Cheap Greeves pre65

[cyclegod]

http://www.vintagemx.us/cgi-bin/largephoto.cgi?C=JXm92ab2Cj58FdfV

[VMX247]

very nice ..all nice 
needs a Roger Ram Jet sticker on it though 


Same same 
http://ozvmx.com/community/index.php?topic=9490.15

[firko]

needs a Roger Ram Jet sticker on it though

Alison, Alison, Alison.....The Klub Kevlar Roger Ramjet collector edition stickers are meant for American Eagles /Sprite/Alron bikes....."Roger Ramjet and the American Eagles". Well, we thought it was funny at the time . Seems the irony didn't quite hit a bullseye with some. To fit one on a Greeves would be an insult to all Ramjet fans.

By the way, did you get my package mate?

[VMX247]

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By the way, did you get my package mate?

WOW WHAT A BONZA SHOT       ..you little beauty...
People are going to ask questions when they see that poster getting anointed with black pen     
cheers A

[firko]

Yeah Alison, it's one of the few truly iconic motocross photos. It's of Bryan Wade in the 1970 Inter-Am aboard a Greeves (which fits in with the thread subject). Wade was the first of the riders to get big air and do cross ups.

[VMX247]

Spoke with Bryan Wade today 
Story one- on the above poster...Four fans followed Bryan around during the old days racing from town to town-country to country with helmets and colored jerseys too match.BIG FANS 
They tracked Bryan down, due to one of the four mates passing away and wanting a poster for the memorial.At this time Bryan didn't know of the posters existence.

Story two- on above poster
The lady in the red shirt with camera, was traveling with Bryan at the time and he has only the front shot of this above photo.. 
cheers
ps:job done Firko 
Alison

[firko]

Thanks Alison. I wish I could have been there to meet Bryan myself as he's one of my all time favourite riders. He was getting big time air back in the days when the theory was to get as little air as possible...."There's no traction with your wheels off the ground". He was one of the first entertainers who made a lot of fans in those Inter-Am appearances and GPs but many fans today have never heard of him. He seemed to drop from sight around 1971-2 and wasn't seen again on the circuit. Did Bryan explain why he disappeared from the motocross scene so abruptly Alison?

Back in the seventies when I was living in the USA I had a framed copy of that poster in my sun room which, if I left my blinds open could be seen from the street by passing foot traffic. One day I came home to find we'd been broken into. The only thing missing was my new el cheapo Mexican leather jacket, my wifes counterfeit Omega watch (which didn't go) and that cool Bryan Wade poster. Proving the thieves were motocross fans and not too sharp they left behind a high end Marantz sound system, a new television and the keys to Kathy's Porsche 916 which was parked in the driveway which were sitting on the kitchen counter so it would have been a piece of piss to take it. It seems the whole object of the break in was that Bryan Wade poster.
 I wish I would have remembered to tell you that yarn....he probably would have got a kick out of it.

[VMX247]

Time was short as usual at these events and the pit/camp ground large,trying to track riders down to sign or talk was time consuming and the committee would not let me have sunday arvo off    .
When I did catch up with Bryan he was a real genuine nice guy,full of life and smiles. Bryan's speech at the dinner on Saturday night was mostly about his Borneo Bike Tours tailored made for YOU. .though in this pic below he is praying to the lord above, that he never has to ride a Greeve's again   

[VMX247]

I'd say he looks like a Husky man now- Greeves are hard work      
T Cavell waving back at B Cavell taking the photo

cheers Alison

[firko]

Jeez that bloody Col Metcher pops up everywhere. I reckon he would have been sitting in the front seat of the Lincoln when Kennedy was assassinated and on the steps of Parliament House with Gough Whitlam in November '75. Surely someone has a photo of him sipping an espresso with George Clooney at Cafe Adorama on the shores of Lake Como?

[T250K]

 It's a family in-joke . . . . . " Who's the little Bloke in the white robe and skull cap, standing on the Vatican Balcony next to Col Metcher from Queensland ? "   

[SAABCOMBI]

l would like names against these people, to know who we are talking about.

[GD66]

Back row : Rob Wicks, Sandy Wicks, Bryan Wade, Vic Allan, Colin Metcher, Tony Cavell.
Front row : Peter Ploen, Evan Pretorius, Dave Bevan, and Jim Allan.
The butt belongs to a photographer.

[SAABCOMBI]

Thank You.

[clutchslip]

The Griffon is defo the pick of the bunch there at that price, a hugely underrated bike, although not perhaps with the banana fork front end unless you wanted it as a desert hack again; easy switch to Cerianis though. The TES looks like a later model (Mk2?) as it has the 37A villiers cases - AFAIK the first model shared the same frame as the scrambler (61->), but this one has a more trials specific setup; its a nice bike but expensive. The Cotton is the rarest of the three, and interestingly looks to have a full Alpha bottom end - an odd setup considering it hasnt got a Marcelle or other alloy barrel on it; sound basis there for a real gem.