Historic Racing September 10 and 11

[martymoose]

Pre 1963 race meeting at Pheasant Wood Circuit, 8 Prairie Oak Rd, Marulan. club members will be racing, it's a combined car and bike meeting. Come along and show your support. It's a club run for club plate bikes.

Marty

 

[bazzee]

Pre 1963 race meeting at Pheasant Wood Circuit, 8 Prairie Oak Rd, Marulan. club members will be racing, it's a combined car and bike meeting. Come along and show your support. It's a club run for club plate bikes.

Marty

Ah, I think my mate Phil is going with the Velo owners club.

 

[martymoose]

Vic Vasella is one of the organisers, the original rider of the eades SFC750. Should be a great weekend

 

[DavidH]

Good to see a photo of the 4pot racer Marty. Magnificent little beast.
I'm sure you will have lots of FUN.

 

[Vince]

I was looking forward to going to this but it's not happening, I haven't seen the boat tail cars since Amaroo Race Circuit went tits up. Watching them wrestle those huge bus-like steering wheels attached to skinny wheels was fantastic to see. Nice and slow so easy to see them slide out of bends.

 

[martymoose]

What's stopping you Vince? Weather has been ordered and will be perfect

 

[Vince]

Well there I was thinking it was this weekend and it's next weekend, must pull my finger out and get new shocks mounted.

 

[martymoose]

Wet track for the races, slip and slide in the A7. Heaps of fun!

 

[bazzee]

Keep an eye out for the Velocette Owners, my mate Phil should be there on his Le Mans II (obviously not a Velo...).

bazzee

 

[martymoose]

Nominated my dry lap time 1.49, sliding all over the place, don't think I'm in the hunt for a trophy. Second race wet track but not raining. Still sliding the back around. Was going really well till my foot slipped under the throttle. Probably lost 5 seconds on lap 4. Heaps of fun

 

[Vince]

Marty do they have a proper diff in them, remember heaps of sliding at Amaroo.

 

[breganzane]

Great event at an interesting little track I'd not been to before - really nice setup. Concrete walls directly around the outside of most corners looked interesting... sort of like a squiggley bitumen speedway circuit! Weather was very Phillip-Islandey. Marty dicing it up in the wet with two other completely different cars (one a huge early truck-like thing, one a tiny spindly little device with a 1000cc v-twin) was most entertaining! Chris' Chater-Lea sounded on-song even if the gearbox looked like a (literal) handful. Superb work both bikes.

 

[martymoose]

Hey Vince, yes, a proper diff, but the sidecar tyres fitted have minimal contact patch, great in the dry, bit dicey in the wet. Nearly looped it a couple of times, huge fun!

 

[martymoose]

A few more photos. Chris and the 1926 Brooklands 350 face cam Chater lea, 100 mph on the banked track, imagine that! My main competitor, a 1000cc v twin GN. Chain drive solid rear axle, the from wheels bounce when he goes through the corners!!! Everyone's got a supercharger.......
The rudge Ulster looks the real deal, long tank, machine turned engine plates, real nice. He nearly threw it down the road in the slippery conditions, nice save.

 

[martymoose]

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