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Marque Remarks => British (BSA, Greeves, Triumph etc) => Topic started by: mx250 on April 02, 2009, 09:42:38 pm

Title: Feel the thunder.........
Post by: mx250 on April 02, 2009, 09:42:38 pm

(http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/hofimages/Don_Derek_Rickman.jpg)
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Title: Re: Feel the thunder.........
Post by: VMX247 on April 02, 2009, 09:58:23 pm

yep and they sure have the right era numbers on too  ;)  8)

Title: Re: Feel the thunder.........
Post by: MX? on April 02, 2009, 10:00:27 pm

Great shot! Lot's of them there!
(http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/hofimages/J_Smith3.jpg)

Title: Re: Feel the thunder.........
Post by: GD66 on April 02, 2009, 11:00:03 pm

Woohoo, great pics ! Who's that chasing Smithy in the second shot, is it Don Rickman on the Triumph Metisse ? Love the sibling shot on the bangers, too. Keep 'em coming.... ;D

Title: Re: Feel the thunder.........
Post by: Oggy Doggy on April 04, 2009, 12:02:27 pm

Is there anybody local that sells the Rickman Story by Dave Gittens? I looked it up and could only find the following.The Rickman Story by Dave Gittins costs £20 plus £2 p&p. It is available from the author at High Beeches, Huntercombe Lane South, Taplow, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 0PQ; tel/fax 01628 605858. Nothing came up on Ebay.

I also reckon that it's Ray Fisher outside Easty in the above shot. The numbers are wrong and too amateurish for somebody with such an eye for detail as Don Rickman. I believe the very Metisse Eastys riding in the photo will be on show at the Bonanza. He raced it in vintage motocross until he got too sick to race any more. It is one quick old bike. He was a nice old bloke who was still fast even when he had Parkinsons disease. Ray Fisher is equally a nice old guy and still has a couple of Metisses which I'm sure he'll have at the Bonanza.

Title: Re: Feel the thunder.........
Post by: VMX247 on April 04, 2009, 12:19:42 pm

http://www.pitstop.net.au/
these folk may have the Rickman book Oggy.  ;D
Alison

Title: Re: Feel the thunder.........
Post by: Oggy Doggy on April 04, 2009, 01:35:12 pm

No luck. Thanks anyway Alison. I'll find it eventually.

Title: Re: Feel the thunder.........
Post by: GD66 on April 04, 2009, 03:04:06 pm

Quote from: oldschool on April 03, 2009, 11:57:16 am

I reckon that is Don Rickman chasing Smith in the second shot. He normally use #74 so the meeting must be an International where they used FIM numbers rather than ACU. Smithy appears to be on the titanium Victor GP so it must be 1966.

Smith, Don Rickman and Vic Eastwood were the England team for the 1966 MX des Nations, so that would probably account for the number sequencing. They won it, by the way.... ;)

Title: Re: Feel the thunder.........
Post by: MX? on April 04, 2009, 07:23:41 pm

That shot I put up was..
#31 Jeff Smith, #29 Don Rickman at the British Grand Prix 1966... Farleigh Castle.
From the Motorcycle Museum, Hall of Fame site