cycle , though that would change the year Bruce and Malcolm visited . Mike Gibbon from Grants Pass , Oregon , rode a modified 750 Triumph hillclimber with chains on the rear tire and nitro-methane fuel in the tank into the history books with his stirring afternoon run to the top . Which Bruce ’ s cameraman was there to record .
Malcolm ’ s day was memorable for several reasons … getting farther up the hill than any other production bike , riding his Husky down the hill when everyone else bulldogged theirs down and , most famously , forgetting to turn the petcock on in his first run , and running out of gas a few hundred feet up the hill . “ I really did forget ,” he told me . “ It wasn ’ t Bruce telling me to create some drama !”
Dirt Tracker Mert
Dirt track racing figures prominently into On Any Sunday , with Bruce following 1969 Grand National Champion Mert Lawwill throughout the 1970 season – and throughout the movie – as Law-
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