You are right for once Mr Fu all contributions greatly recieved

Pure genius

WWW? Those of you who raced in the 1970's would probably know him? :\

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ah...the culprit! Quite dissappointed, thought you wee a Russian Tzar, but instead, one of Mr Fu's mates

Not me, I was at primary school for most of that period !

Very nice picture of the "old bugger", Suzuki GB put some good riders in the saddle of their TR750 to protect Sheene's 2nd place in the MCN Superbike series.

Percy Tait became the fourth(an oldest) rider of the Suzuki GB team in 1976, despite he was 20 years older than the others.....today he is "ironically" the last "survivor".

regards

Karl

Yes Karl ,I bet you would have had vvvvvvvvery long odds on that 30 years ago !!! :\

I don't know , but it seems to have disappeared

WHY ???

When did Percy campaign a Rotweiller? I seem to recall it was around this time. He did a race in Dijon (´76, ´77 ??) on the rottie I think, or was it on the Suzuki? All I remember is it rained all day and Percy was in a great scrap for the lead with about 5 other riders. He had a "moment" on the penunltimate lap and finished 6th I think. Anyone else remember this race?

Hello Matey I thought it was a bit earlier on the Rotweiller 74/5 I reckon

All those years have sort of all merged into one these days. Oh well, what the hell. Were´s that whiskey bottle?

I guess the wife is still at her sisters then ?

Yip, till Sunday, hopefully.

Quote:It's now in a more suitable, nothing-at-all-to-do-with-motor-racing-or-its-history environment known as the Paddock Club.

Sod it, that means I'll have to keep posting complete b******s until I've got enough posts to be able to access the thread. Rats!

Such a shame too, it was turning into the best thread on the forum!!

Percy lives very near me in deepest Worcestershire. I didn't get to know him until about 30 years ago right at the end of his career, but we still meet up for a few beers every so often. People keep telling him he really should write a book before it's too late, but he's so modest he thinks no-one would want to read it. Some of the stories he comes out with are brilliant and probably not for publication anyway, at least not until the people involved have passed on to the great circuit in the sky!

What , and follow most other regulars ( myself including)

Hi,
I am new here, but saw your comment about Percy, next time you meet up ask him about the last lap, last corner at the One hour Production race, Anderstorp Sweden in, (I think) 1969 or 70) and who got the last laugh, but keep it to yourself!
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Maybe it has been posted, I looked but could not find it, you guys may be interested to take a look at the new Yamaha Classic Racing Team web site: www.yamaha-classic-racingteam.nl very clean site, good pics in the "multi-media" section, the old guys still "strutting their stuff", back to the days when men were men and women were glad of it.

I have many pics of International/GP racing from 66 - 74, if I ever fathom out how to post a pic I will put some up, and see who can put names to faces/bikes/locations

Yes please!! Set up a Photobucket or an imageshack account, put your pics into one or the other then copy and paste the image code into your post.

At Silverstone FIM 750 Championship in 1975, Percy had a TZ750, got a pic some where though not scanned in, I shall return shortly!!

Oh and welcome to you Bonzo!! look forward to your pictures.

Okay Bonzo, I'll ask next time I see him..and keep it to myself!

Hi Bonzo and welcome to the madhouse !

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Not great as its a scan of original photo, seemed like a good idea to have a matt finish back then! :\

No one know anything about this then!!?

I'm sure you're right!! no chance , guess not even today!

I hope my comment didn't come wrong to your ears! I hope that he lives on thirty years...or more

regards

Karl

Absolutely impressive his victory in the 1976 NW 200, with 47 years of age!!!

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Long shot : Robin Mortimer ? What about the state of the back shocks ?

I had this nice/interesting email from Julian Soper last week, he has said its OK if I shared it with you.

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I bought the TZ750 from Paul Smart. The story was that the bike had been built by Kel Caruthers for Warren Willing to race at Daytona in 1976. The frame number was WW1. One story I heard was that Willing expected to just turn up and race the bike, but Kel wanted paying!. Paul Smart heard this and bought the bike. The bike was quite special. As well as the frame, the engine was based on an OW31 factory unit. I didn't know the bike still existed.
I was invited down to Brands by Frank Perris, on the 24th April & 5th May 1976 after Dave Croxford gave up with the Norton. The first wednesday the mechanics wheeled the bike out of that space-age transporter they had. They fired the bike up, the engine stopped, and they put it back in the transporter. The engine had shed some teeth off the cam belt, causing the valves to tangle. Frank Perris apologised to me and asked me to return the next wednesday to try again. Barry Ditchburn was watching all this going on from the pit wall. Although I had hardly ever spoken to him, he said to me " what the f**k do you want to ride that pile of s**t for". I had no answer to that! Tony Smith eventually was chosen as the rider as he lived close to the factory.
A friend of mine told me about the AtlasF1 site and I saw your name attached to a lot of the photo's.
Recently, I have been in contact with some of my racing friends from the 70's. We have been burning CD's with our collection of photos from that period, and swapping with each other. I have attached a photo that I had never seen before until recently. It just seems to capture the 70's.
Regards,
Julian Soper

Not Robin, but good guess.
Its a guy called George Siergiejew, rode some Endurance stuff as well. :\

Hi PMBoy, yes Goeff smiling as ever, found his website so I will contact him next week!

Hi Graham yes it is George know him well had some good banter with him over the years his son by the name of Lee Masters (RIP) if anyone on the forum remembers the name was the 250 cc lap record holder at Oulton Park in the 90's Lee rode in the superteen series on an RGV Suzuki before jumping on a TZ Yamaha

Regards Mark

Yeah, I remember Lee, raced against him a few times, a real shock to find that he had been killed though.
When did this happen, was it racing?

Nigel

Thanks for that Mark, I too had no idea that Lee was no longer with us.
This one is of him in 1994 (I know its out of the time scale for this thread, but I feel its relevant & a good time to remember him)

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Julian Soper.......

happy days

Well chaps, I got lost trying to access the Paddock Club still not allowed on though don't know why ,perhaps my reputation has gone before me ,but as Groucho Marx said ' I would'nt want to be a member of any club that would accept me !!!'
So WWW has been high-jacked has it and gone all exclusive
Watch this space for a possible new thread

Have you asked the Pit Babe, nicely?

No I havn't Russ --didn't even know she was called 'nicely'
How do I do that

You say, oh Pit Babe please....... There's a little click on thing under the Paddock Club heading.

Ok, here we go. No1. Who, where & when

Gould, Duff, dont know, Nixon....1970, Ontario?

Oh, all on TD/R2 Yams, except the Yank who has Ceriani forks fiited to what could be a AIR Kawasaki ?

#25 DuHamel?

Hi to Bonzo
Ok is the other chappie Art (the dart ) Baumann ??

How did you get on Phil - are you in ? Did they tell you to wear your cravat when you post on there?

Obviously does'nt like me Russ , tryed sending a message --alas no answer as yet i'll try again in a bit

Tryed again ,still no luck :\ how do you know when you are in

Ah, there's a special electronic handshake....

????????? Enlighten me my honourable fiend

Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but whatever. I have just put the finishing touches to my latest DVD.
It's centered on the Motorcycle Centenary event at Brooklands last year. Perhaps some of you might have seen the item that Steve Parrish put together from the event on Moto GP on BBC2? The video runs for 80 minutes and features 55 minutes of footage from the Centenary, with three smaller items on bikes within the Museum Collection or that have significant connections to the Track. We finish up with a montage of stills from the Centenary, which was attended by some 6,000 people and over 250 racing bikes.
Here's a photo of the dvd box, front and back :


You can order from me for £15 plus £1.50 P&P, my e-mail is gary@yesterdaysracers.com.
As this is a fully endorsed Brooklands product, a portion of the profits will go to the Museum. It will be available from the Museum shop in about two weeks.