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Appeal: Help us find the Pre War ISDT BSA’s
I can thank Dave Giles from the VMCC for providing all the content for this Blog which is very much an appeal for help in trying to locate any of the team or other BSA’s that were ridden in the...
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Future SpeedTrackTales Features
Approaching the end of the first 9 months after taking over and updating Taff Isaac’s old ISDT site I have mostly focussed on consolidating and correct the errors in the material as well as start...
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DVD REVIEW: THE 21ST INTERNATIONAL SIX DAYS 1939
I recently had a chance to review a copy of what for many in the UK is unknown film footage of the ISDT. This video is available by internet order from Audi’s online shop in Germany. Filmed for a...
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Our results round up service…..
We have been diligently, with the help of many supporters, pulling together the images of the ISDT in a hope to protect the history of the event and convey how the changing century imposed its...
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The price of fame: Steve McQueen and the ISDT
Steve McQueen‘s ‘star’ shines as brightly as ever these days, and the man is still relevant some 30 years after he left us. You will see his image on the pages of glossy lifestyle magazines promoting...
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What year did Steve McQueen start the International Six Days Trial (ISDT)
Stange title for this blog .. surely we all must know by now, but I have noticed in my site stats, the search engine query list keeps showing ‘What year did Steve McQueen Race the ISDT’ is a common...
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Speedtracktales V2.0: 1 year old April 2013
Map of Speedtracktales V2.0 readership for first year It was over a year ago whilst searching for some ISDT specific archive photo’s I was given a number of photos I had no need for. Such things are...
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ISDT 1936: official FICM Steward’s Final Report
We were excited when the FIM copied its archive collection of Stewards Reports and results still available in it’s archive. These have been very popular with site visitors looking at the download logs....
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ISDT 1958 – daily route cards for 33rd ISDT Garmisch Parternkirchen
Again I remain indebted to my European Researcher and top ISDT consultant ‘STB’ who has allowed us to access these daily route sheets for each day of the ISDT 1958 from the archive collection of the...
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ISDT 1958: Official Programme of 33rd ISDT in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany
Image – scanned cover of Official Programme for the ISDT 1958 at Garmisch Parternkirchen (Courtesy of the collection of the late Mr Harro Esmarch) This copy of the event programme is from a collection...
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ISDT 1939: Day One report as published in ‘Das Motorrad’ magazine
Our site logs show that a number of events receive substantially higher levels of hits (visits) than many events. Two of the most popular events appear to be the ISDT 1964 held in East Germany in which...
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ISDT 1939: Day two report as published in ‘Das Motorrad’ magazine
This post is a serialisation of an article that originally appeared over 75 years ago in ‘Das Motorrad’, the popular Motorcycling magazine in the German Language as it covered the proceedings of the...
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ISDT 1939: Day three report as published in ‘das Motorrad’ magazine
This post is a serialisation of an article that originally appeared over 75 years ago in ‘Das Motorrad’, the popular Motorcycling magazine in the German Language as it covered the proceedings of the...
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ISDT 1939: Day 4 report as published in ‘Das Motorrad’ Magazine
This post is a serialisation of an article that originally appeared over 75 years ago in ‘Das Motorrad’, the popular Motorcycling magazine in the German Language as it covered the proceedings of the...
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Not just about the motorbike: where did the Beetle come from?
A rare outbreak of moment of personal indulgence.. this is nearly my 100th blog after all Photo – KDF Wagen Whilst busy trawling through the vast ocean rich with articles abut the International Six...
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The Great Escape revisited: British entrants in ISDT 1939
Persons familiar with the inter war years will no doubt be familiar that Germany particularly enjoyed hosting world sporting events so that they could exhibit the fatherland’s prowess in ability and...
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ISDT 1939: Germany’s Proposed Revision of the “International” Rules
In the frontispiece editorial in the 8th December 1938 issue of the Motor Cycle the article reproduced below indicates British concerns about proposals being made by Germany as hosts of the ISDT 1939...
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Welcome to the Speedtracktales Library and Shop
When I restarted Taff’s site, all I had to begin with was a website copied to a harddisk drive that I had been able to download in its entirety from his old server. Since then I have been greatly...
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Merry Xmas 2013 and a Happy New Year for all of our readers and supporters
Image – Happy Xmas 2013 and a prosperous New Year #116 JH Arnott 496cc BSA Großglockner ISDT 1939 (Image courtesy TECHNISCHEN MUSEUM WIEN) Thanking our many many visitors in 2013 and especially those...
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ISDT Image Archive: The Stilltime Collection
Recently noticed in the last few months a new collection of very old Photos started coming up in Google Searches although they appear to have existed since at least 2012. A number of the photos I have...
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