David is my older brother, we are not related to Martin Ashby who did have a brother called David .
My brother rode at Iwade, Peterborough and Hackney for the juniors. Did some grasstrack after finishing with speedway.
Our Dad, Arthur, was a Chiswick Nomad as well as riding at Aldershot and Wimbledon. When he stopped racing he was mechanic to his good mate Barry Briggs for a while including, I believe, some of his world titles. After speedway he tried scrambling and grasstrack for many years but retired in the early 1970s when a broken scaphoid sustained in a grasstrack crash meant couldn't operate the throttle properly .
Dad died about thirty minutes into New Year's Day this year at the age of 91.
