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Clubroom => Vinduro => Topic started by: IT400C on September 01, 2011, 12:59:32 pm
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Hi Guys,
I'd like to know which of you forum members were around the Enduro scene in South East Queensland from the early 70's through to around 1985 or 1988.
Whether it was as a worker at events, a rider, a photographer or a sponsor, it doesn't matter. I'd like to talk with you for a long term project I'm doing.
Whether you were involved around this time:
(http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo184/IT400C/Boonah%202%20Day%20-%201974/QTRABoonah1974-2.jpg)
Or this time:
(http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo184/IT400C/old%20photos/Pict00012-sm-1.jpg)
Post a reply, PM me, or email me at [email protected]. ;D
Thanks,
Tony Marshall
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Started racing SEQ events around 83. I did the Annand & Thompson 6 day series ( 6 one day events from april to maybe october). I remember winning my class in 85 on Bathurst day... How did I remember that?... They had a black and white tv set up on a card table with a generator( in the middle of nowhere) so the special test timer guys could watch the race. If you got in early you could watch a few minutes of it... Nowdays everyone watches it in colour on their phone...
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I remember winning my class in 85 on Bathurst day... How did I remember that?... They had a black and white tv set up on a card table with a generator( in the middle of nowhere) so the special test timer guys could watch the race. If you got in early you could watch a few minutes of it... Nowdays everyone watches it in colour on their phone...
Love that!! ;D
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Who would have thought eh......TV on your phone. I remember being in Spain for the sidecarcross GP and the 125 Juniors were support. They had a TV set up on the bonnet of a car watching the World Cup soccer. Couldn't get them to the start for their races.
now back to the enduro thread-pity Geoff Udy isn't on this forum.......
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pity Geoff Udy isn't on this forum.......
Yeah, I'll give him a ring soon - I've slowly been contacting the original names from the era. :)
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Started racing SEQ events around 83. I did the Annand & Thompson 6 day series ( 6 one day events from april to maybe october). I remember winning my class in 85 on Bathurst day... How did I remember that?... They had a black and white tv set up on a card table with a generator( in the middle of nowhere) so the special test timer guys could watch the race. If you got in early you could watch a few minutes of it...
Which class Fabulous ?
You should remember that one Tony , it was at Troy Speddings checkpoint at Sunshine Coast's round at Connondale.
Saw a lot of that Bathurst , ended up with Troy telling me to piss off and race ;D
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Clubman 500 with my trusty Husky 400wr
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You should remember that one Tony , it was at Troy Speddings checkpoint at Sunshine Coast's round at Connondale.
Nah, sorry Mike, I didn't ride any enduros that year... :'(
I'd dedicated 1985 to Drinking and Ferreting... ;D
Or was that Drunken Ferreting?? ???
Either way, 1985 was a bit of a blur... ::)
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I rekon he's talking about the last round of 84 at Peachester Tony and you were there for that one.
I don't have the results for that one but I do have them for 85 and it was held in the 4th month.
Only 36 finishers in the 85 one .
Bathurst is later in the year.
Won my class in the 84 one , got a gold. ;D
Sad story because I was the only one left so I had to come first. ;D ;D
Wasted a heap of time watching Bathurst with Troy and then Houred out waiting for the Dairy Cows to cross the road so they gave me 5mins back which made me the WINNER :o
I still wind up me mates over that one , they all rekon I should hang my head.
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I rekon he's talking about the last round of 84 at Peachester Tony and you were there for that one.
I actually found my compulsory third party insurance extension reciept for that one last week.. (remember the thing we used to have to go into an SGIO office and pay $1 for).
Was that one postponed from earlier in the year? the third party extension has a September (I think) date crossed out and a November date written in (and initialled by SGIO).
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Question from left field re suitable bikes of that era. Were the XR200s any good or the IT200 that much better.
I have an '84 XR200 that i have restoed once and worn out again. Would it be worth doing again for vinduro or should I move on?.
I would love a KTM from the era but a bit hard to find exactly what I want ATM.
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I did the 4 day in 88 that had a few internationals at it, I was on the same minute as Dave Armstrong who rode that event. They used Conondale as MX special test that year.
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Sure it was Peachester on the Bathurst day
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on Bathurst day... How did I remember that?... They had a black and white tv set up on a card table with a generator( in the middle of nowhere) so the special test timer guys could watch the race. If you got in early you could watch a few minutes of it... Nowdays everyone watches it in colour on their phone...
Similar experience here in Vic. must have been 87 or 88 I think.
I rocked into a checkpoint to see Bathurst on TV. It was an incentive to get to the next checkpoint with time up my sleeve so I could see some more.
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Yes I rode SE Qld and Northern NSW one-day and two-day Enduros and 6 hour Pony Expresses from 1977 to 1980.
I was a rider, set the courses for a couple of NDMTC events and also took some photos. Bikes were IT175D, TY175 and hybrid RM250C/SP370. Events I rode were mostly run by Southside MCC, Northern Districts MTC, Sunshine Coast MCC, Reliability Trials Club of Brisbane and can't remember name of the club who ran the NSW events but they were held at Uki, Rappville and maybe others.
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Yes I rode SE Qld and Northern NSW one-day and two-day Enduros and 6 hour Pony Expresses from 1977 to 1980.
I was a rider, set the courses for a couple of NDMTC events and also took some photos. Bikes were IT175D, TY175 and hybrid RM250C/SP370. Events I rode were mostly run by Southside MCC, Northern Districts MTC, Sunshine Coast MCC, Reliability Trials Club of Brisbane and can't remember name of the club who ran the NSW events but they were held at Uki, Rappville and maybe others.
Don't forget the QTRA's Boonah event! ;D
PM sent
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Question from left field re suitable bikes of that era. Were the XR200s any good or the IT200 that much better.
I have an '84 XR200 that i have restoed once and worn out again. Would it be worth doing again for vinduro or should I move on?.
I would love a KTM from the era but a bit hard to find exactly what I want ATM.
Troy Spedding did very well on IT's and Gavin McLeod did the same on his XR200.
Both of them were top of the heap at the time and very very fast.
Take your pick.
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Don't forget the QTRA's Boonah event! ;D
You cheat , you and your dad ran that one or at least helped. ;D
Dalby [ Kogan ] and Richmond River [ Toonumbar]
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Thanks Mike-back to rebuilding the XR. Locally there is a guy with a Ballards XR250 with a big bore kit going for a grand so I might look at that as well.
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Thanks Mike-back to rebuilding the XR. Locally there is a guy with a Ballards XR250 with a big bore kit going for a grand so I might look at that as well.
Once asked Gav how come he went sooo fast on the little XR.
His answer.
"Full throttle always and never touch the brakes".
I believed him.
He went to the Aus titles in Victoria ,in 85 I think, and Won the 250 class on that little XR200.
Gav was always out there. ;D
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Yes I rode SE Qld and Northern NSW one-day and two-day Enduros and 6 hour Pony Expresses from 1977 to 1980.
I was a rider, set the courses for a couple of NDMTC events and also took some photos. Bikes were IT175D, TY175 and hybrid RM250C/SP370. Events I rode were mostly run by Southside MCC, Northern Districts MTC, Sunshine Coast MCC, Reliability Trials Club of Brisbane and can't remember name of the club who ran the NSW events but they were held at Uki, Rappville and maybe others.
Don't forget the QTRA's Boonah event! ;D
PM sent
I don't remember QTRA Boonah but do remember riding at Canungra starting at the showgrounds. Haven't got to looking for photos yet.
Might even have one of the infamous Gav McLeod but on a TT350? taken at a Pony Express event I think somewhere near Stanthorpe in early 1980s. I do remember DNFing and then donating my engine oil to Gav after he lost his oil.
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My first enduro was Canungra 1981, sitting on the start line beside Geoff Petler on his register YZ125H (in IT blue)... ;D
Ahh, them were the days... ;)
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Still keen to hear from anybody who rode enduros in SE Qld in the 70's or early 80's!
PM or email me at [email protected]
Thanks,
Tony