January 19 - 22, 2012
TRADEX EXHIBITION CENTRE • ABBOTSFORD
CANADA’S PREMIER MOTORCYCLE SHOW
Featuring: Peter Starr
Peter is a producer, director and writer who has been honoured with 14 major international awards for film making, including the Chicago and Houston international film festivals and five Telly Awards for commercial and documentary productions and the Best of Show Award at the Aurora Awards. He has produced and directed over 40 television specials on motorcycling and motorsports, 15 videos and two documentary feature films and more than two dozen television commercials and industrial films. His work has been seen on USA Network, TNN, ESPN, Turner Broadcasting, the BBC, Channel Five UK, ABC Sports, the History Channel amongst others.
Peter has also produced and hosted national radio programs with major entertainment celebrities including Paul McCartney, Tommy Smothers, Peter Fonda, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Grace Slick. He won the Silver and Gold Awards at the International Radio Programming Awards in New York in 1993 and 1995. He has also produced records for M.G.M., United Artists, A & M, Epic and Polydor including albums with Spencer Davis, Tim Weisberg, the Canadian Rock Theater and Sequoia.
As a writer Peter contributes feature articles to several nationally distributed auto and motorcycle special interest magazines and has recently published his new book, “Taking It To The Limit, all about the making of the iconic movie.
Peter has also produced and hosted national radio programs with major entertainment celebrities including Paul McCartney, Tommy Smothers, Peter Fonda, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Grace Slick. He won the Silver and Gold Awards at the International Radio Programming Awards in New York in 1993 and 1995. He has also produced records for M.G.M., United Artists, A & M, Epic and Polydor including albums with Spencer Davis, Tim Weisberg, the Canadian Rock Theater and Sequoia.
As a writer Peter contributes feature articles to several nationally distributed auto and motorcycle special interest magazines and has recently published his new book, “Taking It To The Limit, all about the making of the iconic movie.
Interview with Peter Starr
Featuring: Steve Baker
Born in Bellingham, Washington, on September 5, 1952 Steve Baker began riding motorcycles at age 11. By the late 1960s, while he was still in high school, he was racing the local dirt tracks. Because the American Motorcycle Association did not allow a kid that young to get a racing license Steve Baker got his early racing done north of the border, in Canada. He was a quick learner and a quick rider winning on tracks at Cloverdale, New Westminster and Callister Park in Vancouver. By 1970 he was points champion in the 125 and 250 c.c. classes in the Vancouver area.
Steve says his first bike was a Yamaha and the brand stayed with him for most of his racing career. He rode Yamahas on the dirt tracks and when he was 18 years old he raced for Trev Deeley, then the Yamaha distributor for Canada. His road racing experiences got him three Canadian titles from 1974 through to 1976. In 1975, at Westwood, Steve Baker won the Unlimited, 250 and 500 c.c. races and set a lap record for motorcycles at 1:10.4. 1977 saw Steve Baker win the rain-shortened Daytona 200. In Europe he raced 750 and 500 c.c. Yamahas becoming World Champion in the 750 series and second in the 500 grand prix series.
As a privateer in 1978 Steve Baker’s motorcycle career came to an end on a Suzuki at Mosport. A bad crash and more broken bones decided that for him. He bought a motorcycle dealership in his hometown of Bellingham and was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999. These days he is involved in “classic motorcycle parading” back over in England and Europe on his favourite bike: Yamaha. As he says, “Yamaha is part of me”.
Steve says his first bike was a Yamaha and the brand stayed with him for most of his racing career. He rode Yamahas on the dirt tracks and when he was 18 years old he raced for Trev Deeley, then the Yamaha distributor for Canada. His road racing experiences got him three Canadian titles from 1974 through to 1976. In 1975, at Westwood, Steve Baker won the Unlimited, 250 and 500 c.c. races and set a lap record for motorcycles at 1:10.4. 1977 saw Steve Baker win the rain-shortened Daytona 200. In Europe he raced 750 and 500 c.c. Yamahas becoming World Champion in the 750 series and second in the 500 grand prix series.
As a privateer in 1978 Steve Baker’s motorcycle career came to an end on a Suzuki at Mosport. A bad crash and more broken bones decided that for him. He bought a motorcycle dealership in his hometown of Bellingham and was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999. These days he is involved in “classic motorcycle parading” back over in England and Europe on his favourite bike: Yamaha. As he says, “Yamaha is part of me”.
