It didn’t happen very often, but in the ‘80s Cycle News would call me on occasion to shoot and report on bigger motocross, off-road or hillclimb events around Indiana. Sometime in the mid-1980s I reported on an AMA National Hare Scramble event in Southern Indiana. Tom Buckles was one of the big off-road stars in the area and according to the caption on this photo he won the event that weekend at Stoney Lonesome Motorcycle Club, near Columbus, Indiana. Buckles rode for the American team in the ISDE several times in the early-to-mid 1980s.

Tom Buckles leads a group of riders up a rocky creek bed in an AMA National Hare Scrambles race near Columbus, Indiana, in the mid-1980s. (Larry Lawrence photo)