IN BALANCE
Remember the long hot summer of 1976, for decades the yardstick for gauging extreme temperatures? Yes, it was 46 years ago and the effect on motorcycle sport at the time was quite significant, with events cancelled due to fears of uncontrollable fires starting because of mixing a hot exhaust and tinder-dry ground. It became so bad as the dry spell lasted two months that emergency powers were granted in Parliament and the government of the day appointed Denis Howell as Minister for Drought. It
