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Clubroom => Foto Forum => Topic started by: DJRacing on October 24, 2007, 06:45:47 pm
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Who is this and where?? I have this pic and I know nothing about it. Can anyone name the rider and where they are?
I am pretty sure the bike is a YZ250H
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f65/djracingyz/1980YZ125G011.jpg)
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I think you mean YZ250J ::)
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Me thinks it's a 125j as there is no header pipe to be seen, can't help you other wise.
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Haha your so right YZ250H ;D its a J '82 model yep I did mean that. I should check my spelling before I post ::) ;D ;D
But who is it and where??
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Its Ok mate we all know the H is next to the J on the keyboard :P :P
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Before we get hung up on the bike.... it is a YZ250J -1982 model but I know nothing else about the picture.
Are those gum trees in the back ground or is this in England or what?
I swear the bottom edge of the beer can must have hit the H key ;D ;D
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Track looks familiar to me. it could be a Gippsland Victoria track (Maybe Ottrim near Korummburra) by the look of that sandy loamy soil, my next guess would be Briant Park, Smithton Tasmania (except the corner /spectator fence don't align to my memory).
as for rider and the era he would be a A grader with #27 on the plates, thats as good as i can go. he looks tall in the bike?
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the flaggy is bored shitless so it must be a club race ;)
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I also thought Smithton but the track doesn't work out with what "used" to be there - so not much help but probably one it isn't!
Rossco
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I can put all your minds to rest.
It is Colac in Victoria in 1982 and the rider is Trevor Brooks who later got into supercross track design I think.
The bike is definitely YZ250J. Green number plate, and it was during a round of the 'Western Centre' series. Tex would remember.
I know all this cos I took the shot................ ;D
btw Where did you find this photo DJR?
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ahh, Brooksy the Ballarat Rovers M.C.C. Member. must have been his last year on 250's i think he rode big bores from then on?
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Spot on, Hoony!
And here he is later that year at Casterton on a 490.
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-8/1063360/TBrooksCasterton82.jpg)
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I got given a couple of tests/shootouts on the 1980 125's and that pic came with the file. So I had no idea who or where it was, but it looked a bit Ozzie to me so I thought..... Post it in here and see what happens. I hope you guys enjoyed sorting it out. ;D
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Sure did! ;D
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Luv the 250J i better get back in the shed ,cant fix mine while i'm on the timewaster
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i like the safety tyre wall ............... hehehe look out !
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Go back a page, for all is revealed. ;D
It's Trevor Brooks at Colac.
And below is Trevor Brooks at Casterton.
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Hey tony do you have any photo's of peter christian or clive tucker or peter gazzard at casterton ??? ???
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Definitely have one or 2 of Peter Christian but I think it's at Colac. I'll have a look later today.
Would definitely have pics of Clyde Tucker but again not at Casterton. btw He's a KTM dealer at Mt. Barker these days. And nothing of Peter Gazzard I'm afraid. I reckon he wasn't doing much by the time I started taking pics.
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Tex would remember.
Er, maybe he won't. (Tex was pretty young in '82) ::)
I'm very interested in the second photo though. It was taken at Cooper Park, right? (If not, then where?) Cooper Park has been closed for years. Do you have many other photos from Casterton?
Tex
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Yeah, Cooper Park. I'd forgotten that name............ :D
I've got a few more, all from '82.
I also remember the sidecars not being able to get up the hill one year because it was so wet and slippery, plus that huge whoop that would develop at the bottom of the hill going onto the back straight.
memories............. ;D
I'll have a look for some more photos from Casterton.