On Any Sunday Fame If you have seen the movie, you remember John and his racing dog Kookie. Here is the story told in a children’s book. I saw this obscure listing on Ebay and just guessed at what it might be. Sure enough the Husky riding desert duo were the subjects. I was unaware of this book, but others have commented that they knew it from elementary school where is was a common library... Read more »
Americans Down Under From the pages of Dirt Rider Magazine, here is a little story that I am sure most of you have never heard. The tale of the Aussie International Four Day Enduro. Straight from the byline of Mark Kariya. “He (Fred Hoess) looked Bob Hannah in a Supercross 10 years ago, with his feet flying and clutch slipping mercilessly until it fried completely” Read more »
Team Green Dominates Baja 1992 Baja 1000 Ensenada to La Paz From the February 1993 issue of Dirt Rider Magazine Read more »
Cordis Brooks Wins the Overall On 250 Bultaco Only the one day scores are visible, but the list is in two day, overall, order by class. Read more »
Cycle News Get Lampooned As promised, here is the return salvo from Super Hunky and Modern Cycle Magazine. Cycle News printed a parody of them earlier in 1975 as ” Modern Cycho”. No one is spared, even the venerable Motocross Cat. Read more »
Enduro Bike Of The Year – 1974 From the Dirt Bike Magazine special Edition ” Enduro Rider’s Handbook”, here are what the editors offered up as your choices for enduro mounts. This ties back to what I was discussing the other day of the challenge of picking the correct Bultaco for enduro competition. Few bikes were really ready to race in that era. As the DB editors noted “we’re just going to list most of... Read more »
More Old Bultacos The 1971 Bultaco Mk5 Lobito If you follow along with my exploits on social media, you know that I have dived headlong into the world of vintage motorcycles. More specifically I seem to have gone Bultaco crazy. The vintage world is a labyrinth of nostalgia, histories and legends that draws most of us to it eventually . The colorful story of Bultaco is too long to get into here. But if... Read more »