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My name is Bryan Clark "Grumpy" I have been involved with
motorcycles and photography pretty much all my life. The nickname Grumpy
came when
I worked in construction. I guess I took my job a little to serious and
always had a chip on my shoulder. I didn't put up with any guff from
the
other trades. One day some guys from the other trades played a little
joke and wrote "Grumpy" on my hard-hat when I was taking a nap
during lunch, it stuck ever since. It just seeemed to fit.
I
have been riding motorcycles since I was 8 years old. Riding the mini
bike around the yard and then eventually being able to cruise around camp
in the desert with the whole family. Eventually I started racing DRA (Desert
Racing assoc.)events, enduros and the District 37 desert races. My real
beginning was in the early 1970s riding in the old Hook &
Ladder Enduro on a DKW 125.
While going to the races through the 70s I always had a camera
with me a Brownie 110 mm which I used to shoot all kinds of photos. Being
to young to go on the big rides I spent my time shooting photos around
camp and of my friends and I doing jumps we would find near camp. One
day my father gave me his old Yashica 35 mm camera which I used until
it was wore out.
In
the mid 1980s an unforeseen turnof events stopped my so called-racing
career and I took up photography full time. With selling the photos to
the racers and also getting published from time to time it worked into
Photos by Grumpy the full-time business it is now.
I love taking photos of you, the off road racers so you can have some
sort of remembrance of your races. It's the coolest thing to watch all
the racers riding out in the middle of nowhere. The coolest part about
it is that I get to capture that for you on film so you might be able
to share it with your family and friends.
Look for my banner on the course and be prepared for your photo opp...
Thanks for your interest & support see you at the races.....
Grumpy
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