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Poor Graham Miles! Where did/does Harry Huntly ride?

Harry rode for Newcastle (and Gosforth) right from the early days of the sport in this country.

A good rider, despite his massive height. Just under 7 foot in his boots and helmet !

 

While checking him out I read about a couple of match-races he had with Wally Lloyd at Birmingham. The crowd couldn't stop laughing as the riders shook hands before their first race, as 17-year-old Wally was only 5ft 3in ! Wally won 2-0 mind :wink:

 

Harry passed away in 1995 aged 88, soon after having his wish granted to sit on a modern bike. A Reading junior, Mick Hester, was kind enough to take one up to him at home.

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etc etc??? You mean he had more than ONE hit? :unsure:

 

And there's me thinking that his Greatest Hits album contained 14 versions of Wimoweh (the original, instrumental, re-mix, extended re-mix, backwards, etc)

 

His greatest hits were the ones he scored as Angus McKenzie the novice rider at Hyde Road! I only remember him having one hit song as Karl Denver the singer i.e. Wimoweh.

 

 

 

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The starting gate for the match race between Harry & Johnnie would look a bit odd. The tapes would have to go high so Harry could get under them but be low enough for Johnnie not to dodge underneath to get a roller. Harry probably used to take part in rolling starts for his races or was he a victim of the "Stamford Bridge" pushers being a visitor. I don't expect he was ever at Stamford though. If they needed a decider to the match race it could be staged at S B and Johnnie could always ride through between the legs of the footballers on the pitch today but poor old Harry could never try that one.

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Bengt Brannefors i think he rode for Coventry or Reading if memory serves.

 

Si.

 

Bengt rode for Newport and Wolves. His son Pierre rode for Reading, as well as King's Lynn.

 

http://wwosbackup.proboards.com/index.cgi?...=233&page=1

 

http://wwosbackup.proboards.com/index.cgi?...=425&page=1

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