Glyn Taylor

Glyn Clifford Taylor (born 24 August 1953) is an Australian former motorcycle speedway rider, who went on to a career building and curating speedway tracks, tuning engines, and in speedway promotion and team management.

Biography Glyn Taylor was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1953. His father Chum Taylor was an Australian speedway rider who was riding for Cardiff Dragons at the time. After several years away from British speedway he returned in 1977 with Reading Racers, and then another long break followed until he rode for Reading again and Edinburgh Monarchs in 1983.

Taylor rode in the Australian Individual Speedway Championship several times, finishing as runner-up to Billy Sanders in 1983 and finishing third in 1982, 1987, and 1991. He won the Western Australian Individual Speedway Championship in 1982 and 1983.

After retiring from racing, Taylor started his GT Tuning business, and since the early 1990s has designed and built several speedway tracks, including many indoor tracks and the tracks at Redcar, Hull (Craven Park), and the Oaktree Arena at Somerset. He also had a spell as team owner and promoter for Redcar Bears.