Classic Dirt Bike

Two from the top drawer

Vic Eastwood (1941-2019)

In April 1998, I had the pleasure of interviewing Vic Eastwood at the Portuguese GP, where his son Mark was racing. At the time I was starting out on my writing career and Vic was one of the riders I was keen to talk to.

Over the course of the afternoon we discussed his beginnings in scrambling as a 15-year-old on a Greeves; the AMC and BSA days; his move to Husqvarna and the horrific accident he suffered at an icy Hawkstone Park, in December 1968; his fight to recover from that; and

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