Cheerio Colin and thank you from all the lads you helped.
I did the TT on the Thundercat outfit you built for Howard
and raced one of your long tubular bikes many times.
YOU WERE INDEED A MAESTRO..... GONE BUT NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN
HI .......SILVERSTONE ARE HOLDING A MEGGA WEEK-END FOR ALL TYPES OF RACING CARS AND MOTORCYCLES ON 29th-31st JULY IT IS A HUGE EVENT AND I HAVE BEEN ASKED TO HELP PROVIDE 15- SIDECARS. THERE WILL ALSO BE 10-15 SIDECARS FROM THE CONTINENT. ANY 'SPECIAL' MACHINES AND CREWS FROM THE END OF THE WAR UP ...
George arrived at Rouen for the first non championship International meeting in April, with his Renwick like outfit. He had a monumental 'off' on the downhill section and ran for two or three hundred yards rubbing the right side of the fairing against the Armco. This practice excursion was the start ...
Hi Folks Good news and not so good I’m afraid. Unfortunately the Organisers at Hockenheim tell us they have tried, but just don’t have the room in their programme for another Classic Sidecar race.
The good news however, is that all the Entry forms for the first three meetings at Croix, Hengelo and ...
Do you ever get to bed John ?.......I have so much to thank you for.....you looked after my two Busch outfits for many years and later my two MRE's and various solos. At the same time you have built several of your own outfits and mended many many more.
Well what a great season of racing we have had in 2015, with over 45 Teams from more than 8 Countries, and full grids at every meeting.
I’m pleased to tell you that your Camathias Cup Team have been working on our 2016 calendar and our ‘proposed’ dates can be found now on our website ...
Hi Folks If any of you Camathias Cup Teams have not yet entered our final meeting of the season at Cadwell 25th – 27th September, we still have a few places left and entries close on Saturday 5th so get busy folks.
It promises to be a great weekend, run by VMCC/BHR there is a practices day on ...
Fred Brindley....what a character. I remember in 1967 coming out of Governors Bridge in practice whilst passengering for Roy Pike. Fred and Dave Saville his passenger were both rolling about on the pavement. They were not hurt at all...just laughing their heads off. When he scrutineered one year ...
Thank you John and others for much information during your phone calls What a motorcycling family. Teds brother lewis was a famous Continental Circus solo racer for several years riding a Tom Kirby machine. Alan Young, another brother was a great engineer and built and raced a 500cc outfit powered ...
I RECENTLY MET A NICE LADY "LINDA" WHOS UNCLE WAS THE SIDECAR DRIVER/CONSTRUCTOR "TED YOUNG" STAR OF THE 50/60s WHEN I STARTED RACING IT WAS ON ONE OF HIS OLD TRIUMPH OUTFITS. JIM MANN AND I USED TO GREASE THE INSIDE OF THE TELE FORKS BEFORE EACH RACE TO STOP THE FRONT TYRE 'HOWLING' AS IT RUBBED ON ...
NICE COMMENTS FROM BRUCE MOORE.........BRUCE YOUR A GREAT GUY.....I REMEMBER YOU WINNING THE PEEL KART RACE HERE ON THE I.O.MAN IN YOUR YOUTH, ASSISTED BY YOUR FATHER .THEN YOU BECAME A SUPER SIDECAR PILOT [passing me round the outside at Ballaspur]THEN A GOOD PASSENGER. THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU RACE ...