
LOT 241
Hagon-JAP 500cc Grass-Track Racing Motorcycle
Sold for £1,897.50 inc. premium
Lot 241
Hagon-JAP 500cc Grass-Track Racing Motorcycle
Hagon-JAP 500cc Grass-Track Racing Motorcycle
Perhaps best remembered now as one of the UK's most successful-ever drag racers, Alf Hagon only turned to 'straight line' motorcycle sport after a lengthy career in the top flight of international speedway and grass-track racing. Born in Ilford in 1931, the teenage Hagon first took up motorcycle racing after the war when he entered a Rudge in a local grass-track event. He would go on to become British Grass-track Champion on no fewer than 11 occasions. With help from sponsor Tom Kirby, Alf began developing his own speedway and grass-track frames, the first of which were built in his mother's garden shed, before setting up Hagon Products in 1957 in Leyton, East London for their manufacture. The frame-building venture was so successful that he retired from speedway and grass-track competition in 1965 to concentrate on the business, which nevertheless still allowed him sufficient time off to go drag racing. Hagon Products also specialised in wheel building, and when Girling were taken over by Boge in the 1970s, he acquired the rights to their suspension dampers (but not the name), selling them under the Hagon brand. Exported worldwide and fitted with a wide variety of engines, Hagon bikes have won countless championships over the years. This restored Hagon grass-tracker is fitted with JAP's four-stud speedway engine, which drives via a Bewley two-speed gearbox. There are no documents with this Lot.
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Saleroom notices
The machine appears to be unrestored. The engine number is: 84572865





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