Above : Part of the Rod Coleman collection in 1997 . Below : Rod Coleman AJS 1975
carried much more weight than winning any of the European Grand Prix . To the New Zealand public , it was like the All Blacks winning the World Cup , or a New Zealand horse winning the Grand National . It was , however , close to the end of an era . The British AJS that Rod rode and the Nortons that were so successful in the immediate post-war years were about to be challenged , first by Italian MV Agustas , and Moto Guzzis , followed by a wave of Japanese
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