Leathers

[briggo]

From my time reguarly attending speedway (Blunsdon 1971 to 1977), I have to say I thought Ole Olsen's leathers were pretty cool, as were the late great Tommy Jansson. Always had a soft spot for Briggo's, but absolutely hated Ray Wilson's, the Bostik episode, what was all that about.....horrible.

 

Always respected Nigel Boocock in his consistent blue and Broady in his red, but was never sure of Brian Leonard in his whites.....shocking.

 

What were your likes and dislikes and why?

 

Whilst I'm on this thread, who first started the trend of wearing the colourful "winged" boots that everyone wore in the 70's......design classic in my opinion.

 

Over to you

 

Briggo

[T.N.T.]

DOUG WYRE

With his tassles flying, he was always a sight that you remembered.

 

ADAM SHIELDS

Came over from Australia looking for a team spot and needed to get noticed. So he invests in a new set of Kevlars which were the design of the SPIDERMAN outfit. It worked aswell.

 

IVAN MAUGER

Thos White with Green trim and lettering

[stevehone]

IVAN MAUGER

Thos White with Green trim and lettering

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would it be his Exeter leathers?

[Brian L]

Barry Thomas' red Iwade leathers were the best- very distinct, Keith White had a yellow set that had other colours twisting through and Steve Lomas was unmissable in his bright green leathers.

There were a lot of dull dark leathers in the mid sixties, in the seventies they became more colourful and then in the eighties the advertising on them became more and more prominent.

It was so easy to recognise the riders in those days wasn't it? With the matching modern kevlars I have trouble working out who's who!

[spin king]

Did Cowboy John Cook have some skeleton leathers, I am sure that I seem to remember him waering some.

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Did Cowboy John Cook have some skeleton leathers, I am sure that I seem to remember him waering some.

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There is a sidecar team who has some of those!!

[BertHoven]

Chris Pusey's polka-dot leathers certainly gave a splash of colour in an era when most men wore black.

 

Nigel Boocock wore blue, Ken le Breton wore white leathers, white boots and had an entirely white machine, predictably he was known as The White Ghost. Arthur Forrest of Bradford rode in black leathers but they were always highly polished.

 

Surely, the pioneer of coloured leathers though was the great Belle Vue and England rider Frank Varey who wore bright red leathers. Because of this and his no nonsense, all-out riding style he was known in the various countries as The Red Devil!

 

Great riders and great showmen - all sadly missed today.

[captain]

Chris Pusey's polka-dot leathers certainly gave a splash of colour in an era when most men wore black.

 

Nigel Boocock wore blue, Ken le Breton wore white leathers, white boots and had an entirely white machine, predictably he was known as The White Ghost.  Arthur Forrest of Bradford rode in black leathers but they were always highly polished.

 

Surely, the pioneer of coloured leathers though was the great Belle Vue and England rider Frank Varey who wore bright red leathers.  Because of this and his no nonsense, all-out riding style he was known in the various countries as The Red Devil!

 

Great riders and great showmen - all sadly missed today.

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[Gemini]

Great riders and great showmen - all sadly missed today.

And not forgetting Simon Wigg with his very distictive lime green leathers.

[BertHoven]

And not forgetting Simon Wigg with his very distictive lime green leathers.

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I didn't forget them. I left them off my post to avoid a rainbow effect, Gemini!

[iris123]

Quite liked the "team" leathers.The Briggo boys in the 70's then a few teams in the mid 80's had them,Hackney,Mildenhall,Rye House for example.Also thought Martin Goodwin in his red/white checks stood out.Think PC in the 70's had some colourful ones

[stevehone]

Quite liked the "team" leathers.The Briggo boys in the 70's then a few teams in the mid 80's had them,Hackney,Mildenhall,Rye House for example.

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and Canterbury

[shazzybird]

Quite liked the "team" leathers.The Briggo boys in the 70's then a few teams in the mid 80's had them,Hackney,Mildenhall,Rye House for example.

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Rye house had "Infradex" Leathers in the 70's also had matching trailers and covers for the bikes

 

In '87 Canterbury had matching Leathers well Dave, Carl, Richard, Paul W and Mike did Robert and Paul matched each other though so does that count

[salty]

Bert Harkins always had very distinctive leathers in the early 70's.

as far as team leathers go I liked the late 60's Leicester Lions, much better than the 1972 Cradley dark brown!!!

Always used to like Jan Andersson's Halvarsson leathers of the early 80's.

[iris123]

and Canterbury

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I was mentioning the ones i liked

[madbiker]

You may not have liked Willy`s Bostick leathers but he was one of, if not THE first riders to have sponsorship on his leathers a true pioneer in that field, he also had a great set in red with a black and white chequred pattern they good too, the worst ? did`nt Rick Miller have some Pufta pink ones at some time ?

[T.N.T.]

You may not have liked Willy`s Bostick leathers but he was one of, if not THE first riders to have sponsorship on his leathers a true pioneer in that field, he also had a great set in red with a black and white chequred pattern they good too, the worst ? did`nt Rick Miller have some Pufta pink ones at some time ?

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That was Jamie Habbin

[Topcat]

That was Jamie Habbin

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" The Pink Panther"

[frigbo]

Rick Miller's pink ones were before Habbin's. They were a very girly powder pink....Nice!!

[krissie]

as a favour for Liontamer the attached picture is of himself wearing quote.....

 

"Ray Wilson's red with black & white cheques pair. Well they are the very same pair I'm wearing in the attached picture."