Gasper cards

‘Thrillseekers’ were cards given free when buying Champion tobacco products in 1929. One shows Vic Huxley (“heading for the chequered flag in a final for the Silver Helmet, after a superb piece of work at the last bend”), while rider of the outfit is probably still recovering! I have read your book Along for the Ride a really great read. I started my ride about four years before you in Melbourne. There were just as many characters on and off the tracks them days as what you had in and around Sydney. My first bike was a 350 Matchless with no rear suspension, a very ordinary front end and a big lump of alloy and cast iron in the middle. Very Kluge’s bike (and one of the spare machines) was fitted with swinging arm rear suspension, but the other spare machine was a rigid frame model, as is this one. The rigid was owned by Eric Williams for many years, and at least one of the swinging arm models stayed here, passing through many hands