Classic Dirt Bike

Character building

have to thank John Dickinson for inspiration for these words as he talked about stories from years ago which jogged a memory or two for me. The weekend ahead of me as I write, will feature my own club’s trial on a course I’ve ridden since I started riding aged 14 in the early Seventies. As part of the beginnings of schoolboy or perhaps school-person motor sport I was naturally restricted to events held on private land in common with a few other younger riders in the North East

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