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Exmoor beast: At least Newbies are listening.

Suggest every post should be listed as Country then City and spill your Bregenzie shit: Such as: Canada, Sudbury Ontario - Breganzie (George Evan's-Slim's Motorcycles Shop) 1970 750 SFO... etc. That's my Breganzie ride. From there we can pin it right down to the dealer and the buyer - You don't have to be that precise but the country and city is important ;o)
 
We supplied a triple motor to someone in the seventies think it was Len Diggins - my old mate Ray Palmer  (MOtorliner) set up the deal -  could be wrong on the name.. we watched it race at Lydden - took off the line and left everyone for dead - couldn't keep it tight on the 1st bend and gradually lost places to the lighter mainly Brit powered outfits.  we did knock out another motor - rider fitted 3 Wal Phillips fuel injectors - probably why we never saw it race! Great times with a great bunch of really hard men!
 
chrisk said:
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He carved up the track, wheeling through two and four, by the third lap he broke the 440Mt track record and came into the pits after six laps. There was a standing round of applause in the pits, he pulled the lanyard, fell on the ground and screamed out ?I am now fucked?
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excellent :))

 
phil37 said:
We supplied a triple motor to someone in the seventies think it was Len Diggins - my old mate Ray Palmer  (MOtorliner) set up the deal -  could be wrong on the name.. we watched it race at Lydden - took off the line and left everyone for dead - couldn't keep it tight on the 1st bend and gradually lost places to the lighter mainly Brit powered outfits.  we did knock out another motor - rider fitted 3 Wal Phillips fuel injectors - probably why we never saw it race! Great times with a great bunch of really hard men!
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Could well have been Len Diggins, although I only remember him riding a KH750 sidecar. I know Neville Penfold ended up with a Laverda engined outfit and could well have put Wal Phillips drippers on it!
You couldn?t actually buy a grasstrack sidecar, you had to make them yourself so they were all so different, my first Wasp frame I bought s/hand and Rod Pallant fitted a Z900 in it ( it had a Weslake in before) I was only just eighteen . The big problem is the races are only two minutes , so if you do two practice sessions and four heats and a final - you get just under fifteen minutes riding which is why sidecar drivers are so old !
 
Hard to believe how dolt most foreigners are aware of the history regarding the Canadian Motorcyclists enthusiasts Vs the Breganzie motorcycle ;o(

Perhaps you should take the argument up with Wolfgang.
 
Exmoor beast: I said, I only comment on SF's. But then again I do not like the Hi-Anarchy in which this forum has taken.
 
Well I bought a works Jawa long track rolling chassis from Olli Olsen in an Indian restaurant In Coventry (Midlands UK) where we had arranged to meet after his nights work at Coventry Speedway. Fitted my Weslake pushrod motor and it was the best handling bike I ever raced. Came with a Jawa two speed semi automatic gearbox and for a simple explanation, there is no neutral so you engage low gear for the start, pin the motor and drop the clutch. When the rear wheel (22" diameter for traction) stops spinning you pull a short lever on the left bar under the clutch lever which bangs the box into top and you hang on for grim death along with another dozen or so maniacs trying to get to the first turn in front. Trust me, there is nothing on Gods Earth that comes close to that experience.
 
Being on the start line with 8-10 other Jawas all revving to max, you can?t actually discern your own engine because all the vibration is  synchronised . The elastic flyaway gate flings past your eyes, out with the clutch and your aboard a bike that weighs the same as  a FS1E but has 60hp and accelerates faster than a F1car!
No one told me they go faster when you roll the throttle off ( they find extra grip) I thought I was going too quick into a corner and rolled off- warp speed into the ropes!
Then there?s riding a speedway bike too fast and knowing your going to hit the wall on the exit of the bend and there?s nothing you can do but wait for the impact. All character building stuff!

 
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Clipped the wall on turn two of the outside track (I don?t think the inside track was there in those days), I seem to remember the track was 860Mt, and the gearing was long.

We raced 6 up, when at this track. It was the only egg shaped track I rode.

Turn two was coming out of the big end, and fast.... fast, fast. When the back wheel clipped the fence the front came up, the bike launched to the right and the footpeg bit in hard on the way down while all crossed up the wrong way. ::) That?s when I felt the bloke behind me :o he followed me in to the fence ...........
Needless to say, my race day was finished.


 
Glad it?s not just me! That track looks superb, the egg shape does bugger your gearing but makes for a hell of a track, we have had grass tracks with one tight corner but never to that extent. 860 mts with a long bend you could really get humming. We did have a 1000 yard track in Aylesbury ( that?s in England ,Ron ) but it was two loooong straights with tight corners so you had to slow up quite a bit but on a sidecar you were pinned. You picture reminds me of Ivan running on the horse trotting track with the nose fairing, now that was fast.
 
chassis wise you could well be correct Exmore Beast
I do have to report that "Mad" Mick Cameron passed away  a few years ago, as you probably know his son, Rob, has competed in every kind of sidecar competition that is possible, drag races excepted, trials, grass track, road racing formula11 and clasiccs using BMW engines, very, very competitive sidecar wise, he now runs a clothing company. Mad Mick was always a pleasure to watch, he never backed down for anything, puncture's, broken frames you name it, and also if he was leading by a country mile, still totally flat out always, very exciting. Rob drove his dad to the church for the funeral on his own road bike, a single cylinder AJS and flat sidecar bed, with the biggest open mega that I have ever seen, no lights, just minimum, smelling of R and making lots of noise in the tiny village of Eysford, there were a lot of us on road bikes at that one, Rob did not wear a crash helmet, the police were present due to the huge numbers blocking the village, the old man would have loved it, on entering the church yard Rob all but did a doughnut, his suit flailing in the wind, there were a lot of grown men reduced to tears, me also. So glad that I knew him.
RIP MICK

CLEM
 
Last saw Mick at the Mallory sidecar festival, Rob was riding the BMW in a grasstrack style. Mick was one of the last to ride a traditional style outfit with any success, I can remember him winning three big meeting on the trot. I think the 151 race number was passed down from grandad. Foot & mouth did grasstrack irreparable damage and a lot of my contemporaries went road racing-in fact my old CBR1000 engine was put in a F1 outfit. Spent a lot of time racing in Kent, very high standard of racing and of course ,left handlers.Passengered a left hander once for a mad Welsh man Alwyn Balman  it was an ancient outfit with Ariel wheels and an Exup engine, chain came off when we spun on third lap, I?ve never been so pleased to break down in all my life! But I can say I did the full grasstrack experience, solo, right/left 2/4 stroke sidecar and passengered.
 
CK.......Gates open and thought about goin on for a skid  :LOL:
Just came thru Tawonga gap and was in the groove.
 

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