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pic 41 looks like Jessup is it Simmo in white in pic 43? picture 47... possibly Bo Petersen (he looks tall) in front of John Davis 48 is Doug Wyer (going by the tassles on the leathers) 49 looks like a Leicester rider going by the jersey (red with yellow stripes) 51 is Puff Daddy

i used to recognise riders by the leathers and they looked like PC's....never mind... and i was there too!!! should have guessed really as PC only scored about 4 or 5 points...

er...and that would be...er... Ryan Sullivan. or is he too important to turn his own fuel on? think of Chris Louis sitting at the starting gate...he goes through his routine checking everything. maybe Sullivan should do that instead of spending half hour digging

oh are we supposed to guess the rider in the b&w pics???? pic 18...starostin, pc, jancarz, crump pic 19... carter, nielsen, sigalos, stancl by the way...if we want to get back onto a handlebars thread, something i said in a previous one about Egon Muller's bars is proved correct in picture 23. someone said he had the same handlebars as everyone but just turned them up further.... i said he had his own shape and were used on his longtrack bikes too... just check the picture

Lance King (y/B), Dennis Sigalos (white), Simon Wigg (blue) Morton or Davis (red) probably wrong though...

i was normally a 'win or crash' merchant

black & white pictures are much better don't you think..... it gives the pictures atmosphere

i took these pictures at Scheessel when Tatum won his first longtrack title. i was in the pits for most of the final and the practice so got some decent pictures of Tatum and Wigg mostly but also Simon Cross and Jem Doncaster. it was still a one-off meeting then. Wigg was runner-up after run-off with Tatum. some are taken in practice, and some in the final. http://community.webshots.com/user/the_womble

what a fantastic shot of King Kenny in the '81 World Final.... what a rider..

oi....just watch it sunshine...

Any idea what he is doing now? probably putting nothing but engine parts into his engine... GG was a good rider but sadly let himself down as many others tended to do round about the same time. and you're right HG...he was hard as nails

i hope so.....

i think the cameraman and producer liked her... and a couple of pretty girls in white tops.... can see their point though....

been out in my garage today going through some of my old programs... for Wimbledon 1974/75 all there was reference to was taping, not cine or anything... it was called 'Tape-a-Sport' and they were sold in the supporters club kiosk. so sorry, can't help you.

i wasn't disagreeing with LC possibly being past his best...just that Davy said he was 3rd in a world final when he was actually 2nd :roll:

hey Norbold.... on the subject of old riders.... do you know how long ago it was that dear old Lionel Crossley passed away? I used to chat to him a lot at Wimbledon and various tracks he was timekeeping at, and found him to be one of the nicest blokes i have ever met in the sport. Never heard anything about him after Wimbledon closed in '91 and didn't know he was gone until i saw it in the VSRA membership book.... i would have written to him had he still been around. Fantastic bloke (always pipe in mouth!)...much missed.

you're doing him down a bit Davy.... he was actually #2 in '82, and could have won it had the referee made the correct decisions...

Well an Ivan Mauger fan, yes, you should appreciate that alot of people liked to see Ivan beaten, and downed him all the time. Just seems like you are dropping into the same catagory as them. It seems weird to me why some people have got to be so anti-Tony. Go to Poole one day and watch the class of Tony and you will see a big difference between him and Ivan Mauger. already had this debate elsewhere...no-one will know who the greatest is or was... i've seen them both ride as i am older than 3.... both great in their own way. if only Ivan hadn't won his first world title aged 29, who knows....???? yes i used to watch Ivan race and listen to people booing him, but the funny thing was, he would come back to our house after, have a drink, and have a laugh at those people as he had probably gone out and beaten all those people's favourite riders.

Well I thought you had to be over 14 to be on this forum? You've just shown your correct age... 3. :roll: Well whoever you want to win the world championship, I'm sure Tony will be the first one to congratulate him. He has still many years to claim that 6th title and more. sorry to be showing my real age there... nothing to do with you possibly being a TR fan perhaps..? i don't give a stuff who wins... i'm not a fan of Crump or Pedersen...would have prefered Nicholls or Loram to win, but hey, they didn't. being a massive ivan mauger fan is the only reason i don't want TR to win... but then i suppose Mauger did win 3 longtrack world titles too....

YES YES YES YES YES.... rickardsson is out of it....WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO come on ANYONE but rickardsson..... with crump now leading it, it's down to him.... another mickey mouse track to come in norway so who knows.....

1 Crump 2 TR 3 Gollob 4 Nicholls i reckon NP will have a bit of a 'to do' with the fence ending his challenge tonight....

doubtful considering he would have been 5 or 6 years old..... :roll:

...unless they ask who won in 1963

love it when you have to backtrack..... by the way... at the TT you must have been looking at someone else....