Gavin Trippe
Motorcycle Racer, Film actor
1940 –
Who is Gavin Trippe?
Gavin Trippe is a motorcycle racing promoter, journalist, and publisher who was inducted to the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2005. Trippe was a motorcycling journalist in the UK until he founded a motorcycling magazine, Motor Cycle Weekly, in the United States in 1969. In the early 1970s he brought European style motocross racing to the US by founding the Carlsbad USGP. Trippe is also the creator of supermoto racing, which attracted a large US television audience from 1979–1985, and had a resurgence, first in Europe and then beyond, since the early 2000s. Since 2007 Trippe has been working to create a new single cylinder racing class with low barriers to entry for amateur racers and young riders.
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- Born
- 1940
England - Also known as
- Super Single
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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