It gives me much sadness to announce to the ISDT family of the loss of a popular member of the legion of six days riders.

Sid Wicken – Dad and Grandad – passed away 23/07/2014 in his sleep yesterday – may his Soul rest in peace.

Funeral at St Mary’s Kennardington Kent 12 noon with Crem at 1.20 after service at Charing Asford at 1.20pm

He is at peace now – aged 85 yrs – he had a wonderfull life and will be sadly missed by us all and those that knew him.

WE ARE THINKING OF YOU DAD.

Stephen

#2 in a never ending series will take a look at how we mapped the route, where did it go and possibly eventually feature points of interest along the way as they exist. As this is an ongoing project and requires an element of local knowledge. In #1 we looked at 1938 and the almost now completed task would not have happened without the help of Colin Jones of the West Glos and Forest of Dean Motorcycle Club. Any further offers of help are welcome please drop us a note, especially for non-Wales route maps

The map so far ( this image will be updated as the work is completed)

image – route of event with checkpoints days 4 and 5 ISDT 1933

In order to prepare the map I am using Google Earth although dedicated packages such as GPS orientated applications like Memory Map, Anquet Map or GIS packages like Q GIS will be helpful.

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Thanks again to the FIM for releasing a copy of the results for the ISDT 1978.

Unfortunately the results do not list the medal winners but give detailed breakdown of individual and team scores. The ISDT of 1978 is one of the few events we are badly struggling to find any material for despite it being so recent in the timescale of the event. Hopefully somebody will pop by with a trunk full of programmes, memorabilia and photos.. never giving up hope….

The results can be found and read on our page dedicated to the ISDT 1978

Photo of Souvenir Pin Badge of the ISDT 1978 Sweden

We are getting to the end of the ISDT years and by now the ISDT has become a specialist event aimed at off-road specific designed motorcycles often featuring the suspension, engine and frame technology in use in motocross only modified by slightly less travel, slightly longer wheelbases to make them more stable at speed for which bikes had wider ratio gear boxes. This was about the last year Bikes closer to the traditional big bore single and twin British Bikes that had been dominant for man years made a significant showing in the hands of a Police team although they had specialist off road frames from Dick Cheney.
Photo of #377 David Randall on Cheney Triumph 650 [PJD 18L] in Speed Test in ISDT 1976

Speedtracktales wishes to thank Marc Pétrier of FIM Information Resources who has facilitated the scanning of the FIM archive of ISDT results material and is allowing us to make it available here as a public service. Read a copy of the original Results and Stewards Report at the link below.

View the Stewards Report for the 1976 ISDT here

Thanks again go to the FIM for delivering another scanned copy of the Official results for the 50th ISDT held in the Isle of Man 1975

Photo of #157 Tony Downes #149 of the RAF team

Speedtracktales wishes to thank Marc Pétrier of FIM Information Resources who has facilitated the scanning of the FIM archive of ISDT results material and is allowing us to make it available here as a public service. Read a copy of the original Start Sheet and Results at the link below.

View the Stewards Report for the 1975 ISDT here

The 46th ISDT in the Isle of Man have at last turned up thanks to a bit of overtime action on the FIM photocopier recently. Thanks to Marc and STB for fixing this up, so for those who lost their copy or never saw one you can now find it on the 1971 ISDT page.

Photo of #145 Tony Down passing #136 ISDT 1971

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