Pete Kellond

Pete Kellond was inducted as a Greater Vancouver Motorsport Pioneer recently by the GVMPSociety. His accomplishments as a road racing motorcyclist helped the sport grow and flourish and continue to this day. Here's a couple clippings from the 1960s when Pete leaned into the turns at places like Westwood and even Daytona.

A book featuring Pete, along with 12 other new GVMPS Pioneers and smaller bios of over 100 more, can be found at various locations in the Greater (uh, Metro) Vancouver area including Trev Deeley Motorcycles.

I believe this is my 250th post. Posts, much like time, marches on. Which means I've already mentioned Pete once before on this blog. Repeating myself already but not with scrapbook content. Guys like Pete are worth mentioning more than once.

March times on

Okay, it's March. And time is marching on. It seems to be the "slow" month in the motorsport world of B.C.

Been putting stuff I've found into some sort of scrapbook order.

Noticed a 1970 item from March. The Daytona 100 motorcycle race at the big speedway. Local racer Pete Kellond attended and finished well.

Trevor Deeley also headed south to race there back in 1948 (hope that's right) on the beach.

I'm sure many more B.C. racers have been part of the race. An article from February, 1970 said Tim Lloyd of Surrey was also heading to Daytona to race.