Hot Shoe Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 I seem to remember (many years ago) Ole Olsen turn up with his bike at Wimbledon in a Mini Van. Wasn't there a vogue (late 50s - early 60s) for riders to use American cars to transport them and their bikes to tracks? Later on the use of the Citroen Safari (front wheels out and loosen handlebars and in they go) made me wonder if anyone has any memories of riders forms of transport - The stranger the better of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 (edited) I remember Gary Middleton turning up at Leicester with his bike hanging off the back of a new Rolls Royce. Edited March 16, 2005 by Liontamer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hullangel Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Once stopped to pick Robbie Gardner up after his car broke down on M62...That night he arrived at Ellesmere Port in a removals lorry............ Also seem to remember Ken Le Breton.....THE WHITE GHOST....taking his bike in the sidecar of a motorbike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hullangel Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Very impresive LT. But whats a BOKE ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Very impresive LT. But whats a BOKE ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No idea mate, where did you get that from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Lady Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 I remember one Bank Holiday charging up the A10 to London and passing both Terry Betts and David Crane who had near identical White Ford Consuls(?) with British Racing Green stripes, both had their bikes on the back. Eddie Reeves was often see in an American Thunderbird with his bike thrown in the boot I followed him out of Hackney one night, when he braked it was like Blackpool ruddy illuminations! He aslo once came to Lynn in his then wifes MGB sports car with his bike tied on the top of the boot with string Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jez Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Funneist choice of transport I've seen was what Sean Wilson turned up to Bradford in a few years before they closed. Relient Robin with a trailer attached which was pure genius, but to top it off there was a blow up doll in the passenger seat, you had to see it to believe it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topcat Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Very impresive LT. But whats a BOKE ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No idea mate, where did you get that from? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Seems like it's enough to make you BOAK!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whowasthatberntpersson Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 In the late seventies Finn Thomson turned up at Cradley in a very small European mini van, I have no idea what it was but he had all his gear squashed in the back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 I've got a funny story about a Reliant Robin van & a rider in the Coventry riders car park, but as it involves a naked woman I can't repeat it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 I have just been reading how Vic Huxley once actually rode his speedway bike from Charing Cross to Euston to get the train to Manchester as his van and trailer had broken down! Can that be true??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julie Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Can't remember where it was, perhaps Oxford, but Roman Matousek turned up with his bike attached (barely, held on with some dodgy rope) to the back of an even dodgier looking Lada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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