With a break for WWII, the club continued the races until 1957, by which time bike competition was conducted on various circuits around the
