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ISDT 1964: Painting of Steve McQueen at Erfurt by Jürgen Valdeig

Sorry its been a while time waits for no-one and I’ve been struggling to keep up with a lot of things. Just checking through some old emails and I think I missed this one from our German contact SB who...

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ISDT 1936:Recently rediscovered images from the internet

Our gratitude to a reader Adam Sliwka who forwarded details of the Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe – National Digital Archive of Poland web site where an amazing library of historic images included a number...

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ISDT 1939:Recently rediscovered images from the internet

More images from the Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe – National Digital Archive of Poland this set featuring moments from the ISDT 1939. photo – two riders at checkpoint #35 Ofeldw Forstner BMW 494cc of...

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Remembrance Sunday 2016:Oliver Godfrey, first winner IoM TT 1911

It comes to that time of the year when we get the chance to set aside some time to remember those who surrendered much or all of what they had because their country asked them to make the ultimate...

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ISDT 1964: newly discovered event photos.

I am grateful as always to our Euro reporter SB who has provided these amazing snaps for our 200th blog post taken at the ISDT 1964 including some of the British team machines. I do not know the origin...

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Classic Enduro – Valle Bergamasche

Thanks to Brian Catt for spotting and sharing a classic video of a major Italian Enduro that was held in Bergamo in 1964, the same year as the ISDT in E Germany that many still relate to the...

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ISDT 1925: Miss L Ball & MissE Foley at Brooklands

I am grateful to our readerStewart Ellison who drew my attention to this excellent photo taken of #52 Miss E Foley with her Triumph 499cc ohv alongside #64 Miss L Ball James 499cc. #52 Miss E Foley...

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ISDT 1956: Official event programme now on-line

With great thanks to our Euro ISDT expert we now have a scanned copy of the event programme for the ISDT 1956 which has been hand annotated to record the final starting list on the first day. The...

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Mapping the ISDT:West Germany 1956

Thank you to our Euro correspondent SB for digging up a route map for the 6th day of the ISDT 1956. We have now loaded it into Google Earth to protect it’s history and provide a copy of the scanned map...

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ISDT 1939: the movie

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, come inside come inside. The ‘Great Escape’ as it was known amongst UK ISDT fans, possibly the ‘Great Escape 2’ to those who are most familiar also...

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