Colin’s Potholes Blog
MGMC&LCC members on social out.
Not all the Mount Gambier Motor Cycle and Light Car Club activities revolved around racing, casual rides often being enjoyed too. This is a Kevin Lock photo and in the 1958 photo left to right most of the participants are named - they are as recorded: Peter Byrne, Ron...
Mount Gambier’s early motorcycles
One hundred and ten years ago (1913) according to Sth Australian registration records there were 42 motorcycles registered locally, bringing the total to 122 motorcycles registered in Mount Gambier. Adelaide manufacturer Lewis Cycle Works had a depot here and were...
Laurie Fox AOM
Laurie Walter Fox, AOM, would have been 96 years old today. He died in December 2017, aged 90. He was a racer, achieving success on sidecars and solo, an administrator, official, journalist, businessman, loving family man and an all round great bloke. Picture is of...
Hogg Manx Norton
Mount Gambier has had many sidecar aces two of whom died while racing. Ian Hogg died at Bathurst in April 1972 riding his Manx Norton. Ian's son Colin, who lives in New Zealand, has informed me his father's racing outfit which had been restored by Wangarrata legend...
kevin lock – one of our early motorcycling enthusiasts
Chatted to one of the gentlemen of the Mount Gambier Motorcycle & Light Car Club recently, Mr Kevin Lock. Kevin rode at the Borderline Speedway as a rider and a sidecar passenger for the late John Smith. Kevin was also a keen photographer and gave me access to some...
Owen was a real character
G'day! When I was writing my books on our motorcycle history I often came across the name Owen Land. By all accounts, verbal and written, Owen was a real character. I recounted in Volume 2 of Potholes a good story of Owen being pursued by an officer of the law who...
Happy Birthday Noela Hellyer
There are only a very few of what I respectfully call the "Grand old Dames" of motorcycling in this area still with us today and one of them is Noela Hellyer. Noela was the first lady member of the Mount Gambier Motor Cycle & Light Car Club and was married to Ron...
New Blog Facility coming Soon
The new Blog facility is currently being tested and hopefully will be fully operational in a day or so. This will enable me to regularly share new content, plus featured older content, on a regular basis. As well as interesting items and photos from the “Potholes and...
