This podcast features Charles Townsend reflecting on his trip to the UK in 1986 to race the IBMXF World Championships at Slough while still an amateur rider for Hutch. Charles talks about travelling from the United States with his Hutch teammate Eric Carter, his first impressions of the Slough track, and racing overseas for the…

Jane Windle grew up at the heart of the UK BMX scene. Alongside her dad, Les Windle, better known as Mr. Hotshot, and the rest of the Windle family, she was there during the earliest days of BMX in Britain. Jane became the 1981 UK National No. 1 Girl, while her family built and operated…

We talk to Mongoose’s Eric Rupe about the 1984 Kellogg’s BMX Series, winning Round 1 at Hounslow, the disqualification in Birmingham, and finishing 2nd overall behind Nelson Chanady.