Stan Currington

First published in MX and Off Road magazine. Volume 15 Issue 02 – Summer 2016 I first met 1979 Canadian Open Class Motocross Champion Stan Currington in April of 1980 at an international motocross race in Thouars, France. Stan’s performance made me proud to be a Canadian. He was the consummate privateer, driving to the […]

Seppo Makinen

Born 1939 in Finland Seppo Makinen was born in 1939 in Finland. He started racing motorcycles in 1955 at the age of 16.  He would race for 10 years before he decided to move to Canada in 1966. At some point in those 10 years Seppo won the Finland Junior scrambles title. 1967 – Seppo […]

Serge Gregoire

Quebec’s Gregoire Family By Lawrence Hacking for 2018 MX and Off Road Magazine The Gregoire family name has been a fixture in Quebec motorsports since 1967 when Roland Gregoire became a Yamaha snowmobile dealer. His family grew quickly, with four boys and a burgeoning dealership his sons naturally gravitated towards racing. Eldest son Daniel set […]

Wally Levy 

Livin’ Large Wally Levy comes from the consummate motocross family. His father, Walter Levy, promoted races in BC’s lower mainland for 22 years at Little Rock Raceway. Wally has two brothers, Henry and Bob, who both raced before him. His sisters, Betty and Annie, were fixtures at the BC races and lap-scored at Little Rock. […]

Allan Jaggard

Allan Jaggard started Racing in 1972 and by 1974 won the Junior Championship in the Molson’s Ontario Motocross Series. Then in 1975 he won the Senior Class in the Molson’s series and came in second in the Laurentide Series. In 1976, his first year as an expert he placed 4th in the Molson series. After […]

Allan Logue

This story first published in MX and Off-Road 2016 issue 1 Al Logue is one of those iconic Canadian racers of the ’70s and ’80s whose story should be told. Al grew up in Hamilton, ON, and at 16 years old he was riding a Yamaha DT-1 on the street until a serious accident sent […]

Jeff Sutherland

This last season(2022) was my first year back after many years away and I finished 5th at the walton trans can in the +50 class. I also finished 5th in the +55 expert class at Glen Helen world vet championship. I have lots of room to improve for 2023 and I believe this will happen. […]

Larry Mackenzie

First Published in Cycle Canada July 1977 BY JOHN COOPER A long, dark scar curves down the inner side of Larry MacKenzie’s right knee, it has 45 stitches and he calls it “the smile. ” It resembles a pair of handlebars, and he jokes about having a cross-brace tattoed on it. But it’s not really […]

Larry Bastedo

A pillar of the sport since before many of us graduated from a tricycle Larry Bastedo has demonstrated his commitment to motorcycling for more than a half-century and shows no sign of letting up today. His passion for the sport earned him expert status in scrambles and enduros, senior class in road racing, trials and […]

Zoli Berenyi Sr.

A legendary dedication to the sport of motocross continuing well into his 70’s Zoli Berenyi Sr. moved his family to Canada from Hungary in 1957. Motorcycles had been his primary mode of transportation in the old country and upon arrival in Edmonton he decided to take up racing Scrambles (the original MX) at age 25. […]