Monthly Archives: February 2014

ISDT 1961: Official Programme for Llandrindod Wells, Wales

24 Monday Feb 2014

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I am grateful to Bill Kershaw one of our home nation welsh riders in the ISDT 1961 who has loaned me his copy of the event programme which we now have scanned and added to our online library over at issuu.com

Image - scanned cover of Official Programme ISDT 1961 (Courtesy Kershaw Collection)

Image – scanned cover of Official Programme ISDT 1961 (Courtesy Kershaw Collection)

You can read the program by following the link to our library at issuu.com

(at present due to changes at Issuu and standards in use at WordPress it is not presently to add new embedded copies of Issuu documents in WordPress pages and you will need access this file by the above link .The file requires a user to have a flash plug-in so will not work with a number of digital devices including iPad and iPhone, we are sorry for the nuisance this causes and hope it is fixed soon)

The programme includes an image gallery of each years ISDT event from ISDT 1948 in Italy through to the ISDT 1960 Austria. I have included the photos from that set below.

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ISDT 1961: Sketches by Gordon Horner

06 Thursday Feb 2014

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A copy of ‘the Motor Cycle‘ of 19th October 1961 was keenly opened for the first time today to find a collection of interesting post ISDT 1961 event notes which will appear in a future blog. But of a greater interest to me where a series of sketches made of the event by Gordon Horner. Those not familiar with the man who was a well respected artist and lived 1915 to 2008 and was the last of the major artists working for ‘Autocar‘. I was particularly pleased and surprised to find these drawings and would love to see the originals if they still exist, probably hung framed on the walls of the family of ex-staffer at the old magazine or its publishers and today quite a collectible item.

The motorcycle artists still exist with painters like Robert Kinsey actively covering the motocross scene on canvas mostly for commissioned works by the industry but in the media the use of the artist has largely vanished to be replaced by CAD and 3D design.

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image - scanned art work by Gordon Horner - 'the Motor Cycle' ISDT 1961

image – scanned art work by artist Gordon Horner – ‘the Motor Cycle‘ ISDT 1961

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1968: ACU Revolutionary proposals for pepping up the International Six Days Trial

05 Wednesday Feb 2014

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Olga Kevelos was one of the foremost and often admired of the women riders of the ISDT very forceful and singleminded when needed which as a rider gave perfect qualities to compete against and beat men with skill rather than brute strength. However she was know to throw the odd curved ball once in a while in her passion to seek change and improvement in motor cycle sport.

A recent trip to the museum of eBay found an old copy of the tabloid format edition of British weekly ‘Motor Cycle incorporating Motor Cycling‘ of the 14th of February 1968 with a headline “Six Days Scramble Plan – Olga demands ISDT Shake-up”

Photo - Front page of 'Motor Cycle' 14th February 1968 on proposals to change the ISDT rules.

Photo – Front page of ‘Motor Cycle‘ 14th February 1968 on proposals to change the ISDT rules.

I was able to glean the following information of a radical proposal to restructure the ISDT being put forward by Olga Kevelos on behalf of the Midland Centre of the ACU.

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ISDT 1961: Event report Das Motorrad – 21 October 1961

03 Monday Feb 2014

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I was pleased to discover a copy of Das Motorrad covering the ISDT of 1961 in Wales. As much as I am a fan of the quality British Bike Magazines of the period ‘the Motor Cycle‘ and ‘Motor Cycling‘ both of which provided quality detailed reporting and opinion on the events with good journalists. I have also found ‘Das Motorrad‘, even despite my non existent German language skills, provides a superior standard of Quality in a magazine whilst is surprisingly devoid of much of the advertising and classified that fills so much of the English magazines.

image - cover of Das Motorrad #22 25 Oct 1961

image – cover of ‘Das Motorrad‘ #22 25 Oct 1961

I’m going to try to get the article translated and made available via our Issuu library but for now here are the images of the article with their German captions, and my comments in English as appropriate.. many of these images will not have been seen in Britain before.

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Mapping the ISDT: Wales 1961

01 Saturday Feb 2014

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I am starting the preparation to mapping all the ISDT’s, especially our home nation ones in the UK. Work is commencing as detailed mapping or advice on the route becomes available. Thanks to the kind intervention of Bill Kershaw, we now have a copy of the ISDT 1961 Programme which includes a detailed map with Ordnance Survey detail for the route of each days course in 1961. Whilst work is committed ot existign projects I have posted the maps we have here and hope if anyone has additional information that can help, please drop a line in the comments here or on the guest book

image - scanned map of routes for days 1, 2 and 3 of ISDT 1961 (Speedtracktales Archive)

image – scanned map of routes for days 1, 2 and 3 of ISDT 1961 (Speedtracktales Archive)

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Mapping the ISDT: 1965 Isle of Man

01 Saturday Feb 2014

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In preparation for the ongoing project to try to map all routes for every ISDT, I’ve acquired a map for the ISDT 1965 from the official Programme. If anybody has any more information about the exact locations of checks etc I would always be grateful to get them for when I turn my attention to this event.

Image - scanned copy of map of event route ISDT 1965 (Speedtracktales archive)

Image – scanned copy of map of event route ISDT 1965 (Speedtracktales archive)

This is a low resolution copy I have a master image scanned at 300dpi and would like to very much thank the generosity of Graham Forsdyke, one time writer for ‘the Motor Cycle‘, ‘Motor Cycling‘ who covered a number of ISDT events and made this copy of the programme available for our further research needs.

The Putoline Telford Twin Shock, Classic and Road Race Show 22/23rd February 2014

01 Saturday Feb 2014

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Back again is Alan Wright’s fantastic bike show dedicated to the old days with a strong representation not only by Off-road but also Enduro and ISDT. A popular feature of the show is not only the access to old bikes but presentations and talks from soem of the past celebrities of the industry both as riders or in the development of bikes and events.

The main themes for 2014 are:

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