STAFF OF LEGEND
THE DIRTBIKE BIBLE
LYNDON HEFFERNAN
As a kid I couldn’t wait for ADB to show up at the local newsagent. The stories, tests, jokes and Cutie Pies … despite the fact the news was already two or three months old [the mag was printed overseas at that time]. My first ADB encounter was just pure luck – I was in a photo that featured in the coverage of the JMX titles at Munno Para, SA, about 1978, so I really just got lucky.
Years later I got the first of the Yamaha YZ250J models in the country through Ace Motorcycles Liverpool with the help of local sponsor Peter Leycock and somehow we got a call from ADB asking if we could show up at Dargle for a bike test day. The shots we got of this new water-cooled Yammie were awesome and I even got the cover. I hit it off with Geoff Eldridge and he made me an offer to be involved with testing, photo shoots and to train me as a journalist. He also assisted me in learning how to shoot photos. This involvement with ADB really helped my career over the next 20 years. I even had feature shots published in Dirt Rider Magazine back in the film camera days.
The death of GE was one of the saddest days of my life. Although I had dealt with death many times such as losing my father at the age of two and my grandfather (who basically raised me) at 10, losing GE was like losing a father all over again. In any case the only constant in life is change and times certainly changed for ADB, it changed Editors and changed hands and it was never quite the same and I am so glad to have been part of the early years. ADB has certainly stood the test of time, which is pretty cool.
As I pen this I am watery eyed remembering back to some of the best and happiest times of my life with GE, [his partner] Vicki, Murray Watt, then Clubby, Tony Kirby and Tom Foster who kept the
