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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: PEZBerq on July 11, 2010, 06:47:21 pm
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Excuse my ignorance but who was riding the No 32 Maico in Legends laps on Sunday ??? ??? I'm putting tags on my photos before I forget.....shit I forgot already :o :o Curse you old age....or is it red wine ::) ::)
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Andrew Bailey
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Cheers for that. No relation to the Beetle? ;D ;D
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Who the f--k is Andrew Bailey. :D
Cheers for that. No relation to the Beetle? ;D ;D
No!
But there's another another that will have to be tracked down for next year. He is a legend!
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There are plenty of 70's and 80's legends that should be tracked down and invited to be at Classic Dirt, it's getting stale with the same small group year after year.
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One word "LANDMAN"
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Unlike the other "32" legend ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Ngw6cT4wA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Ngw6cT4wA)
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The camera couldn't keep up...... :P
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Cheers for that. No relation to the Beetle? ;D ;D
given he used to ride for Suzuki,
where is he?
he'd be an asset to CD.
i saw him wheelie an RM250 around raymond terrace in the lunch break of a MR motocross.
cool.
and i saw him going bar to bar with Andrew Bailey at Tuckerimba {via Lismore} on a Husky back in the late 70's with a flat tire.
way cool.......
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what about noel harker in my eyes he is a suzuki legend and a great bloke to boot. and a great poet.any way that my say .
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Filled in the feedback form to Suzuki Aust (Laverton Vic) on the CD7 event and test ride on the RM450,,,put all good and some written comments.
Great to be part of the feedback survey.
We have got to look after Suzuki and any other sponsors of such an event.
Anytime you go to a Suzuki shop say thanks for Classic Dirt--if they don't know what your talking about,spend that extra time and tell em to check on their Suzuki website.............ham it up guys..
Lets get CD8 happening and show support of this event. ;D :P
cheers Alison
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Vandy i was there also when Beetle wheelied around Raymond Terrace.. too cool.! He definitely should be included.
I'd have to agree also with Noel Harker.. He was a gun racer in the 70's and still goes hard now in his 50's... both on and off the track!
I think some more effort needs to be put into getting these legends of our sport out to Classic Dirt events.
Bahnsy... Landman for sure, along with Gary and Trevor Flood, Steve Cramer, Trevor Williams, Ray Vandenberg, Pelle Granquist and several other stars of the era.. and what about Jeff Leisk!
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Filled in the feedback form to Suzuki Aust (Laverton Vic) on the CD7 event and test ride on the RM450,,,put all good and some written comments.
Great to be part of the feedback survey.
We have got to look after Suzuki and any other sponsors of such an event.
Anytime you go to a Suzuki shop say thanks for Classic Dirt--if they don't know what your talking about,spend that extra time and tell em to check on their Suzuki website.............ham it up guys..
Lets get CD8 happening and show support of this event. ;D :P
cheers Alison
Good advice, Al! ;D
Suzuki are really supporting the industry and they deserve our support. When I did a fundraiser a couple of years ago, they gave us 2 V-Stroms to ride and a LT-Z50 to raffle off! But more impressive was the manner in which they gave that support. e.g. Perry Morison pulled me aside and made it clear that if there was any point where I had to make a choice between promoting Suzuki and raising money for the kids, that I was to get the support for the kids first. Don't tell him I said so, but he's a good man. ;D
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We had planned to bring the great Per Klitland with us to CD7 but he has a very sick wife and couldn't come in the end. He rode at Broadford CD4 and visited without riding at CD5 and loves the CD concept. Per sold more Maicos than any other person in the first half of the seventies through his absolute dominance on them. He would have won a lot more titles than he did but for silly crashes and some awful bad luck. His Grand National win at Christmas Hills in (I think) 1972 is legendary.
We also hoped to have 1971 Aussie 500 Champ (and works Alron rider) Brian Clarkson in the Kevlar Kompound as well but he ended up in hospital with some sort of bug and missed out but promised he'll come next year. Matt Daley, Australias best racer from the late sixties live just up the road from Conondale and had a ride on Husky Petes bike at CD6 and looked great. i'd love to see him back again. What about Graeme Smythe? Frank Stanborough would love to catch up with his old Kawasaki team rider.
Of the later era racers I'd like to see Eddie Warren, Dacka , Pelle Granquist, John Berhens, Peter Ploen again and what about Leisky? There's still heaps of old champs yet to taste the nostalgia of Classic Dirt. If you know one give him a shakeup.
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Quite a notable number of old Pros hate the old bikes, and wouldn't be seen dead near a vintage event. They move on; walk away; etc.
Which I think is bizarre.
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So true Roger....When I interviewed Craig Dack for an ADB article prior to CD4 at Broadford I asked him if he'd be hanging around to catch up with old mates and check out the vintage stuff, he looked at me with a funny look and said that he's not remotely interested in the old stuff. When we'd finished our photo shoot he and the CDR crew out of there as quick as a flash...as if they didn't want to allow themselves to be infected by the vintage 'disease'.
The main reason I stopped writing for ADB after 22 years was that I was sick of defending vintage bikes to Wigan and others within the inner sanctum. They continually referred to them as old shit and showed an ever shortening comittment to vintage MX. It was a big joke to them....which was evident in the crap they had me doing. They didn't, and still don't get it.
They're not all like that though. Back in the early 90's I spent a day with Guy'Airtime' Cooper and was pleasantly surprised to find that he had a collection of vintage bikes including, naturally, a couple of Coopers. He was in the middle of restoring his dads old Montesa Cappra GP at the time.
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I saw Guy Cooper at the Ekka Supercross in Bris Vegas in the early 90's....could out jump everyone by a mile, was riding for KTM. I had a video...DVD? of "Coop", about his carreer and his shed was to die for...and full of bikes!!! I dont think he got rid of any. I wonder if he does any sort of vintage in the States? He also was a Suzuki rider most of his carreer so maybe another for the boy's to entice over to ride the BEST VMX track in the world. (Conondale of course) ;D. Firko, what happened to Super Hunky?. Remember boy's, the Conondale Classic is on in a few weeks, not too late to enter!.
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Cheers for that. No relation to the Beetle? ;D ;D
given he used to ride for Suzuki,
where is he?
he'd be an asset to CD.
i saw him wheelie an RM250 around raymond terrace in the lunch break of a MR motocross.
cool.
and i saw him going bar to bar with Andrew Bailey at Tuckerimba {via Lismore} on a Husky back in the late 70's with a flat tire.
way cool.......
Pretty sure hes riding enduros around with chris watson around the back blocks of cessnock/wollombi nowadays.
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What about Graeme Smythe? Frank Stanborough would love to catch up with his old Kawasaki team rider.
I'll put all me polite airs and graces on when I hopefully catch up with Graeme and stick a CD7 flyer in his hand in August ;D ;)
cheers Alison
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They're not all like that though. Back in the early 90's I spent a day with Guy'Airtime' Cooper and was pleasantly surprised to find that he had a collection of vintage bikes including, naturally, a couple of Coopers. He was in the middle of restoring his dads old Montesa Cappra GP at the time.
Guy's a pretty handy trials rider too (as is Kevin Schwantz). I think Guy just loves bikes and the people that ride 'em.
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When I met Guy, he'd just been presented with a Vintage Iron restored Cooper and was hanging to get out to the desert and give it a fang. We met up a couple of days later and I was blown away by his collection of 'stuff'. He was the top supercross racer in the USA at the time but his heart was in the history and old bikes of the sport as much as it was for his works Suzukis* and his modern racing 'profession'.
On the local front, Superbike legend Shawn Giles posesses the same cool attitude. Shawn has a pretty impressive collection of vintage motocrosser's and dirt trackers including a very nice Honda XL420 powered Cheney. He's indicated many times that once his racing career is over he'll compete at the odd VMX meeting. He was a regular on his Elsinore 125 before contractual obligations stepped in to prevent him riding in amateur events. Don't let Shawns road racing career make you think he's a 'one trick pony'. He's a very good A grade standard motocross rider and exceptional dirt tracker as those who remember his amazing battles with Eddie Warren at the Bathurst Long Track back in the 90's.
* Guy Coopers factory Suzuki from 1990/91 was owned by a bloke in Muswellbrook or Singleton whose name I've forgotten. He actually used the bike, still resplendent in its Surf washing powder sponsors livery, as a marshalls bike at the '92 Cessnock ISDE. I rode the bike around for a few hours during the 6 day and was amazed at the unbelievable engine. It had power all over the range but was as easy to ride at trail speeds as an XR250. It was a very trick unit, I wonder if he's still got it?
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Having raced 125's in enduros I know you can (with liberal use of the clutch) get away with some impressive antics.
A few years ago I bumped into Peter Williams of Norton fame. He summed it up nicely when he said: "it's the people man, the people that keep us in this sport.".
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Bahnsy i was talking to a bloke from victoria at CD and mentioned running the Unzud round of Mr Motocross for Vince tossarero and mentioned bringing Mike landerman to unzud he has been working on getting himover his bad blood with another top rider to get him to a C/D