Dusty Smiles: On the ground at the 2022 Malle Mile
You?ll see anything and everything at the Malle Mile. Vintage dirt bikes, modern classics and customs; new motorcyclists and crusty old bikers; kids and dogs; a superbike with ape hangers and knobbly tires; a drag queen dropping the flag on a drag race in front of a castle.
The Malle Mile is one of the most unique events on the calendar, held at one of the most unlikely venues. It?s a frenetic cacophony of petrol, dust, music and enthusiasm?and we were there to take it all in this year.
The event is organized by the motorcycle luggage and apparel brand, Malle London. This year marked its eighth running, and the second to be held at Grimsthorpe Castle?a centuries-old estate in Lincolnshire 100 miles north of London. Impossibly picturesque, Grimsthorpe’s 6,000 acres of sprawling lawns, rolling hills, forests and interwoven dirt roads provided the perfect backdrop for the shenanigans put on by the Malle crew.
The three-day festival (plus change, if you count Thursday evening’s opening proceedings) was centered around what Malle call ?inappropriate? motorcycle racing. For the whole weekend, all types of bikes, ridden by all types of riders, duked it out over a number of race courses.
The ‘Mile Sprint’ is an eighth-mile sprint up a grass track, while the ‘Hill Climb’ is a head-to-head scramble up a winding course. In the ‘Malle100,’ 100 riders battle it out in groups of 10, on a one mile off-road track with a Le Mans-style ru...
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