Legend has landed on our shores..
Vic Allan MBE (Scotland)
Born in 1945 in Garlogie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Vic started Riding at 10yrs old on 1916 Levis two stroke and won his first race at 14yrs old. Vic was a regular competitor from 1961 onwards riding Trials, Grass Track, Scrambling and Road Racing.
In 1965 Vic won his first of two 250 & 500c.c. Scottish Championships riding a Dot and an ex Bill Gwynne Matchless Metisse and rode his first ever GP at Glastonbury in Somerset riding a 250c.c. Dot, and the following year competed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Northern England winning regularly.
Riding his first International event in 1967 Switzerland resulting in his first win abroad and competing in the ITV World of Sport and BBC Grandstand Series with a little help from Greeves.
Vic became a regular competitor in British Championship races after becoming a full works rider for Greeves and later swapping to BSA, Bultaco, British CCM, Husqvarna and KTMs, and Winter of 1969 was spent competing in the Trans Am Series in America, testing the new Greeves Griffin and riding against all the World Champions.
In 1974 Vic became the first person to win both the 250 and the 500c.c. British Championships, then in 1976 after changing to a British CCM machine he achieved his 2nd British Championship. 1979 however became the year of Vic’s retirement from professional riding. He changed to the Austrian made KTM’s finishing in the top ten after an early accident. Finally representing Great Britain in the Moto-cross and Trophy des Nations, a great way to finish a career as a professional Moto-cross rider.
In the late 80’s Vic started classic road racing doing short circuit and the Manx GP in the Isle of Man. At 43 years old Vic won the very first British Four Stroke Championship on a KTM clinching the Championship at the last round, a hip replacement in 1990 curtailed the off road riding, but 1998 saw Vic and his brother Robbie start racing a Yamaha R6 in the UK Endurance Road Race Championship Series and the 600c.c. championship in 2002.
He has since been training off road riders for over thirty eight years, and for over twenty four years has run Projects for Councils working with Young Offenders and people at risk, putting off road bikes to good use, and in 2004 earned an MBE for twenty three years work with Young Offenders in Camden.
