Ray Knight was an important contributor to Motorcycle Sport for years, and one of my very favourites. He wrote about racing as a participant and as a commentator. He wrote about the industry. He’d been eyeballs-deep in the sport since he was a young man and he had a fine writing style, as you’ll see below.
Because of his position at the magazine and his skill and bravery on road-racing motorcycles, people would loan him bikes to race. Imagine. In this instance, he was loaned an unlikely bike to ride in an endurance