ISDE 1983: Bogged Down in Powys

The 1983 Six Days in Wales was supposed to be America’s great chance to finally come home with the World Trophy. The year before in Czechoslovakia, the American team, mudders all, came within a whisker of winning the great prize, and the bogs of Wales in 1983 were set for the final showdown. In the end, bad trouble was our constant companion in Wales, starting with the injury that sidelined one of our top Trophy Team members, and ending with unrelenting bad weather and subsequent machine breakdowns.This is the story of that week.

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