Old Bike Australasia

Courtship in Kortrijk

n order to bolster his race fitness and sharpen his reflexes, Edgar was naturally keen to put some competition miles under the wheels of his Spagforth Skangster, but any demonstration of his shattering speed at Brooklands – Britain’s only private circuit which drew huge crowds and was infested with journalists and photographers – would

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