‘The Fish’ torqs!

In this episode of the Torq Moto Podcast Show, driven by Talon we have former multiple British motocross champion and former GP front runner Rob ‘The Fish’ Herring join us ‘Jeffro’ Perrett and DocWob on the studio couches to reflect back on his illustrious motocross career.

It’s another wonderful trip down MX memory lane as Herring goes back to his early days racing motocross in the U.K. where he made a huge impact, not only for his raw speed and amazing ‘American style’, even though he grew up in South Africa, but also for his eyecatching ‘Blue Stratos’ race kit! A talking point and reference that people still remember him by to this day.

No doubt about it, he was a breath of fresh air when he burst onto the British Motocross scene. Herring was ridiculously fast with effortless style and influenced many of the next generation of riders who studied his riding.

Herring explains how he moved to South Africa at the age of seven and how his journey in the sport started and how riding and racing in South Africa honed his skills and ability to do things on British tracks that others simply wouldn’t see or couldn’t do.

Quiet and unassuming Herring certainly let his riding do his talking at the races but now many years down the line, he talks with great affection on his career with vivid detail, from his opening moto win at the first ever British GP at Foxhill in 1992, through to playing his often overlooked part on the winning British MXDN team that put an end to the 13year win streak for Team USA at Roggenburg, Switzerland 30 years ago.

In fact, we had so much to talk about that this episode is the first of a twoparter with ‘the Fish’.

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Photo Credit Sharon Penhallurick