First High Beech Programme

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High Beech (King's Oak) February 1928

 

Norbold, out of interest, when did 'broadsiding' start in the UK? At what point in 1928?

 

All the best

Rob

 

 

 

I realised after I asked the question that it had a fairly simple answer: “When the Australians came over and did what they'd already been doing!”. As you say, this was High Beech meeting No 2 (April 1928).

I guess some of the more off-the-beaten-track venues in 1928, without any 'names', still had meetings similar to the first High Beech meeting, with people just on standard road motorbikes and no broadsiding.

 

All the best

Rob

 

 

Yes, I think it was probably the second meeting at High Beech. The ACU had revoked its ruling that bikes had to have brakes by then and, as you say, Rob, the Aussies had turned up, in particular A J Hunting who wxplained how it should be done!

 

This Wikipedia Link mentions the early 1928 meetings at High Beech, a reference to Australian riders and broadsiding. The Wikipedia comment carried in the Link reads:

"The first speedway meeting in the UK to feature bikes with no brakes and broadsiding round corners on loose dirt was the third meeting held at High Beech on 9 April 1928, where Colin Watson, Alf Medcalf and "Digger" Pugh demonstrated the art for the first time in the UK."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_speedway

Edited May 16, 2017 by Guest

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This Wikipedia Link mentions the early 1928 meetings at High Beech, a reference to Australian riders and broadsiding. The Wikipedia comment carried in the Link reads:

"The first speedway meeting in the UK to feature bikes with no brakes and broadsiding round corners on loose dirt was the third meeting held at High Beech on 9 April 1928, where Colin Watson, Alf Medcalf and "Digger" Pugh demonstrated the art for the first time in the UK."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_speedway

I think I wrote that!