MY FIRST TASTE OF MOTORCYCLE RACING, SOLO SPEEDWAY AT SYDNEY SHOWGROUNDS 1970 . . . .
IT'S ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY FAVOURITE TWO WHEELED RACING FORMS, THUMPING GREAT 500cc SINGLES, NADA BRAKES, VIRTUALLY RIGID AND FUCKING FAST !!!!
EVERYBODY'S GOT A "BAD" UNCLE, THE BLACK SHEEP, THE FAMILY FUCK UP, MINE WAS MY DAD'S YOUNGEST BROTHER, PETER, ESPECIALLY IN MY MUM'S STRAIGHT-LACED EYES !!!
Too young to join up in WWII, he was the perfect age to buy a surplus WLA in 1946 or thereabouts and it was he who took me to the "Speedway Royale" when we got back from dad's posting to Darwin, it further twisted my head to total devotion to the two wheel cause, mum never forgave him . . . . dad didn't mind, he used to take uncle Peter before the war with twenty thousand plus other punters as well . . . .
I PINCHED THIS FROM THE LEGEND POMMY STUDIO MOB, BRITISH PATHE, FOR NO OTHER REASON THAT WEMBLEY IS STUFFED FULL WITH 70,000 SPECTATORS . . . . IT'S ALWAYS BEEN HUGE IN THE U.K, RIDERS FROM OZ, N.Z, SWEDEN, DENMARK, POLAND, U.S.A ETC ALL CONSIDER BRITAIN AS GROUND POINT ZERO IN THE WORLD OF SOLO SPEEDWAY . . .
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SPEEDWAY - British Pathe
**** DO SOME RESEARCH ON THE LIKES OF IVAN MAUGHER, PHIL AND JASON CRUMP, OLE OLSEN, VIC HUXLEY AND ALL THE OTHER CINDER TRACK SPEEDFREAKS, COOL SHIT !!!
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