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Title: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on May 19, 2013, 06:01:06 pm
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Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on May 19, 2013, 06:02:44 pm
 Ok! who? where and when?

 More to come ( hope)
 cheers pancho.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: marsman on May 19, 2013, 07:00:44 pm
Pretty sure they are both Hawkesbury Club Boys :-\; looks like Albert Newton on the left? ??? ... cant remember the guys name with him .. it will come to me!!! :D
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on May 19, 2013, 08:55:15 pm
 (http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u473/walter883/9_zpsfe76bac0.jpg) (http://s1069.photobucket.com/user/walter883/media/9_zpsfe76bac0.jpg.html)

 Paul Giles and Terry Lauer spectating at the 'International Scrambles round at Kembla.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on May 19, 2013, 09:09:26 pm
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On the road to Taree Old Bar S/C open meeting Merrylands club members Ken Zapirain, Gordon Gleave and lady member (can't remember name) Kens MSS on the trailer, my B33 obscured.
 Wolseley '680', best tow car ever, commonly known as 'Goldfinger'
 
  Mid 60's.
pancho.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on May 19, 2013, 09:14:48 pm
 marsman got one right!
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on May 19, 2013, 09:20:48 pm
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The '68 6hr machine.

cheers
 Note the grasshopper rear tyre, 21'' front, no mufflers, indestuctable non swing up footrests, all the good gear of the day. Not forgetting 'Molybaked' chains and moybdenum-di-sulphide added to the engine oil and added to the oil can for squirting onto the chains during refuel pit stops.
pancho
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: Paul552 on May 19, 2013, 09:39:03 pm
Man that's awesome

Can't say anything else!!!!
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: firko on May 19, 2013, 09:48:11 pm
I wouldn't have recognised that as Gilesy in the top photo....but it is. I love the photo of the two blokes (Alby Newton showing off his ripped body???) in the pits with the Cotton and Beeza. The bloke on the right looks to have mastered mobile phone technology 40 years early 8).
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on May 19, 2013, 10:18:22 pm
 Albert and his Cotton with Milton Vincent. The Cotton was Albys' Milton was riding a 250 Ducati, Kembla mid 60's.
 cheers pancho.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: firko on May 19, 2013, 10:32:49 pm
Back in my old street racing days there was a bloke who lived at Matraville who had a 292 Cusso V8 in one of those Wolesley 6/80s. It was a frighteningly fast car for the late 60's and the king of the Bunnerong Powerhouse road until Peter King got his genuine '62 Chevy Impala 409SS Bubbletop in late '69. That thing made all of our hotty FJ's seem kind of insignificant. It'd still be considered a seriously quick car today.(sorry for the little sidetrack).
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: JAP 454 on May 19, 2013, 10:58:36 pm
I wouldn't have recognised that as Gilesy in the top photo....but it is. I love the photo of the two blokes (Alby Newton showing off his ripped body???) in the pits with the Cotton and Beeza. The bloke on the right looks to have mastered mobile phone technology 40 years early 8).
Firko, have another look at the bike with the Cotton, It's a BSA Bantam tank on an AJ or Matchy.
I really like the Tribsa Wally, wouda bin fun ta ride!!
Foss
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on May 20, 2013, 04:47:12 pm
 Ya right Foss, I've got a soft spot for T100 Tribsas' ever since that day!.
cheers.

 Mark, That old Wolseley was a magnificent old low mileage trade in where I worked (Holden Dealer). I bought it for 50 quid! 1owner!
  Stuck to the road like glue, fast enough when you got it wound up.

 The thing had a 'orrible cam profile which burnt out valves No 2 & 3. infamously, When it did it to me I found it the most frustrating valve regrind to do, so I fixed it and sold it.

 A V8 would have been a good plan!
 
   I new Bert Jones pretty well and badgered him to regrind the cam profiles but he said "no bloody way, they are a pain to do.'

 I then bought my E.H and thought 'this thing doesn't handle' after 'ol gold finger'.

cheers pancho.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on May 28, 2013, 03:21:56 pm
 I forget how I dood it! bugger!  have to confer with my adviser again! :'(
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: Rossvickicampbell on May 28, 2013, 04:53:16 pm
my dad has a 1948 Wolseley 680 - allowed to be done up as a Police car replica and shown!!!!  For the time they did go well.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on May 29, 2013, 09:10:47 am
Mine was a '52 model. Very quiet on the road, stuck well to the road but had massive body role. It needed a stabillizer bar. The front end had SIX shock absorbers!

 Two tellies and one lever action each side, all original!

 It was a one owner when I got it, the paint was all polished through in spots, I had it resprayed Arora Gold  EJ Premier colour.
 
                 Nice.
 cheers.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: Purple Dave on May 29, 2013, 11:59:29 am
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 Paul Giles and Terry Lauer spectating at the 'International Scrambles round at Kembla.

Great shots Wally !!......I co-commentated the NSW MX Titles late 70's at Dargle with Paul Giles.......as an MXer, I was a much better commentator than a rider...... ;D
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 08, 2013, 05:49:23 pm
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 Any one know who? I do, I took it!
pancho.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 08, 2013, 06:17:48 pm
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Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: matcho mick on June 08, 2013, 09:09:38 pm
ouch,norton lowrider?/?,musta been candlestick Aj frame,a matcho wouldn't do that,one jump too many  ;), :P
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: SlideRulz on June 08, 2013, 09:27:19 pm
Awesome photo's Puncho.
But where Wally?
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 08, 2013, 11:08:42 pm
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Actually it's a 350 Ariel in the Ajay frame.
 Taken at Moorebank. This rough looking thing was built by a Merrylands clubmate named Leo Brunbauer and I rode it in a race at Kembla previously and I was amazed at how easy it handled and how perfect Leo had it set up. Leo got 3rd in the 350 class oz titles at Kembla in a top class field.
 I wonder sometimes where Leo ended up after going to eN Zud. A clever tradesman.
 
 No 67 is Willouby Club hard working past secretary Len Main negotiating the infamous 'Sorbent Hill' at Moorebank.
 cheers pancho.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 09, 2013, 11:36:37 am
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 At the end of the sand section Moorebank, Pretty sure it's one of the Balchin boys, Bit fuzzy.
cheers
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 09, 2013, 11:40:45 am
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 Bunch of young fellers in '68. Fred Boyd Jim Winstanley, Bill Dillow the late Bob Ely, +pancho
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 09, 2013, 11:44:42 am
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 Arcadia probably a S.A.C. meeting circa '62
pancho
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 09, 2013, 11:47:05 am
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 My back yard Villawood. The Jawa that sent me into orbit at sorbent hill, and the Payne framed 350 Beeza that had no guts but got me into 'B' grade.
pancho
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 09, 2013, 11:53:46 am
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The late Arthur Silentjew on his nice T100 rigid at Arcadia.
pancho
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: firko on June 09, 2013, 12:48:37 pm
Good stuff Wal.....you never hear great old names like Silentjew any more eh? That's a beauty, a bit like the late Arthur Hamburger ;D. Is it Barry Balchin in the Moorebank photo?
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 09, 2013, 03:28:43 pm
 Yeah Mark, in the true oz tradition of nic names we called our Arthur 'Halfa Sanshoe'
 
That went well when I used to do the MDMCC club news in the "motor cycle clubman', I put in there after a club day that "I'd been beaten by half a wheel before but never by halfa sanshoe",  We miss Arthur, a gentleman who went through VERY hard times as a child in WW2.
Cheers pancho.

 Who remembers the ol' Motor cycle Clubman ? Great little Sydney based mag Very ably editored by Mrs Pat Howie.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: SlideRulz on June 09, 2013, 08:59:33 pm
Who's the guy on number 2 Wally?
Lyndal Butler posted a shot from Goulburn on Facebook a month ago and he was in the background.
I'm not sure what year Dad registered the number.
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Post by: jimg1au on June 10, 2013, 06:51:00 am
wally got any more ariel shots note the bsa box behind it
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 10, 2013, 10:34:28 am
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 At the end of the sand section Moorebank, Pretty sure it's one of the Balchin boys, Bit fuzzy.
cheers
I think his name is Graham, not sure.

Jim I have a lot more to go through I think there is one more of the old Ariel some where, while I can remember how I did these I'll do some more.
cheers
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 10, 2013, 05:48:43 pm
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Fishers leap Moorebank.
cheers
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 10, 2013, 05:53:14 pm
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 Looks like Terry Poole? at Sorbent. The one behind is a familiar No. but I don't remember.
cheers
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: yamaico on June 10, 2013, 06:57:38 pm
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Fishers leap Moorebank.
cheers

Hey Pancho,
Are you sure that's Moorebank? Sure looks like Kembla to me, even the tower.
Pete.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 11, 2013, 10:06:17 am
 You could be right Pete!  the left side of the screen looks a bit wrong for 'Fishers' and  a lot of trees!.  I'll check other slides in that lot for more clues.
pancho.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: Purple Dave on June 12, 2013, 09:14:01 pm
Yeah Mark, in the true oz tradition of nic names we called our Arthur 'Halfa Sanshoe'
 
That went well when I used to do the MDMCC club news in the "motor cycle clubman', I put in there after a club day that "I'd been beaten by half a wheel before but never by halfa sanshoe",  We miss Arthur, a gentleman who went through VERY hard times as a child in WW2.
Cheers pancho.

 Who remembers the ol' Motor cycle Clubman ? Great little Sydney based mag Very ably editored by Mrs Pat Howie.

Hi Wally
My Uncle was a bookbinder and he bound this edition of The Motorcycle Clubman for me. It was the first motorcycle trophy I ever won......Central MCC Sports Day Championship in 1967.... :D :D

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Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: Purple Dave on June 12, 2013, 09:20:24 pm
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A report on NSW Short Circuit Title 1967......


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Post by: Purple Dave on June 12, 2013, 09:24:04 pm
An interesting FOR SALE ad........NO OFFERS !! >:( >:(



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 :o :o :o :o
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Post by: SlideRulz on June 12, 2013, 09:30:26 pm
Langy must've been selling that 350 for someone else, it had a standard motor.
Don't you love the art of reporting from back then, awesome.
Pot getters?
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 13, 2013, 11:53:12 am
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 Top one is of course THE Maestro.
 Amaroo slides processed in Feb'64
cheers
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 13, 2013, 11:57:07 am
Yeah Mark, in the true oz tradition of nic names we called our Arthur 'Halfa Sanshoe'
 
That went well when I used to do the MDMCC club news in the "motor cycle clubman', I put in there after a club day that "I'd been beaten by half a wheel before but never by halfa sanshoe",  We miss Arthur, a gentleman who went through VERY hard times as a child in WW2.
Cheers pancho.

 Who remembers the ol' Motor cycle Clubman ? Great little Sydney based mag Very ably editored by Mrs Pat Howie.

Hi Wally
My Uncle was a bookbinder and he bound this edition of The Motorcycle Clubman for me. It was the first motorcycle trophy I ever won......Central MCC Sports Day Championship in 1967.... :D :D

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Good stuff Alvin!, Don' suppose you have any old MDMCC 'club news by pancho? I never kept any!
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: firko on June 13, 2013, 12:11:54 pm
Wally those Amaroo shots are priceless. Pardon my ignorance but who's the Maestro? I'm only a young sprog y'know, I was only thirteen when those shots were taken.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 13, 2013, 12:36:12 pm
 That's Herb Jefferson on the unbelievable B31 Beeza that nobody could catch. Often wondered who did the engine work, cams etc. Also just noticed looking at that pic how far back he had the footrests mounted. Hagon frames were just around the corner of the calender!
 Glad you like them!, pity I was a bit slow chasing the aputure/shutter speed adjustments on the ol' Lieca!
 Still more left! cheers.
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Post by: pancho on June 13, 2013, 01:12:18 pm
 Geoffry doin' it his way!
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Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 13, 2013, 01:32:18 pm
(http://the top one is Bill Dillow.http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u473/walter883/40_zps438fba65.jpg) (http://s1069.photobucket.com/user/walter883/media/40_zps438fba65.jpg.html)Bill Dillow
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Note the blue flag at the ready!
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Ken Zapirain on his MSS showing MDMCC colours!
Amaroo '64
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Post by: pancho on June 13, 2013, 02:32:55 pm
My 1st and only international rider ;D?? Circa '64 natural terrain scramble Tasmania near Longford. Me No 29 borrowed bike & gear.
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 Leon? Street came over from VIC for the event.
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Post by: firko on June 13, 2013, 03:08:37 pm
More good stuff Wally.....I took the liberty to brighten up your photo a bit in a bid to try to identify the bike but still can't make it out. What were you riding Wal? You look like Marlon Brando talking to Lee Marvin in an out take from the Wild One with your rocker jacket and fingerless gloves ;D. I'm impressed that Alwyn Kurts could take some time off from filming the Homicide TV series to man a flag for the club.
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Post by: pancho on June 13, 2013, 05:09:23 pm
 Yeah Cool eh Mark? Duplex Beeza B33.
cheers
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: pancho on June 13, 2013, 05:20:47 pm
I lost Bill Dillow, here he comes again!
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pancho.
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Post by: SlideRulz on June 13, 2013, 06:02:19 pm
The quality of these photo's is awesome and a big window into the way it was.
This stuff takes me back to my childhood especially Amaroo, a great example of how much the track actually changed in height.
My biggest memorry of Amaroo was sneaking up through the bush ans sitting right on the edge of the Main Curve, I mean Straight and the cave that was above turn 2.
You're a legend Walter.
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: Purple Dave on June 13, 2013, 06:19:45 pm
Yeah Mark, in the true oz tradition of nic names we called our Arthur 'Halfa Sanshoe'
 
That went well when I used to do the MDMCC club news in the "motor cycle clubman', I put in there after a club day that "I'd been beaten by half a wheel before but never by halfa sanshoe",  We miss Arthur, a gentleman who went through VERY hard times as a child in WW2.
Cheers pancho.

 Who remembers the ol' Motor cycle Clubman ? Great little Sydney based mag Very ably editored by Mrs Pat Howie.

Hi Wally
My Uncle was a bookbinder and he bound this edition of The Motorcycle Clubman for me. It was the first motorcycle trophy I ever won......Central MCC Sports Day Championship in 1967.... :D :D

(http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp45/triumph51/CCF12062013_00000_zpse78b5092.jpg) (http://s396.photobucket.com/user/triumph51/media/CCF12062013_00000_zpse78b5092.jpg.html)
Good stuff Alvin!, Don' suppose you have any old MDMCC 'club news by pancho? I never kept any!

Sorry Pancho.......that is the only one that has survived, thanks to bookbinding......I checked through this edition, but there is no club report for Merrylands club......however there is for my NEW club, Gosford..... :D
Title: Re: I dood it! a slide!
Post by: Purple Dave on June 13, 2013, 06:26:17 pm
Geoffry doin' it his way!
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What a great shot of Geoff Curtis.......the TARies hated anyone who put his foot down on the black stuff. NOW ONLY THE BEST RIDERS DO IT !!! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: SlideRulz on June 13, 2013, 06:34:25 pm
I was 7 when you won that Dave, shit you're old.
That shot of GC is my all time favourite Wally, as my dad said, "That little bugger can ride anything".
Went to the Showground reunion on Sunday and did a walk of the track, GC is the last name on the plaque of rememberance.
Geoff was a family friend and I got a cold chill when I walked past the part of the track where he sadly left us, I got the same feeling when we passed the spot where my carreer ended as well.
As Booey said, " The Showground was a bloody dangerous track and if you got it wrong you could lose all the skin off your arse".
My sentiments exactly.
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Post by: Slider29 on June 13, 2013, 07:16:36 pm
What a blast from the past Punchy. Keep em comin'.The '60's and '70's just seemed so right.
Wonderful laidback lifestyle etc.
regards  Mark
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Post by: pancho on June 14, 2013, 01:07:44 pm
 I would have taken those Amoroo pics about the time my left wrist was in plaster for three months,  [broken wrist courtesy of Arcadia before I cut the lock stops of the steering head]. There will be more somewhere. I took some good shots at Oran park road racing 'cos I' NOT a road racer!
cheers pancho
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Post by: JAP 454 on June 14, 2013, 07:45:26 pm
Hey, Wal I had a yarn with Ray Curtis about the pic of GC at Oran Park, Ray tells me that Geoff is on Geoffery Coombes' 500 Goldie that he had let GC " make use of " while he , Geoffery Coombes, was OS.
Ray also told me he has just been lent a 650 Suzy roadie " to make use of ' while the owner is OS, not having a leather jacket , he went to the St.V. de P. leathergoods emporium and came out with a Brando LJ. in good nick

Top pix you've been posting, Wal, it was a different era, Eh ? nobody worried too much about "bling" back then, just went out and raced 'em !!
Foss
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Post by: KB171 on June 14, 2013, 08:16:29 pm
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    That's a Fantastic pic Pancho, would've paid quids to have been there to see it, Brilliant.  (http://s1260.photobucket.com/user/KAB171/media/41_zps976f7e4e.jpg.html)
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Post by: firko on June 14, 2013, 09:49:13 pm
I can remember Bathurst enduro rider Alan Cunynghame getting into a lot of shit for his motocross/dirt track riding style NSW road racing circuits back in the seventies. The thing that made him so hated by the road racers was his squaring off corners like a motocrosser and sliding with his foot down like Curtis in the above photo. Conservative racers of the era jacked up and continuously reported him to stewards who would often disqualify him. The was a big hoo haa about it in Revs and AMCN at the time. The thing that really got up their noses though was that he was beating them on a CR250 Honda motocrosser.
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Post by: SlideRulz on June 14, 2013, 10:07:10 pm
I remember that Firko, why are we not surprised?
Check out the rubber mark a bit wider than GC in that photo, the lap before maybe?
What a rider, he may have been at the tail of the field but as my father used to say, the little shit can ride a bike.
I gotta go, the Police Chopper is hovering around nearby, I think my sons on his way home.
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Post by: firko on June 14, 2013, 10:30:58 pm
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Check out the rubber mark a bit wider than GC in that photo, the lap before maybe
Even better check the oil dumped on the very edge of the track in the full photo of Geoff Curtis. Someone had an expensive day out. ::)
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Post by: KB171 on June 14, 2013, 10:42:31 pm
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Check out the rubber mark a bit wider than GC in that photo, the lap before maybe
Even better check the oil dumped on the very edge of the track in the full photo of Geoff Curtis. Someone had an expensive day out. ::)

Would'nt mind that Castrol drum to the left of the oil spill ;), Whats the Gal post doin planted on the outside of the corner ? :-\
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Post by: pancho on June 15, 2013, 11:43:57 am
 Yeah Slides, I think I have another shot of Geoff on the first lap coming around energol in that race.  It's a bit blurry in the foreground from Fred Boyd standing next to me waving his hand towards the track yelling 'Look at this"
 pancho.

 Meanwhile I've just loaded up my bike for tomorrows Syd.West rnd.

 I'll be looking for a pit crew so just taking me slider.

cheers.