Suzuki 250 road racer help

[Mick D]

The lanky one in the Lewis Leathers is Billy Mack, the other handsome dude is curly Norm, my dad.
It took a while but I got there.
Bathurst, late 60's, but it's the same year Billy won the production race on Dad's 500 Cobra.
This bike was Rocketship fast, in its day, just couldn't stop it.
I'd love to know where it ended up???

So good to look at that picture.

[Curly3]

Mick, I can still smell the Fibreglass from dad trying to repair that fairing in the shed at home.

[GD66]

Good stuff. Looks like the LH pipe may have already vibrated the stinger off... love that early 70s era, hard men at work...

[Curly3]

Zero stingers back then GD and there was no one harder than Bill.
That photo was taken either the day before or the day after he slashed his hand open on a barbed wire fence in the wee hours escaping from the boy's in blue.
The injury was bad enough to stop him riding on the Sunday at the Orange Short Circuit meeting.

[GD66]

Zero stingers back then GD and there was no one harder than Bill.

Not so sure, on closer inspection it does appear there's a rather small-diameter stinger on the pipe, with the shadow of the footrest making it appear separated. Front brake looks like a 9" Fontana. He has a pre-race glare worthy of a Hinton...

[Curly3]

Apologies GD, I'm showing my 2 Stroke ingnorance.
Now I recall what Stinger meant and yeah they were long and small in dia.

[cheapracer]

Great photo SlideRulz and happy for your great memories.