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Sad news, RIP Loic

I'm sure I bought this late 80's ish.Short Derbyshire chassis and GSX1100 engine

Found it now on speedhive

Any link to live timing?

Mick Boddice 1990 had one, up to then mainly thundercats

I seem to remember it was Honda - the only manufacturer supporting the TT at the time - who protested Neil`s fuel injection and not until late in practice week - giving him no time to set it up with carbs and of course, he consequently retired. Guess who won both sidecar events! (they did the same ...

Dave, do you have any thoughts that people over 40 doing the TT for the first time are less likely to return? That's what the 'guideline' was supposed to be about. The Bucket list entries (solos I can see it, having a solo now is either family or rebellion).

I've not seen a full list of proper ...

Aha!!! You spotted my deliberate mistake

So that means Shaky can't ride at Brands BSB this weekend then.

That looks familiar!

Hard to believe this sad news, proud to have known and raced with Ian, my thoughts are with family and friends. RIP

After the 31st of December in the "dates" section there is an apparent abyss, I honestly believe this is an omen from above. (there again it's Saturday night and a few ciders may have some bearing on this)

steve-e wrote:Now, there's a bunch of names ! Even 'Slim' Cooper got in there I rode with Martin Clarke a couple of times, on the Ringhini at Snet and a Honda 4 stroke at Brands I think. Not that year

Steve 93 was Ringhini, 94 onwards was Thundercats

petercaughlin wrote:As an underworked carpenter I could start work on an Ark

Make sure you have some fish on board and make quite a few decks......................then it can be a multi storey carp ark

I believe this is the bike Rob and Boyd crashed at May Hill in 95 practice (it's on the Duke video of that year) Moly fixed it at the cost of his own preparation, Rob won both races on it at around 107mph.
I had it in 2005/06 did the FSRA rounds and the TT, I bought it from Rod Robinson darn sarf ...