The Classic MotorCycle

LOUIE McCLEAN “Everybody’s favourite and a wonderful rider, Mrs Louie McLean is no longer with us.”

When the trials rider who rose to prominence as Louie Ball died in 1932, Motor Cycling noted: “Everybody’s favourite and a wonderful rider, Mrs Louie McLean is no longer with us. It is the sad duty of Cyclops to record her passing.”

And correspondent Cyclops did so, in a column full of praise for a remarkable motorcycling lady. As 15-year-old Louie Ball, she was the subject of a decent sized article in of July 1, 1915, by which time

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