It is a fact of life ‘firsts’ tend to stick in your memory by which I mean things like the first time you cleaned a section, or got the holeshot or, week ending May 11, 1974, p14 to be exact. How can I be so precise when remembering what I had for dinner yesterday is not always possible? Because I came across the feature again while feverishly scouring back issues of in Mortons’ archive in a desperate hunt for information about the 1974 KTM GS250. I knew I’d seen something years ago when, in common with thousands of other enthusiasts, the only sources of information we had were the two weekly papers which in pre-internet days were as up to the minute as could be had. Flicking over each page, scouring the pics and words for the distant memory when, suddenly, there it was. Exactly as I remembered it, complete with Ken Heanes in Seventies flares kick-starting a 400 KTM and announcing the UK team would be KTM mounted in 1974’s ISDT. In the end though the team used Jawa rather than the Austrian machines.
