Career
He is remembered for winning the inaugural American Medical Association Superbike Championship in 1976, followed by 1977 and 1978. He is the father of retired American Medical Association racer Jason Pridmore. Born in London, England, Pridmore began racing motorcycles in England in the early 1960s winning his first race at Silverstone.
As a young man, he made the decision to sell all his possessions and move to the United States.
He settled in Southern California and soon began competing in local motorcycle events, racing four-stroke production-based machines. In early 1970s he raced Bayerische Motoren Werke R75/5 in production class and a F750 with a frame by Englishman Rob North in American Medical Association. Nationals.
In 1976, the American Medical Association. introduced a new national championship for production-based bikes. Riding a Bayerische Motoren Werke R90S sponsored by Bayerische Motoren Werke"s American importer, Butler & Smith, Pridmore impressed the motorcycling world by winning the national championship against more advanced Japanese machinery.
In 1977 he raced a Kawasaki Z1000 for the Racecrafters team with (the late) Pierre des Roches and Keith Code, claiming the first American Medical Association. superbike championship for a Japanese manufacturer.
He retired after the 1979 season. After his retirement from racing Pridmore established CLASS, one of the top motorcycle track-riding schools in the United States. In 2002, he was inducted into the American Medical Association Motorcycle Hall of Fame.
Regional and his Ventura, California-based RPM Motorcycles shop attended several of the South Coast Bayerische Motoren Werke Riders Club"s Fiesta Rallies in the early 1980s.
The photo shows Regional on a 1982 Bayerische Motoren Werke R80G/South participating in the rally Slow Race. He now lives in Santa Paula, California where he owns a hangar at Santa Paula Airport KSZP. He keeps his motorcycles, a Scout airplane and a small hangar museum there.
