1952 Article: South Africa, Motorcycle Paradise

Motorcycle Sport in South Africa has come a long way since the days when the speed fiends tore down the straightaways at around the forty mile an hour mark, when one year the famous 403 mile road race from Durban to Johannesburg was run in a raging snowstorm. Today, the sport embraces every kind of competition by the clubs that stretch from the Cape in the South through barren desert-like Karoo to the Golden City of Johannesburg and the Capital of the Union of South Africa, Pretoria, over 1000 miles away to the North...

Pictured: Bobby Quick, one of the youngest speedway riders in the world at age of 5 years, 8 months; Rudy Allison winning the 1952 Nigel 100 on a "Featherbed" Norton. It has bettered 125 mph.

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