Vale Past Motocross Riders

Vale past Australian motocross riders

This section pays tribute to past Australian Motocross Champions who have lost their lives, most through natural causes, but sadly others on the track who died doing what they loved most.

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Click above to add any further riders, contribute stories, results, content or report any errors or broken links to the Australian Motocross History website, or email:
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Victorian Grand Champion winners pictured in 1964 – Ken Rumble (1954,56,60), Ray Fisher (1957,65), John Burrows (1953), George Bailey (1958) & Ian Gaff

RIP rider index and feature stories

Motocross racing incidents

1979
REILLY, DANNY

South Australia
(RIP) 10.2.1959 to 9.7.1979

1977 ANZ Test in Hamilton, NZ
1977 Australian Motocross Championships Acusa Park, SA

1982
mClachlan, stuart

Queensland
(RIP) to 1.3.1960 to 28.2.1982

Tribute to Struart McLachlan
History of Mister Motocross Series
1980 Mr MX Series

1994
elliott, joel

New South Wales
(RIP) 4.3.1976 to 8.7.1994

Australian 125cc Motocross Champions
Australian Supercross Masters Series

2004
porter, jono

Queensland
(RIP) 12.5.1981 to 9.6.2004

AMX History Tribute to Jono
Tribute to Jono Porter

2010
McFarlane, Andrew

Queensland
(RIP) 30.5.1977 to 2.5.2010

Australian Motocross Legend
Tribute to Andrew McFarlane “Sharky”
Andrew “Sharky” McFarlane: RIP 10 Years On – Transmoto

2017
melton, peter

Queensland
(RIP) 4.12.1966 to 1.11.2017

Australian Motocross Legend – Peter Melton
Transmoto – Tribute to Peter Melton

2023
Erbacher, Brayden

Queensland
(RIP) 2.10.2002 to 5.3.2023

Queenslander Brayden Erbacher dies at 2023 ProMX opening round (Full Noise)
Rider death sees 2023 ProMX season opener cancelled
Motorcycling Australia – Official Statement on Brayden Erbacher

2025
EVANS, JOEL

Queensland
(RIP)10.11.1994 to 27.4.2025

Joel Evans – Queensland – 1994 to 2025
Joel Evans passes away at Gillman (SA)
Motorcycling Australia Statement – Joel Evans

Other

ALERS, ANTON

Victoria
(RIP) 19.6.1958 to 17.5.2023

Andrew Aler’s Victorian Motocross Champion

BAILEY, GEORGE

Victoria
(RIP) 24.8.1929 to 3.1.2007

George Bailey Motocross Story on video
Australian Motocross Legend
George George and Andrew Bailey – Part 1
George George and Andrew Bailey – Part 2

britza, glen

Western Australia
(RIP) 11.9.1938 to 27.6.2020

Motorcycling WA Hall of Fame
1962 Australian Motocross Championships – The Ropeworks (WA)

broomfieLd, paul

Western Australia
(RIP) 2.12.1975 to 13.4.2011

Tribute to Paul Broomfield
Transmoto – Paul Broomfield

bURROWS, JOHN

Victoria
(RIP) 1933 to 30.9.2021

AMX Legend – John Burrows
West and Burrows tie for Australia’s greatest Unlimited Rider

COOK, COLIN

Western Australia
(RIP) 12.1.1947 to 9.8.2022

Colin Cook – Three-times WA Sidecarcross Champion
Colin Cook Tribute Video

DALEY, MATT

Queensland / New South Wales
(RIP) 1945 to 8.11.2021

AMX Legend – Matt Daley

Dinsdale, Steven

Queensland
(RIP) 6.2.1965 to 23.2.2011

Queensland State Champion
Dailey Mercury article

Fisher, Ray

Victoria
(RIP) 1.1.1936 to 1.3.2021

Australian Motocross Legend
Speed Cafe – Hall of Fame inductee – Ray Fisher

Flood, trevor

Victoria
(RIP) 4.2.1953 to 17.4.2021

Australian Motocross Legends
Australian Motocross Legend – Trevor Flood

GOBERT, ANTHONY

Queensland
(RIP) 5.3.1975 to 17.1.2024

Anthony Gobert SX Hero
Australian Junior Motocross Champions

GIBBES, TIM

Born New South Wales
(RIP) 12.10.1933 to 15.10. 2023

Australian Motocross Legends
Australian Motocross Legend – Tim Gibbes
Tim Gibbes success at the 1960 Czechoslovakian and Polish 250cc Grand Prix events
Australian New Zealand International Motocross Series 1960s

GUNTER, ANTHONY

Born New South Wales
(RIP) 14.1.1957 TO 6.12.2024

Australian Motocross Legend
Gunter’s first Mr MX in 1976
Gunter wins back-to-back Mr MX titles in 1977
Gunter wins third Mr MX on a Works Suzuki
Gunters best ride in 1977

hoAd, mitch

New South Wales (RIP) 2016

Kings, Richard 'Ritchie'

Western Australia
(RIP) 1990

WA all-time motocross legend
Kings inducted into Motorcycling WA Hall of Fame

LEISK, MARK

Western Australia
(RIP) 30.9.1962 to 10.12.2025

WA Motocross Champion Mark Leisk

mCdermott, bill

Western Australia
(RIP)

1968 Australian Motocross Championships Collie (WA)

mCdONNELL, JACK

Western Australia
(RIP) 10.1.1934 to 22.12.2025

1977 WA Sidecarcross Champion Jack McDonnell, with Campbell Leitch

mOATES, MARTY

USA
(RIP) 10.12.1956 to 7.12.2006

RacerX Online Tribute to Marty Moates
Los Angeles Tims – Moates big landmark win in 1980
Moates in the King of the Cross

NICOL, PETER

Western Australia
(RIP) 25.02.1931 to 29.03.2025

Australian Motocross Legend Peter Nicol
Harley Scramble – Breeding ground for Australian Champions
1955 Australian Motocross Championships, Rope Works WA
1956 Australian Motocross Championships, Moorebank, NSW
1957 Australian Mortocross Championships, Amberley, Queensland

rock, john

Western Australia
(RIP) 1931 to 2012

Tribute to John Rock

rUMBLE, KEN

Victoria
(RIP) 12.9.1986

AMX Legend – Ken Rumble
Inaugural 1953 Australian Champion
Speed Cafe – Australian Motorsport Hall of Fame

smith, MARTY

USA
(RIP) 6.11.1956 to 27.4.2000

Tribute to Marty Smith, who raced down under in 1980
Remembering Marty & Nancy Smith (Pipeline Digital Media)
Motocross Action Magazine – Tribute to Marty Smith

smith, stan

Western Australia
(RIP) 21.11.1936 to 12.12.2012

tyers, ron

Western Australia
(RIP) 29.1.2021

woodward, robert

Western Australia
(RIP) 1960 to 2017