Bud Ekins - the great escape jumper dead ?

[crash n bern]

Just as a note of useless trivia.  I was watching a documentary on Jerry Weintraub a well known producer.  He's in his '70's married with kids and has a younger live in mistress.   The younger woman in question, mentioned that her father was Bud Ekins.

[OverTheHill]

In reply to firko re  tim gibbes @ cd8. Worked for tim for 20 odd years & i'm still never sure if he's serious or not haha. When the movie first came out we had to set up a display [6 day ajs by memory] at the local theatre, even then when tim was asked the question i think his standard answer was [i really can't say]. He'd be having a laugh [i think] with knocking you back. Wifey & i still help him regularly with his [busy] transponder lap timing set up at our local manfeild road race track. Cheers Morley. [NZ]. ps, i see you've had a stay in hospital, hope things are coming right & all the best from down here. Was looking yesterday at your RT1mx Metisse i think it was--gosh, beautiful.

[OverTheHill]

sorry firko, was that a cheney rt1 not metisse!! without looking for it.

[firko]

Thanks for the kind words on my health and the Cheney RT1 Morley. It's (and me )currently reaching the end of a bit of a rebuild. Even though the bike was pretty nice to look at, it lacked a few finer points to make it a properly competitive pre 70 racer. I've now fitted YSS PD valves to the Ceriani's and done some porting and head work,fitted a new 36mm Mikuni and PVL to the engine. I'm pretty sure it'll be more than competitive now.