Sixty-one years ago, the editors of what was then called Motorcycle Sport had just returned from what was then called Czechoslovakia and what was then called the International Six Days’ Trial, an event that was, and is, arguably the most difficult in motorcycle sport.
Though they immediately made cross-cultural friendships just as motorcyclists always have, MCS’s staff found to its discomfort that East/West politics could not be avoided in those Cold War days.