sandman Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 Anyone have any good Kelly stories? This thread is not meant to be a put down to the great little man, so negative ones are off limits OK? Could be on track or off. Mine which I heard thru good sources. Kelly was in a pub after a meeting and got into an argument with a Rugby player as to who was the best Jockey ever. Of course, the Rugby player being British said Lester Piggott. Kelly would answer Willie Shoemaker! This went on for some time, until the big fella has finally had enough, picks Kelly up to eye level and head butts him. After this was done, the big fella puts Kelly down. Kelly looks him in the eye, once again says Willie Shoemaker, goes and sits down to finish his drink. Tough, all 5'2 of him. One of the all time greatest talents! 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehone Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 Kelly was in a pub after a meeting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lupus Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 The best Kelly Moran (and Shawn) story I ever heard was where they 'befriended' Roman Matousek, buying him drinks, loaning him bits for his bikes etc which meant that Roman avoided giving them the same 'treatment' that he often dished out to other riders. This story always made me laugh - mainly because it was so typical of the Morans and their personalities!!! What a great pair of guys they were - and I'm sure still ARE!!! Shame they're not still involved in some way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandman Posted October 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 Yer right Lupus. Never seen anyone show up with dirty bikes and "Leathers" and do so well as those two. What about the wheelies Kelly did half way around the turns while waving his right leg to everyone in the pits? God only knows what those two would have done had they taken it all serious! Kelly,... Peter Craven reincarnated? Just maybe..... PS What was the name of the club at Eastbourne? Legend stuff! :-o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wes lake Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 Think the club was called Deansland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazzybird Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 Excellent place Deanland went there after the meetings whenever I went to Eastbourne. Somewhere at my Dads' house I still have all the stuff from Kellys' fan club which my Nan enrolled me in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevH Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 Excellent place Deanland went there after the meetings whenever I went to Eastbourne. Somewhere at my Dads' house I still have all the stuff from Kellys' fan club which my Nan enrolled me in So just how long HAVE you been a bloody Eastbourne fan? :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lioness Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 I think she's been having you on all along Kev.....she's not really a Canterbury fan :twisted: Shazzy, you've been outed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazzybird Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 oh no I was part of the "Eastbourne ..... who are they??" gang... of course whenever Canterbury rode at Eastbourne I went along and in the latter years when I was old enough to drink I then went onto Deanland afterwards Have I convinced you yet Only three teams ever featured in my life back then Hackney (Friday) Canterbury (Saturday) and Rye House (Sunday) what a weekend that used to be! Nowadays it's whatever team Mark Loram rides for and if that happens to be Eastbourne then I apologise now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevH Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 I think she's been having you on all along Kev.....she's not really a Canterbury fan :twisted: Shazzy, you've been outed! That I could live with Lioness............ but Eastbourne. :twisted: Have I convinced you yet Not for one minute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fredwinky Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 THE JELLY MAN IS ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PEOPLE IVE EVER MET. HE STAYED HERE LAST SUMMER IN THE BINGHAMTON NEW YORK AREA AND THE LITTLE GUY IS A TRIP TO TAKE TO A BAR. THE MAN HAS NO FEAR OF ANYTHING. SEING HIM JUST JUMP ON SOMEONES BIKE AT A WEEKEND RACE AND DEMOLISH OUR LEADING D-1 RIDERS WAS DEF AN AWSOME SIGHT. CANT WAIT TILL HE COMES BACK IN A FEW MONTHS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maddriver Posted January 4, 2004 Report Share Posted January 4, 2004 I have a interesting pic of Kelly, it was taken in 1981 by a guy who i used to chat to at meetings, he was a budding photographer and Bammy let him in the pits to take pics,Eastbourne came to Hyde Rd and Kelly was the worst for ware and the ref refused to let him ride,must just have been booze tho cos he rode the next day at Eastbourne against us.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackman Posted January 5, 2004 Report Share Posted January 5, 2004 (edited) What about the wheelies Kelly did half way around the turns while waving his right leg to everyone in the pits? God only knows what those two would have done had they taken it all serious! Wheelies you say! When Kelly was riding for Birmingham, they were invited into the proccession, (I can't remember what it was for but it was in the main centre of Birmingham) half way into the proccession of floats and marching bands etc, Kelly is sat on the bike on a trailer waving to the crowd, being towed by a nice new Citreon CX sedan. He then starts shouting for us to stop, he untied his bike, unloaded it, pulled it back on compression, started running and jumped on it, then done wheelies for the next 10 minutes. That was something the proccession wasn't ready for nor the organisers. The more the people waved and clapped, the more he put a show on. The Citreon sedan was one of his sponsors. I was told by the promoters, Dan and Jeff, that he is not to drive in the British Isles or in Europe at any time as he has no licence, it's not his car and I'm responsible! That was OK for the first couple of meetings until we drove to Poole and I'd had enough of his nagging. I pulled over on the motorway and we swapped over. We took off like we'd just come out of gate 1 and in no time we'd arrived at the speed limit NOT! After 1/2 hour he needed to pull into the services which entailed having to stop at a roundabout behind the cars already there. After using one of the said cars as brakes, and a couple of hundred quids damage, he looked at me and said " God damn, where's the bonnet on these mothers, I can't see it". I said it's under that cars back axle! as we were swapping seats at a rapid pace hoping the 10 or so people who had witnessed the acident, didn't see us swapping. Not that it mattered as half of them knew him anyway and as there was no damage to the Volvo's towbar, Kelly got away with it. Guess who learnt how to panel beat and spray paint over night. All's well that end's well. Regards PS. Cars and Kelly aren't a good mix! Edited January 5, 2004 by Trackman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackman Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 Jellyman was out with a friend one night, he rang to say they had broke down, when I got there it was a broken throttle cable we were in trainers took out the laces and tied them together, one end on the throttle arm of the carby, left the bonnet popped! the other end in his RIGHT hand Never a dull moment! Regards. PS. Any one see him in his first UK appearence & could TR put KM with Sir KT @ Arena? Now that would be a pairing to see!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMcCaffery Posted July 5, 2004 Report Share Posted July 5, 2004 I once walked into Deanland with a Moran either side of me. For the first and only time in my life all female eyes were turned in my direction. I mentioned to Shawn "Hey you're in here". His response "Hey man, I want better than that..." I also was marginally involved in Shawn's record deal - on the publicity side. I'm sure I still have some remarkably unsold records about. As for Kelly well everything said is true. A remarkable character but has paid rather a heavy price for the years of excess. I remember being out in Sweden for a world championship round where the jellyman was solemnly announced as Kelly Moron all night ;-) I t h i n k it was an error. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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