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Best Race Suit Ever?


IainB

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As I'm a little bored at work and just seen the SGP Facebook post asking who had the best Race Suit this season... Got me thinking about the most memorable I've seen. Steve Bastable sticks out for me when he had black and white checks, I always think pure white is particularly striking and quite rare, I can only remember Eric Riss this season and Andreas Jonsson a few years back. Wiggy green with his splats, Jan Staechmann

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6 minutes ago, BWitcher said:

Bobby Ott wore white leathers as did Todd Wiltshire. Plenty more no doubt.

So they did, as did Sudden Sam for his title win... I do think the Kevlars are so much more brighter and striking though

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Joe Screen and his zebra suit was memorable and the suit he had with arm tassels... I also remember Doug Wyer having arm tassels and was it the whole Mildenhall team or just I seem to remember Ray Bales?

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6 minutes ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

This is the only pic I have of them, it doesn’t show the back,this was around when they started using other material, I have SF raceware a rough idea and he came up with these, many similar designs followed 

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How did wearing the Union Flag go down in Wales? :rolleyes:

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Ivan Mauger's green and white Exeter leathers took some beating.

The days of individual leathers where it was so much easier identifying the rider. Bert Harkins mentioned in his book that when team racing took off in the States fans found it difficult recognising their favourites after being used to watching them in their chosen race suits...and before anybody comments I am well aware why team suits were introduced although it's nothing new as various teams (Mildenhall, Leicester, King's Lynn, Oxford, Rye House, Swindon, Poole etc etc) did adopt team leathers way back during the sixties and seventies.

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5 hours ago, iainb said:

Joe Screen and his zebra suit was memorable and the suit he had with arm tassels... I also remember Doug Wyer having arm tassels and was it the whole Mildenhall team or just I seem to remember Ray Bales?

...they were a feature of the team leathers adopted by Mildenhall if I recall. Bob Kilby also had a set one season.

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11 minutes ago, steve roberts said:

 

The days of individual leathers where it was so much easier identifying the rider. Bert Harkins mentioned in his book that when team racing took off in the States fans found it difficult recognising their favourites after being used to watching them in their chosen race suits...

Is this down t American intelligence I wonder?After all in the UK speedway thrived for about 40 years when most had black leathers.Did the introduction of personal leathers mark the start of the downfall of the sport?We ended up having a group of individual riders,rather than a team.........

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2 minutes ago, iris123 said:

Is this down t American intelligence I wonder?After all in the UK speedway thrived for about 40 years when most had black leathers.Did the introduction of personal leathers mark the start of the downfall of the sport?We ended up having a group of individual riders,rather than a team.........

I was watching the 82 world final, they had right arm covers to match helmet  colours at the meeting. It was in the era when colours came off quite regularly.

I wonder what today's riders would do, organisers covering their sponsors logos, mass walkout 

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I was never a fan of predominantly white leathers, but I thought that the Gulf/Weslake leathers (mostly white, with orange and blue trim) used by a few (Gordon Kennett and Steve Weatherley etc) looked cool!

Steve

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