Ove Lundell

Lundell was one of the top off-road motorcyclists of his era coming from Sweden, a nation that produced many of the sport's first world champions.

[3] His career began at the age of fifteen, when he performed at Swedish circuses where he rode Wall of Death carnival sideshows on an old Indian motorcycle.

[1] Monark was a large Swedish bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer that was also involved in construction and development.

[1] Lundell won his first and only motocross world championship race on 30 June, 1963 at the 500cc Russian Grand Prix.

From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s he worked in Manaus, Brazil helping develop a Monark moped for that country.