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yes remember the outfit, we raced against it at the southern, was red if i remember right, will look the progamme out for his name.
RP
yes, it covers 99% of outfits, but i think thats the plan to get as many there as possible. Tony was well chuffed to get out that weekend, had a natter with him on saturday, great to ride the full circuit again, just a shame about the stupid chicane before the mountain. Great weekend tho, will be back next year.

I think a guy on the Wirral eventually bought the CBX outfit from Bill, used to race it quite a bit at Aintree.

Think it may have been Rob Cooper, was it one of Vince Winstanly's chassis's?

George Midfield rode the Magnum? Oh, someone tell my brother GE. . ok, I will.. let the wind up commence.. George was always slating outfits (OK, he had good grounds having lived with them so long ) when he was riding 250's when GE was

ianw wrote:Think it may have been Rob Cooper, was it one of Vince Winstanly's chassis's?

That's the guy Ian, and yes it was a winstanley

steve-e wrote:George Midfield rode the Magnum?

Only because he wasn't so keen on the passengering on the Friday. After Derek Plummer blew his BMW up Eddie Kiff passengered for the second session. On Saturday Graham Milton's son-in-law Martin Allen passengered both Tony and George.

illi wrote:John Holden also ran a six - AWESOME sound!

Yes, we bought Johns CBX outfit and raced it for two seasons in the early 80`s, got me hooked on the big sixes. The outfit i was riding at the Beezumph used to be Brian Tomlins honda 6 outfit, i have just finished re-building it, that was its second outing, Mallory 1000 bikes was the first time i had ridden it, and thats true, as in true sidecar style it was not finished till 2 hrs before we loaded up to go !

did Gordon Shand, think that is his name, race a honda 6 outfit at the southern in 86?

i remember him being behind us and it growling, the bike not Gordon.

Shandie never had a Honda 6 but he did growl! (still does!)

little chud wrote:did Gordon Shand, think that is his name, race a honda 6 outfit at the southern in 86?

i remember him being behind us and it growling, the bike not Gordon.

there were 3 honda 6 outfits there that year, we were on the ex John Holden one, Rob Cooper and manxman Kevin Ashworth on an unfaired one.

illi wrote:I take it that was your MotoMartin parked with the outfit, then. I was the guy that spoke to you on the Sat. about the Six and ouitfits in general. Didn`t you say the chassis origionally housed an Imp engine? Did your son enjoy his 1st experience of passengering!? Is he now hooked, or relieved it`s all over?!!

Hi there, yes both the Moto-Martins parked near the outfit were mine. When Brian Tomlins had it before the CBX was fitted it did have an imp engine in it. First time my son had been at Cadwell, problem with sticking throttle on first run, and lost him out at the bottom of the mountain !, but he got back on and did the other 3 sessions and is now definately hooked on it. Passed your regards on to Geoff the other night when i saw him also.

George Wakefield and Martin Allen aboard the Magnum at the Beezumph.

If my memory is any good . was it a guy called BILL THACKER ?? who had a 6 in a chair . Saw it at 3 sisters once , sure he was sponsored by a chippy ???