The BikesportNZ.com photo archive is a treasure trove of classic old snaps.

We have decided that each week we are going to run an archive photo or two – a bit of a guessing game for you. See if you can answer the questions about BOTH photos.

We’ll offer you a few clues, but we also want to keep you guessing.

Check back and we’ll give you the answers next week, along with our next “Who’s that?” feature photos.

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Plus, we have a sponsor for the feature. Thanks to Crown Kiwi, EVS and 100% apparel and accessories, we can offer a small prize each week – a tee-shirt or a cap – to the first respondent with the correct answers.

Again, we were absolutely swamped with correct entries this week, although the first to answer correctly was David Hartnell.

We had received a few comments from the “Tar Babies” that they couldn’t answer the questions about the “Dust Bunnies” and vice versa.

This week we swing back towards the dirt bike community.

There should be plenty of correct answers to the easy questions about these two photos.

Next week we’ll feature tarseal characters again.

Clues for photo above:

This photo is a fairly recent shot of a couple of former Kiwi motocross greats.

The man on the left was well known for his exploits on the Kawasaki KX250, especially around Hawke’s Bay, and the other rider was a top national 125cc class rider in New Zealand in the 1980s until he left to live in the United States. He recently returned to settle back in New Zealand.

We do also need you to answer the question about the photo below.

Clues for photo below:

This man was employed as a motorcycle stunt man for a Hollywood movie that was filmed in the South Island of New Zealand back in 1982.

Known for his berm-busting riding style, he achieved top five finishes in the 250cc class in the New Zealand motocross nationals several times throughout the 1980s.

Last week’s characters revealed:

The main photo displayed last week was taken at the Ulster GP in Ireland in 2007.

He is perhaps the greatest road-racer ever to head out onto a race track anywhere in the world, although the then 65-year-old wasn’t riding this day in Ireland. He is, of course, great Italian racing icon Giacomo Agostini.

The other photo was of Kiwi racing legend Gary Goodfellow.

Agostini was nicknamed Ago and he is the all-time leader in victories in motorcycle Grand Prix history, with 122 Grand Prix wins and 15 World Championships titles. Of these, 68 wins and 8 titles came in the 500cc class, the rest in the 350cc class.

Agostini was the son of a wealthy Italian industrialist. His father originally didn’t approve of his son’s motorcycle racing career. He did everything he could to persuade his son not to race. Agostini had to steal away to compete, first in hill climb events and then in road racing.

Eventually his father came to terms with his racing and he won the 1963 Italian 175cc championship aboard a Morini.

He got his break when Morini factory rider, Tarquinio Provini left the team to ride for Benelli. Count Alfonso Morini hired the young Agostini to ride for him. In 1964, Agostini would win the Italian 350cc title and proved his ability by finishing fourth in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

These results caught the eye of Count Domenico Agusta who signed Agostini to ride for his MV Agusta squad as Mike Hailwood’s team-mate. Agostini then fought a season-long battle with Honda’s Jim Redman for the 1965 350cc world championship. He seemed to have the title won when he led the final round in Japan at Suzuka when his bike failed him, handing the title to Redman.

At the end of the 1965 season, Hailwood left to join Honda as he had tired of working for the difficult Count Agusta. With Agostini now the top MV Agusta rider, he responded by winning the 500cc title seven years in succession for the Italian factory. He would also win the 350cc title seven times in succession and won 10 Isle of Man TTs. In 1967 he battled Hailwood in one of the most dramatic seasons in Grand Prix history. Each rider had five victories before the championship was decided in Agostini’s favour at the last race of the season.

Agostini dropped a bombshell on the Grand Prix world when he announced he would never again race at the Isle of Man TT, after the death of his close friend, Gilberto Parlotti during the 1972 TT. He considered the 37 mile circuit unsafe for world championship competition. At the time, the TT was the most prestigious race on the motorcycling calendar. Other top riders joined his boycott of the event and by 1977, the event was struck from the Grand Prix schedule.

Agostini surprised the racing world when he announced that he would leave MV Agusta to ride for Yamaha in 1974 season. On his first outing for the Japanese factory, he won the prestigious Daytona 200, the premiere American motorcycle race. He went on to claim the 1974 350cc World Championship but injuries and mechanical problems kept him from winning the 500cc crown. He rebounded and won the 1975 500cc title, marking the first time a two-stroke machine won the premier class.

The 1975 championship would also be the last world title for the 33 year old Italian. In 1976, he rode both Yamaha and MV bikes in the 500cc class, yet raced only once in the 350cc to win in Assen. For the challenging Nürburgring, he chose the 500cc MV Agusta and took it to victory, winning the last Grand Prix for both himself, the marque and the last for four-stroke engines in the 500cc class.

He retired from motorcycle competition after finishing 6th in the 1977 season in which he also raced in 750cc endurance races for Yamaha.

Like John Surtees and Mike Hailwood before him, Agostini raced in Formula One cars. He competed in non-championship Formula One races in 1978. He competed in the European Formula 2 series in a Chevron B42-BMW and British Aurora Formula 1 with his own team and a Williams FW06. He ended his auto racing career in 1980.

In 1982, Ago returned to the motorcycle racing as the Marlboro Yamaha team manager. As team manager he managed many successful riders including Kenny Roberts, and Eddie Lawson. He also served as the Cagiva race team manager in 1992.

The other character featured last week, Gary Goodfellow, was New Zealand 250cc motocross champion in 1979 and first equal (with Craig Coleman) in the same class the following season.

He was a professional motorcycle racer for 20 years, having been ranked No.5 and No.8 in the world for both motocross and superbike racing respectively.

A very accomplished rider, Goodfellow was the first New Zealander to win a World Super Bike race and was the first person to win a World Super Bike race for Suzuki.

This photo was taken when he raced at the World Superbike Championships back in the 1980s.

Riding a Don Knit Sugano Yoshimura Suzuki bike, the former motocross champion won the Japanese round of the WSBK in the competition’s inaugural season in 1988.

Goodfellow’s racing career included winning over 11 championships held in Canada and representing North America in the Trans-Atlantic Championships held in England. He was also a test pilot for the John Britton development team in New Zealand for three years.

Email your answers to this week’s quiz to contest@bikesportnz.com

Note: Be careful to answer the questions being asked. We may ask for a time, a place, an event or ask for one or several of the individuals in the two photos to be identified.

© Photos by Andy McGechan, www.BikesportNZ.com