His passing is hard to hear. One of my manly heroes back in the day second only to Kenny Roberts.
I think there was a scene in On Any Sunday where Malcolm went after a pretty boss hill climb slope. His bike just ran out of 💩 about 3/4 of the way up.
Most participants were crashing/bailing off at that point. Malcolm, still seated, merely turned around and calmly rode back to the bottom. No big deal to him.
Vespa, Malcom riding down that “Widow Maker Hill” in Utah was awesome.
Yeah, then he got another try and made it up about 3/4 of the way on a stock Husqvarna. Amazing talent. Good guy. RIP.