Let’s go racing!
We’ve already learned how the CRMC was formed by Alan Cathcart and Dick Linton, following a fall out over them wanting to get classic bikes out on track that were considered by the Vintage Club to be too young and modern.
After a very successful initial meeting they now had several hundred members – all very hungry and keen to go racing with their machines. Alan and Dick realised that communication – to let people outside of the club know what they were trying to do – was key. Of course this is Alan’s forte, but also a stroke of good fortune came into play here – Alan takes up the story:
“I’d put my own racing career on standby to get the club started, but first I had to pick up a pot for winning the 1979 Bemsee 350cc single-cylinder championship, and at the club’s dinner/dance in London, not even a month after the Donington Park inaugural meeting, Stella
