Today in motorcycle history, June 11, 1972

  



  

   Aboard a CZ 400 at Snyder Park in Washington, Indiana, Wyman Priddy wins the 5th round of the AMA Motocross National Championship 500cc class over future AMA Hall of Famer Barry Higgins.

  Wyman Priddy started his career racing hillclimbs in 1962, and by 1966 was riding a Triumph 500 collecting trophies throughout Texas running TT-Scrambles. In 1968 Wyman started racing motocross, he was at the forefront of the Texas motocross movement and was the first major Texan to set center stage and make a run on the National and International motocross scene.

  Wyman's 1972 500cc Outdoor National win secured his name among the nations best and coupled with the fact that until Dennis Hawthorne's career and retirement, Priddy probably won more races in Texas than anyone else, placing a big bold stamp on his name as the "Father of Texas Motocross".

  Sadly, on Sept. 14, 1982, he passed away in his sleep at the young age of 36 from arterial sclerosis.  

  

  Wyman Priddy was inducted in the Texas Motocross Hall of Fame in 2012.




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Today in motorcycle history, June 10, 1692

  

        

  June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop is the first of the witches to be hung in Salem, Massachusetts. 

  Over a hundred "witches" were arrested in Salem that year, but only thirty-one were tried.  All thirty-one, including six males, were sentenced to death. Nineteen were hanged, two died in jail, and one man was slowly pressed to death under heavy stones. Contrary to popular belief, none were burned.

  Fast forward to December, 2009... the all female W.I.T.C.H. MC (Motorcycle Coven) is formed in the UK.   

 

  From the club's website...

  W.I.T.C.H (We Intend To Cause Havoc)

  We are an all female group, we love to ride our bikes, party and cause havoc wherever we go.......

  We are UK based and have members across most of the south of England and also now Yorkshire.

  We encourage women to ride and also to maintain and modify their own machines.

   It is a requirement that a witch rides her own bike of over 500cc ....MOTORCYCLES ONLY NO FUCKING TRIKES! of any description no matter how pretty YOU may think it looks!

Although you don't have to ride to party with us!! 

   It is ultimately all about the bikes, riding them, living and breathing bikes......

   Support your local WITCH MC.

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