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Clubroom => Foto Forum => Topic started by: gettinold on April 12, 2012, 01:31:01 pm
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Sad how it all ended up for him.I never saw him live but I think it was him rode the bike in the XL honda add on telly jumping off desks etc.I used to know a friend of his called Norm Grey who was also a stunt rider:anyone heard of him?
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I saw him jump at Newcastle. 15 buses I think. My uncled worked and travelled with him. YZ250f's and YZ250G's from memory.There is a mock up bike similiar to what he used at the museum at Taree ( Nabiac) NSW
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my mates got a YZ250F that "apparently" has an ex Buggins front wheel in it.
it just looks like a normal wheel.
wish i had of seen him live.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zREWJRY8uc
And then - if interested - click on the Jennifer Keyte retrospective
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i saw Buggins as a 14 year old, made a big impression on me, so much so that for a year i practised Mono's whenever i could to be just like Dale as i thought he was very cool standing on the seat while pulling a mono.
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I was exactly the same Hoony - as a 10 year old. I saw him in Mildura and then at the Royal Melbourne Show... I soooo wanted to be him ! ;D
It was a sad waste the way it all ended.
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There's a few vid on you tube those were the days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRGQFLtqiQI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRGQFLtqiQI)
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If you want to feel the story?
Go to an hour and a half north of Newcastle to the Nabiac Museum. They have dale's capes and helmets etc, arranged in the best tribute to him anyone could imagine.
Heads up: There is a hell of a lot to see there. I go there once every year. A car load of friends, get there at 10 or 11am, get a pass-out to go to the local pub for lunch, only have a Tee-Bone only, best that any cattle have ever made :P. Then off course its back to the museum to see the rest of the six hundred or so ever-changing displayed bikes.
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http://www.nationalmotorcyclemuseum.com.au/gallery/bikes/images/Norton_Manx_2.jpg (http://www.nationalmotorcyclemuseum.com.au/gallery/bikes/index8.htm#.T4bCJtkjX4U)
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I owned his X YZ 250 for around 4 years sold it $900 i think it is still in mogo near batemans bay
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Saw his show at Gosford Showground many moons ago.....was good for it's time. yes, he seemed to have it all going for him? shame really
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I went to see him at Bega show grounds I think it was, and really enjoyed watching him jumping heaps of cars etc, etc.
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Sad how it all ended up for him.I never saw him live but I think it was him rode the bike in the XL honda add on telly jumping off desks etc.I used to know a friend of his called Norm Grey who was also a stunt rider:anyone heard of him?
Here's a bit on the making of that Honda add from AMCN 1978.
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I was exactly the same Hoony - as a 10 year old. I saw him in Mildura and then at the Royal Melbourne Show... I soooo wanted to be him ! ;D
It was a sad waste the way it all ended.
yes i was obsessed with being like him too, so much so it led to this sort of obsession many weekends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYiwhM23ycw
wish i still had that skill now, but its all too many Beers ago.
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Come hoony. I'm sure if you had a few more beers you could do it again! How about posting a 2012 version of the same stunt!! Lol seriously though I bet your glad you taped it and kept that? Well do e
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Hi hope this isn't hijacking but these shots are taken at Calder Park back in the early 80s late 70s by my Dad
Close up of Johnny Fogwell on xl500
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And finally the Crash
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Johnny Fogwell now has a restaurant in Caloundra these days and is still in good shape
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That's Johnny Fogwell the Qld stuntman. Carl Fogerty was World Superbike champ and not likely to be jumping cars on a XL500.. :)
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I was at that Calder Park Jump off with Johnny Fogwell & Gary Wells. i have old super 8 film (converted to DVD) of this event, watching them was great as i was about 14/15.
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Hoony I didn't know Gary Wells came out here. Wasn't he seriously injured in a jump at Caesars Palace that ended his career?
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not sure John, he was great when out here, he rode his CR250 sitting backwards and pulled some very long mono's at speed through all the gears, fogwell too was good, i have the video when he over jumped the landing ramp collapsing his front wheel. in hindsight i think the big fourstroke was not the best choice for jumping compared to the CR
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Styling up there Hoony, that would have been a TT250's high water mark
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Johnny Fogwell now has a restaurant in Caloundra these days and is still in good shape
Yep I think it's called Velvet Waters or something equally as cheesy
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Would anyone have a video link - to view this Sydney office advert, please?
I'd love to see it! :)
Sad how it all ended up for him.I never saw him live but I think it was him rode the bike in the XL honda add on telly jumping off desks etc.I used to know a friend of his called Norm Grey who was also a stunt rider:anyone heard of him?
Here's a bit on the making of that Honda add from AMCN 1978.
(http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/j413/vmxrider/miscellanoeus/P1010721.jpg)
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Geez Hoony, my current vinduro mount's a TT250G - I should give those antics a go myself! (god knows its got a short wheelbase....)
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Geez Hoony, my current vinduro mount's a TT250G - I should give those antics a go myself! (god knows its got a short wheelbase....)
TT250G Really Twisty, not many came into the country as the first model had not compliance of lights at all. easy bike to mono, but shit that seat was wide at the back..