Object of desire

The late Bud Ekins was acknowledged as one of the film industry’s finest stuntmen, with a body of work that included Bullitt and The Great Escape (when, acting as Steve McQueen’s stunt double, he famously jumped the concentration camp’s wire fence on a Triumph.

Verified by Ekins’s brother and restored to a high standard, his International Six Day Trial winning bike, a Husqvarna MX360 Viking, is due to go under the hammer. Bid ...