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Hate to disagree Gordon but strokers are only good for smoking bacon, kippers etc

Bob B wrote:Hate to disagree Gordon but strokers are only good for smoking bacon, kippers etc

im not happy with anti twostroke comment,
we all have fourstrokes,and use them for their proper purpose, generating electricity!

kxt5001987 wrote:

Bob B wrote:Hate to disagree Gordon but strokers are only good for smoking bacon, kippers etc

im not happy with anti twostroke comment,
we all have fourstrokes,and use them for their proper purpose, generating electricity!

Oh - come on - they do have other uses...
Lawn mowers
Sludge pumps
Shopping
Commuting etc, etc.....
Ok - that's enough -

ynys-mon wrote:Performance bikes did an article on the hopper and rode it at the plum pudding meeting about 86 / 87. Hope this helps

hi, ive been looking through all the internet second hand back issue websites, cant seem to find the right one, can anyone help with adate or issue number?

Sammy is on here, possibly under Scotia.

pnprod wrote:Sammy is on here, possibly under Scotia.

This is his profile - memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4188

Last visited just before New Year, so still has a look from time to time.

download/file.php?id=2722&mode=view
I believe this is a Hopper Armstrong; taken from another thread on here from a while back.

thats a great picture, whats the chance of any others?
thankyou for the help, ill try and get in touch with sammy and see if he has any pictures.
dan

I think that was one Sammy originally posted a couple of years back. He may well have some others too, so maybe worth trying a p.m. perhaps ?

Did John Hartell have an Armstrong-powered Hopper?
I know he had one Hopper that he "cut into very small pieces to prevent it falling into anybody else's hands". If I remember correctly this was the second one he had owned.

Yes John did have a hopper remember him at the TT on it think he had a top 5 finish on it(350 class) but know he wasn't very keen on it ?

i seem to recall they got a fourth on it too
but i think it was a bit earlier than that maybe 85

lang wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:37 am Gordon the Scottish guy you mention was Sammy Sampson, who if I remember rightly threw his Hopper chassis in the paddock skip at the TT !

The chassis was not a Hopper it was a shed I bought from Stuart Applegate without seeing it,I took it on his word that "it was a good un!" some people have starange ideas what is good!

oldbelly wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:05 pm It wasnt a Hopper they threw in the skip. It was a shed of a chassis with a fourstroke in. It fell apart coming into the Nook (nice slow place to crash). They took off what they wanted , put the chassis in the skip and went on a pub crawl around the cicuit with the van. They did a pub each day and slept in the van for the rest of the TT.

Aye thats correct Geoff, it was Mullens idea honest. It took us three days to get to Ginger Hall.
I remember waking up in the morning we just looked at each other headed back to the pits packed up and headed home, it still took us two days or so to get back as Mullen still had a thirst.
It was Jim Campbell our passenger at the time who cut the chassis up, we gave him the honour.