Flat track frames

[jimg1au]

LUKE GOUGH
here is his web page
http://www.flattrackstuff.com/lukegough/news.html

[Freakshow]

dont  know if luke is doing any where near as well as Kirk on the US circuit i cant see him in any results where as Mickael has got a few wins on the boards, having said that thou im sure that LUke beat Michael in either the FTX 500 or the 250CC  Aussie TRACK championships in 2007 so he must be a fair rider too, just not had the oppertunity to show it yet.

I would be interested to see how Michael goes if he moves up the class to the big twins

[firko]

Firko, haven't heard Chris Kelly's name for a while, he used to drop into my old work. I've heard stories of how he used to be able to lay his Astro down and then pick it up on his knee agian and keep on racing... would have liked to have seen that

Mick, Kelly was one of the best I've seen. He'd pitch it sideways 20 metres before the speedway bend at Nepean and then blitz through the corner so hard, the tyre literally smoked on the hard packed oiled surface. The only other bloke I saw do that on a chookie was Paul Caslick a few years later. He was king of the castle when I went overseas in '75 and gone forever by the time I got back home in '81. Does anybody know what happened to him? I think his Astros were set up by the same bloke who supplied those magnificent Pursangs to Ron Dinsdale back in the early days of vintage...Rob?

[Hoony]

I know he wasn't on a chookie but my favorite was always the "The Sultan of Slide" Chris Watson.

he has something like 22 Aussie titles in dirt track

[Rosco86]

Pretty certain Chris Kelly raced overseas in UK for a while before returning to Oz. Last time I spoke to him he was living back close to his original home in Williamstown and had a young bloke racing peewees at the old Fisherman's bend track, Ran foul of the authorities with some interseting mods to the peewee. Raced with Chris, Ron Dinsdale, Anton Ailers(may not be cirrect spelling), Grant Cramer. Andrew Bailey etc in the early years at Ray Owens Wallan when the Patterson Honda Mini bike rallies were all the go. Got old enough to race sub juniors and sold my SL70 race prepped by Cycle World in Parahan. Chris absolutely flew. In the early years he suffered poor results through poor machinary, His Uncle, an ex speedway car driver turned the spanners and while the ideas were fine the execution lacked the finese with the small motors.
Rosco

[Mick22]

his Astros were set up by the same bloke who supplied those magnificent Pursangs to Ron Dinsdale back in the early days of vintage...Rob?

Rob Watson ??

[firko]

That's him, Rob Watson. However I've since been told that I may be wrong with that assumption. Either way, the Pursangs that Rob supplied Ronny Dinsdale were veritable rocketships. For the first four years Ron was just about unbeaten in motocross on those bikes (and his own Elsinore). He retired from vintage at the '92 Nats, ironically the first vintage meet of Andy Caldecott. One unbeatable rider leaves the sport as another unbeatable starts.

Whoever it was that tuned Chris Kellys Astros, really knew their stuff. I can remember an occasion where he reeled in Chris Ellis on his super fast methanol Maico on the Nepean straight like he had another gear. The next race he did the same to Kevin Fraser riding Ron McKenzies highly tuned MK7 Pursang powered Hagon. In two starts he'd destroyed the two fastest 250s in NSW as if they were stockers. It's not as if Ellis and Fraser were shit riders either.