Guest Posted November 22, 2016 Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 One for Sidney I guess. In the early 1970's didn't Briggo kit out a number of riders in his leathers? I'm sure the likes of Martin Ashby and Graeme Stapleton wore similar ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted November 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 One for Sidney I guess. In the early 1970's didn't Briggo kit out a number of riders in his leathers? I'm sure the likes of Martin Ashby and Graeme Stapleton wore similar ones. Also Scott Autrey, Dave Jessup and Phil Crump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 22, 2016 Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 Cool, thanks Steve. Glad I wasn't imagining it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gresham Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 Agree totally Tony! Much preferred the days of individual leathers and simpler iconic race jackets (that'll surprise a few on here!!) The days when it was so much simpler identifying riders such as the 'Polka Dot Kid' and 'Little Boy Blue' amongst many, many others. When I first attended speedway this was one of he main reasons for me going but of course we now live in a much more clinical world and individuality is replaced by uniformity. I never had an issue identifying the different teams and who was riding for whom back then. I've had this discussion on here before...and many argued that it easy to identify riders these days with team kevlars. Well for me...I couldn't disagree more. At a quick glance up I used to be able to identify riders straight away by their Individual leathers and more bold race jackets. Now, from a distance it isn't so easy, and for me, I have to look at the helmet colours to identify. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidney the robin Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 (edited) One for Sidney I guess. In the early 1970's didn't Briggo kit out a number of riders in his leathers? I'm sure the likes of Martin Ashby and Graeme Stapleton wore similar ones.Remember well those scabby old leathers can people remember Briggo wearing white leathers for a few meetings?i am sure he might of wore them when he was on a racing trip in the USA.?Also i loved the black leathers with gold stars down the side that Tommy Jansson wore he wore them against Martin Ashby in the golden Helmet. Edited November 25, 2016 by Sidney the robin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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