Brian Stonebridge

Brian Stonebridge was a leading English motorcycle racer of the 1950s who competed in scrambles, now known as motocross, born on 6 June 1928 in Cambridgeshire. He began riding for the Matchless scrambles team in 1950, winning a gold medal in that year's International Six Days Trial, and in 1952 and 1954 he was a member of the British teams that won the Motocross des Nations. In 1954 he joined the BSA factory team and helped develop the two-stroke BSA Bantam scrambler, then moved to the Greeves racing team in 1957, becoming the company's Competitions Manager and Development Engineer. He competed in the 1959 250cc European Motocross Championship and finished second behind Rolf Tibblin. He died in October 1959 after a road traffic accident.