Hallelujah - finally managed to track down Graham Sully last night! (Mitch's fellow Alron-sponsored rider in enduros) Very useful contact & more of the picture.
Have been laid low by whooping cough for months, but have also spoken to RL a few times. The number he volunteered (before I asked or disclosed any of my info) for how many produced is lower than previously claimed anywhere. Still seems to like pork pie ("I had 3 retail shops & over 50 staff" at some stage) but some of what he says is true.
Its a laborious task tho cross-checking everything against what other insiders say. Umpteen STD/mobile calls later... If anything cannot be verified by others it gets discarded. Feel like a detective on a case sometimes. In fact RL said "you should have been a cop" when he heard who we've tracked down. So far we've talked to 8 insiders from the early years & another 6 who were a bit later - the tail end of the Alron years (the bike years, not the business years)
Have also spoken w RL's mechanic thro the Alron years. Top guy - Invaluable contact. I do believe we are getting very close to the real facts. He's shed more light on the numbers produced, the rego'd bikes & on the so-called Rickman 250 Enduro that they "sold about 30 of"
Have also tracked what was left-over at the end. No, it wasn't dumped. Much of what was reported about the lefto-vers in VMX earlier (#7) is actually pretty close to the truth
There's even an interesting story of one of our real icons of MX trying a 400 Alron (before he was an icon)
