Classic Dirt Bike

Fabulous Farleigh

This year’s Vets Motocross des Nations (MXDN), held at Farleigh Castle in September, commemorated the 40th anniversary of Graham Noyce’s 500cc world championship victory, when the then 22-year-old Hampshireman took the world by storm on his factory Honda, clinching the premiership crown at the penultimate round at Namur in Belgium.

His win followed a hiatus of 14 years since Jeff Smith’s back-to-back titles in 1964/65.

So it was a privilege to witness Noyce out racing at Farleigh, in the

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