4 min. snippet from Mountain Man 1976 Toowoomba

[DR]

mainly the support class shown here but the whole deal ( or at least what I have) from '76 and '77 will be online soon...ish...God willing! I hate computers!

http://au.video.yahoo.com/watch/6385575/16559997

[sudman]

  Way cool Doc

[yzhilly]

Wow that was awesome Doc track looks great ,How many riders in one race ?. Luv the Torana and the Sheila in Flares .

[DR]

yeah it's not bad quality on dvd either.. I converted the whole deal for posting online last nght but the moment I went to look at the decoded movie my computer spazzed blue screened and hasn't been able to boot up since :'( bloody thing!! has to be chinese!! will fix it asap..or at least someone will fix it asap

[mainline]

great video doc, thanks for making the effort to share it. Good choice of soundtrack too

[EML]

Careful what you say about the sheila in flares, I think I might know her.
Pity you can't read the numbers, but I reckon the bloke on the suzuki in front is Sam Kendall, not positive though.
Where did you get them, from your own archives? and any sidecar stuff at all?

[DR]

Holeshot was the generous bloke who gave me the DVD. It was a while back and I have no idea who took it. I may (if extremely lucky) to be to get the whole thing online tonight, but it's both years with no titles or any sort of giveaway as to who's doing the filming. No sound whatsoever but that 'may' have been lost if someone messed up the audio conversion from film to DVD so the original may have sound no sidehacks sorry EML.

[Hoony]

is the echo valley track still there  and if so is it still used?

[monaro308]

Thumbs up from me doc.....that was great....damn i was only 11 then!
Hey Doc,is there a way of getting that footage buying or d/loading it?

cheers...mario

[JohnnyO]

Hoony Echo Valley is still there, it's the Toowoomba round of the current MX Nationals. Track has changed a bit but many of the old sections are still used today.

[Hoony]

Thanks Johnny,

being a mexican i never had the chance to ride it, but i did walk sections of it back in the early 80's.

[JohnnyO]

Awesome track.. one of the best in Oz in my opinion.

For the Queenslanders on here, the #030 Maico at the start is current MA steward and vintage racer Kev Mortimer back in the day.

[holeshot buddy]

if someone wants a copy of the whole dvd i could do it for them
limited numbers of course
which means only if i like you
and if i have time :'(

[JohnnyO]

if someone wants a copy of the whole dvd i could do it for them
limited numbers of course
which means only if i like you
and if i have time :'(

In other words.. 'No Chance'

[EML]

JohnnyO how the hell did you see Kevs no. I couldn;t see anything at all of the numbers, but yes 030 is big Kev. That might mean that the guy on the Suzuki might be Stewy MacLaughlin.
It's also likely that Bryan Fleming is in the mix.
The guy on the Yammy with fork accumulators is also a Redcliffe boy whos name escapes me, but I remember his brother was/is a cop in Brissy. I'll think of it shortly.
And the sound you can't hear is Bob Johnston on the mic.