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EWAN BUCHAN
I am 41 years old with partner Lynne and have three children Jack 17, Blair
8 and Robbie 4. I am a director of several companies, Scotland’s biggest towbar fitting centre, a 4x4 hire company and a coachworks. I started riding motorcycles in 1982 competing in schoolboy motocross and like my brother finished up in the Scottish adult championship class. More recently I successfully turned my hand to road racing in the 600cc class, narrowly missing out on being the first rider to lap at 100mph on the Scottish East Fortune track, but my love of off-road racing has prevailed once again, and my ambition of using my riding skills on the “Dakar “ is going to happen.
Following Footsteps!
Ewan Buchan’s motorcycling pedigree
could not be better. He is determined to follow in the
wheel tracks of his great grandfather Jack Buchan who won
top awards in the Manx Grand prix, Scottish six days trial
and the international six days trial.
In January 1972 when he was 62 he set
off from Cape Horn planning to ride all the way to Alaska.
Unfortunately with the worst of the trip behind him he
took ill in Mexico and had to be flown home.
Ewan says “the thought that I would
be riding over the same terrain inspired me to tackle the
Dakar. Infact with the 2008 rally being switched from
Africa to South America was a perfect reason to have a go
myself”.
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