TORQ MOTO - Roger Harvey - The lone traveller of MXGP, when men were men!

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Torq Moto

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Ай бұрын

The Torq Moto Podcast Show driven by Talon has another cracker for this week’s episode brought to you by Docbright.
Hosts ‘DocWobs' and ‘Jeffro’ Perrett are joined by one of the industry's biggest players, Honda HRC’s senior team adviser, Roger Harvey. Roger has played an integral part in bringing the glory days back to HRC; the trio discusses Roger’s career as a British and World Motocross championship racer and how his journey in the motocross world began.
As always with ‘Rog’, there are some brilliant stories, industry insight and plenty of laughs. As with many riders of his generation, there are golden stories of hustling to work up the ladder in British and World motocross and classic road trip stories in a time when it was harder but in many ways easier to tour the continent. In this episode, Roger talks about how he worked his way up to become a British MX 125cc champion and a front runner in the 125cc World Championship and how life was on the road getting to GP’s and continental international meetings, even on his own with no mechanic! He also looks back fondly on some of his long-standing friendships with the likes of David Thorpe, Bob Wright and Alec Wright, to name but a few. More bizarrely, there’s even a discussion on the significance of the decor of Roger’s toilet!
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@markhudson5449
@markhudson5449 25 күн бұрын
Brilliant episode with Rog. Could listen to him all day. Top bloke.
@TorqMoto
@TorqMoto 24 күн бұрын
Mega!!!
@ianbarber6463
@ianbarber6463 Ай бұрын
If my memory serves me well my dad Ray Barber (Lead Mechanic of Brian Leask Husky Team) built a really trick 125 Husky for him circa 75/76 that had the carb inlet in to the crank! Air leak made it over run (My brother had it for a while).....Great days...Roger talks so well and really engaging....Top Bloke....And Huskvarna is town where Husqvarna were made. Went to the museum last year, there was a Mikkola 360 my dad built the gearbox in.
@paulwilliams8588
@paulwilliams8588 Ай бұрын
Didn't he ride the 125GPs on a Husqvarna?
@TorqMoto
@TorqMoto Ай бұрын
Very cool!
@zoomerzoomer-jn7rf
@zoomerzoomer-jn7rf Ай бұрын
Love Roger too, like Mansel needs the tache!I remember you at hssc club in the experts with the yamoto van, Roger and dave Watson did a yamaha reveal in Crawley in a hall , 82 or 83?
@ianbarber6463
@ianbarber6463 Ай бұрын
@@zoomerzoomer-jn7rf Indeedy we had a Merc van supported by Yamoto which was the Yamaha side of Brian Leask Husqvarna business. Happy days back then.☺
@markcortis2348
@markcortis2348 Ай бұрын
Give harv a few beers, sit back and listen to his tales all night, would be an awesome evening,,, 👍
@TorqMoto
@TorqMoto Ай бұрын
Deal!
@julianhammonds2330
@julianhammonds2330 Ай бұрын
Roger is a star. I went to one of the first MX schools he did with Tim Matthews in '85, I crashed on the final day and Roger got my squashed pipe fixed. Saw him later that year at the Cradley Heath Speedway 'Supercross' meeting when he was still on crutches for his hips.
@TorqMoto
@TorqMoto Ай бұрын
He is a great man!! No doubt!!
@sevenseven2mx295
@sevenseven2mx295 Ай бұрын
Great man and a great listen
@TorqMoto
@TorqMoto Ай бұрын
He is a legend d
@piersdowell832
@piersdowell832 Ай бұрын
Had to laugh at the comment about the Double jumps at Worcester MX school. Roger taught me to do double jumps there in '86. I didn't realise he'd only just taught himself!
@garymorgan489
@garymorgan489 Ай бұрын
Roger is such a top guy
@TorqMoto
@TorqMoto Ай бұрын
Correct
@TimGuitarcouk
@TimGuitarcouk Ай бұрын
Interesting when Rog mentioned that his mum sponsored him when he was a young rider. When I rode schoolboy scrambles in the late 70s we were a single parent family on a low income but my mum paid for my fuel, my entries and marshalled for me week after week. Without mums, where would we be, eh?
@TorqMoto
@TorqMoto Ай бұрын
Truly mega reminder for folk!!
@TimGuitarcouk
@TimGuitarcouk Ай бұрын
@@TorqMoto thanks for a great podcast.
@davew9360
@davew9360 Ай бұрын
Would love to see the old Trials and Motocross wallpaper .
@TorqMoto
@TorqMoto Ай бұрын
We will have to get a photo!!
@davew9360
@davew9360 Ай бұрын
@@TorqMoto Definately ,also Rogers comment about golf courses was spot on , I have always said they are a waiste of a good MX track !!
@user-uk5zm7tx2z
@user-uk5zm7tx2z Ай бұрын
Great stuff as always so nice to look back at the good old days in what was the best era of scrambles and motocross it would be nice if more people listened to your podcast there missing a good old watch
@MrKips1
@MrKips1 Ай бұрын
Great!
@TorqMoto
@TorqMoto Ай бұрын
Thank you!!!
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