My Trail & Track covers, looking for more.

[John Orchard]

The above are the issues I've been able to find, still looking for more  :-)

[John Orchard]

Hi  :-)  Thanks for your message; Most people want to keep their copies, I'm interested in any copies that were printed while I worked there in 83,84 & 85.

It'd be cool if I could get a scanned or a photo copied version of any front covers which I am on the front of, and maybe photo copies of any of my written articles.

Most of the magazines that I've been able to find has had the centre poster removed  :-(  I guess I should take that as a compliment lol

[Canam370]

Hope your ridings improved over the years John.......you are all over the place on the bikes in the pics - lucky to be on some of them at all! 

[GMC]

I've got nearly a full set.
Stopped buying them in the later years as it turned to such crap.
Some of the photo's it was hard to tell if it was a picture of a bike let alone what model.

Happy to scan them for you, just gotta find the time to find them and do it.
Don't think I have many past 85 / 86

[John Orchard]

Hope your ridings improved over the years John.......you are all over the place on the bikes in the pics - lucky to be on some of them at all! 

I'm just spewin I never got any chances to test some Canam's.  Maybe I can test yours and we send the article to VMX magazine?  ;-)

[Montynut]

Almost all the cover shots have a rider that can only use one foot peg at a time   Whats the story 

[Canam370]

Almost all the cover shots have a rider that can only use one foot peg at a time   Whats the story 

Yeah, that was my point too!

[John Orchard]

Ha ha I never thought about that before  :-)

[D project]

Almost all the cover shots have a rider that can only use one foot peg at a time   Whats the story 

And a fresh set of the latest gear.What a dream job

[John Orchard]

Almost all the cover shots have a rider that can only use one foot peg at a time   Whats the story 

And a fresh set of the latest gear.What a dream job

Yeh but I didn't get paid very much, usually around $200 per week, even back in 1984 that wasn't very much.  I would spend a day or two testing a bike, a day or two writing an article and a day or two doing graphic artwork in the office.

Back in those days I would cut-up the strips on editorial, stick em on to a page to be copied, so old school by todays standards.  When I started there we were doing the type on the front cover with letraset, it was really 'small-time' .... as we could all tell.

[John Orchard]

And Bert Flood would only dress me in Sinisalo gear for the KTM pics, then he'd take it home with him lol

[John Orchard]

Cool thanks  :-)  ...... T & T stuff-up?  nah  ;-)

Poor old Les Swallow, you gotta respect him for even having a go, it was a trash mag but I guess better than nothing.

[John Orchard]

Cool, thanks, yeh that's me on the CR250RE but Trevor Brooks on the KX500; I tested it but we used him for the pics.

[John Orchard]

I remember that 125 KTM was so peaky, the Maico was such a fantastic bike, for a 500 it was so easy to ride, and ride fast!  Front brakes were bad and clutch pull was a killer, that's the bikes owner Chris Humphreys on the bike.

Yeah it was good; go to the importers, pick up the very newest model that wasn't even on the showroom floors yet, take it to a track and thrash it for a day or two.  I had no money but I was having fun .... story of my life; 'live for today, forget about tomorrow' .... hence I have no money, no house, no family, a body full of steel & titanium and a walking stick.  People ask me "would I do it all again" I say "shit yeh!"  LOL

[John Orchard]

That CR250RF at the top of this page is my own bike, that was my last motocross racebike before switching to roadracing.  I then had an RM500D that I practised on and tried to roadrace; with the buckled 18/21 inch wheels lol; I soon decided that the Yam FZ750 that I was also roadracing handled a bit better  lol