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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: TooFastTim on March 23, 2009, 09:24:20 am
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Questions generally involve off-road bikes and riders. No silly bugger stuff like dates. So here we go:
1) Three father/son pairings have won off-road world championships. Name the fathers and the sons (hint: I'm excluding speedway, which is, debatably, an off-road discipline).
2) Who was the first rider to win all three MX world championships (hint, it was before all the MX1/MX2/MX3 crap).
3) The rider above won all three world championships but who was the first rider to win rounds in all three classes.
4) Which family has the unique distinction of producing 3 generations of TT winners? (There's a very strong off-road link here). Name the riders (there are 4).
5) Geoff Duke and Sammy Miller share something in common but it was the other way round. What is it?
6) Only one rider from south of the equator has ever scored points in a world championship trials round. Who is he?
7) Another rider from the southern hemispere would have won the world junior trials championship if it had been a championship at that time. He went on the greater things in another discipline. Who is he?
8) Name two bearded riders who won world MX championships.
9) Australia is the odd one out in the SANZAR alliance in never having produced a world MX champion but they cane close on two occasions. Who were the riders?
10) When Harry Everts won the 250 MX w/c, what was unusual about his bike?
Lets see if you mob do better that e-dirt.co.za.
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OK , I'll have a crack at some , although I only know a bit about MX & bugger all about trials .
1. Harry & Stefan Everts . Martin & Dougie Lampkin. Don't know the third pair.
2.Eric Geboers.
3.Would it be Jobe ?
4. N.F.I
5. N.F.I
6. N.F.I
7. Stefan Merriman?
8. Brad Lackey & Andrea Bartolini ?
9. Jeff Leisk & Chad Reed . Both came second , but I also thought that Andrew McFarlane finished one year in the placings as well ?
10.Was it the Puch with the twin carbs ?
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1) Two out of three. Hint, father & son won their w/c's in different disciplines.
2) Good
3) Nope.
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7) Yup
8) Ooh, I forgot about Bartolini. I was thinking of one of Lackeys contemporaries.
9) Yup
10) Yup.
Not bad. No detention for you.
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question 1 - eric & sylvan goebers ??
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question 1 - eric & sylvan goebers ??
Brothers.
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5. Geoff Duke was a works trials rider who won the world roadrace title, and Sam the Man was a roadracer who won the world trials championship.
8. Heikki Mikkola would fit onto that list...
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Very good GD. I'm impressed.
Missing answers:
1) Third pairing is Bill and Jeff Nillson. Motocross & enduros respectively.
3) Kees Van Der Ven
4) The Jefferies family. Allan (grandfather), Tony and Nick (sons) and (the late) David (Tonys son). Allan and Nick were works trials riders, Allan for Triumph, Nick for Honda.
6) Bruce Le Riche of South Africa.
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I considered the Jefferies mob, Tim, but wasn't aware that Allan had won a TT: which was that ?
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'bout 1938.
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Don't mean to be a turd in the punchbowl, but the IOMTT database lists him with 2 seconds and a DNF. Either way, he was a star, and so were all his progeny. Some of Yorkshire's finest ! ;)
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Yes. I made a cockup there and I'm eating crow. I was under the impression that Allan had won a TT. Still makes a nice fairytale.