ALEC BENNETT “The rider with a brain likeacalculating machine.”
Writing in 1931, in an article in The Motor Cycle, future Motor Cycling editor and no mean racer himself Graham Walker described Alec Bennett as; “The rider with a brain like a calculating machine.” Though he was only to race in 29 events, Bennett’s success ratio was remarkable, for he won 13 of them.
Bennett, a slight figure who weighed less than 10 stone, had a simple ethos which he described thus in 1927: “I cannot afford to
