He's come
on a bit since then though and had a
succession of British made Matchless
machines and still has a
classic G3 350cc road bike of that very
make.
He
fancied his chances at moto-cross
riding, although back then scrambling
was the popular name for the sport in
Britain.
He bought
a 250cc KTM and rode with Bolton MCC
then in 1976 founded Leigh MCC along
with the likes of another Leigh lad,
Martin Snape, who like Brian is still up
there along the front runners in the
veteran classes,
or at least he was until sidelined last
year by a nasty leg injury.
Brian
still uses his twin shock 500 Maico in
modern events as well as for those
specially organised for the older
machines,
having settled on that particular make after trying Yamaha, Honda and CCM
machinery.
In fact
Brian is somewhat besotted with Maico
machinery and rode one to seventh spot
in the
2001 world championship event at
Hawkstone Park, Shropshire.
"I've the
biggest collection of Maicos apart from
Cumbrian Bill Brown, the Maico
importer,"
he said proudly pointing out that he beat Bill into fourth place in 2011
championship.
And he's
raring to go even better next season.
