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Dirt-biking is gravity-defying, logic-confounding, three-dimensional motion, says writer Frank Jones

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Dirt-biking is gravity-defying, logic-confounding, three-dimensional motion, says writer Frank Jones

Date5/30/1977

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Combs, Erin (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Dirt-biking is gravity-defying; logic-confounding; three-dimensional motion; says writer Frank Jones. And Bob Levy; 19; last year's winner of the Canadian Motocross (dirt-bike racing) Grand Prix; shows the well balanced reason why.

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English

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Object NumberTSPA_0096415F

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