Actually that's off an early drum braked 500 H1 I've been doing a bit too as well. You can just see my pint of orange squash as well.

Sorry for letting you just hang there guys. But just after I had posted the pic of the Suzuki rider, the wife told me we were off to the sisters place for the weekend. "Can´t you go alone?" I asked, and immediately wished I hadn´t.
Oh well, we arrived home half an hour ago, and I can now disclose that the rider in the pic is not Les Van Breda. Although Les won several, four I think, SA titles for Suzuki, all in the unlimited class, Gillie Cruse was the first star Suzuki sponsored, and he won them the 50cc championship with Les second. He then followed that up with two 350 titles aboard a 251cc twin, and added an unlimited title aboard the TR 500 air cooled twin he is riding in the pic I posted. He then moved to Honda and campaigned a 750 Daytona, but without the success he had enjoyed with Suzuki. Les took over the top spot at Suzuki and carried on where Gillie had left off.
So the anwer is Gillie Cruse.

Gillie Cruse won his first South African title in 1968 and his second the following year. He received Springbok colours in 1968.

Marius, I stand corrected. I thought Gillie won two 350 titles, but it was indeed only one, as well as the unlimited championship a year later. The 50cc title wasn´t an official one at the time I don´t think, so you are spot on.
Thanks for setting the record straight.

Who are they, when and where? I have a few ideas, but I think you guys will know better than I do - but I realise that it isn’t a 500 race:

Salzburgring '74, 350 cc class

#1 obvious
#26 Herron ?
#11 Kneubühler
behind him Korhonen
#22 John Williams

Balde in the foreground

#28 Boet Van Dulman
I think #26 is Tapio Virtanen (spelling?)
#30 Poss Max Weiner?
Agree with the others Renn.;)

Salzburgring 1975

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didn't put down the facts when I received the pic some decades ago and memory is fading, so I wonder about the 3 riders in the front...

#19 reminds me of Cliff Carr? Tony Rutter there too.

Assen 1970?

Tony Rutter is for sure, the last one is also quite easy, Assen "de strubben" (spelling ?), '70 is more likely than '69, I agree...

Yessss TT Assen 250cc 1970, "de Strubben" :

22. Bo Granath - 10. Heinrich Rosenbusch - 21. Laszlo Szabo

My word Buster , you're like a bus , none for a while then loads everywhere
I reckon Grassetti ?? Cannot spell first name --probably cannot spell surname either

Thanks, Graham and Ton

Rubbishy little instamatic shot......


Paul M

well PAul , at least he hasnt got those cuban heels he had on for Stavros's wedding great evocotive shot though !

SYLVIO

Silvio

Video from the 1977 St. Joris International..........Stu # 7 ...........finished 2nd overall.............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=NL&hl=nl&v=87Ps-9Rchoo

Wo hoo, full grids and close racing, just like MotoGP,

How could Stu finish second overall if he only was placed in the "tweede manche" ?....Oh wait, there's this gentleman A.Stuart who was third in the first leg, the same one who raced for Britain at the '76 French Grand Prix

In these results from the 1976 French GP it seems he is from Nowhereland.

That was great! thanks for that.

And there is more, races from the Nederlandse Motorsport Bond by Harrie van der Kruijs:

Video's....Link

Website.....Link

I think for a while I was 5th equal with myself.....Avant in 5th and Stewart in 5th..cant complain and thanks for the St joris utube, I cant even recall the track!!!

You must have had your eyes shut tight Stu, because it was as dangerous as hell. Took big gonads to even ride there I reckon, let alone finish on the rostrum in that sort of company. Respect.

Here's the practice sheet with mister Stewart, duly corrected by myself live at the trackside....although I'm wondering how I could have heard of this Mr Avant before that race in early 76 ???

Good memories, 20 yrs old with possibily the best tech of all time ( Mike Sinclair) in my corner. Mind you i was still trying to work out why it was winter in France when it was summer in NZ...we were a tad naive and at the time a bit lonely. thank heavens for the good guys on the circuit, Pat and Chip Heneen, Jack findlay and his lady, Mortimer, Dodds, Penti and so on. I was so lucky to have that opportunity and if not for this forum you would never think about it all. St Joris, for me anyway, was just about Ray Quincey breaking his back ( my year or not?) and not a lot else..thanks guys

Ray's crash was in 1978 from memory, Stu. Poor bugger, he seemed about to really settle down and get it all together.

Hi fellas I have been lucky enough to get hold of the film Continental Circus and agree with you all that its fantastic . Any of you still without your own copy , if you PM me I may be able to help .
Just another thing whilst I'm here , I recall several of you having problems with not being able to scan your slides to post on here and came across this the other day and wondered if it might solve the problem ?http://aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/58_9232.htm

Right, Sint Joris ten Distel 1978 250cc race, it was raining so strong that water flowed like a river over the circuit.

If I remember correctly, the last race held in St Joris ten Distel was in 1980, or, it could have been `81 (I really should know, as I was there ), and it also bucketed down that day as well.
The meeting is remembered for what happened after the racing was finished, rather than the races themselves. The riders were told their money would be posted to them, and, as many were relying on their start money to get home, all hell broke loose. I think it was Wil Hartog who was called in to pacify the riders, who, after being assured the money would be forthcoming, decided not to burn the place down. I spoke to several riders the following year and none of them ever received a cent evidently.
I think that last meeting also resulted in the death of several people, one or two sidecar teams, if I recall correctly. Can anyone expand on that?

http://motorsportmemorial.org/query.php?db...ircuit_a&n=2225

Thanks for that Rennmax. How very sad.
I didn´t mean to trivialise their deaths by saying the meeting wasn´t remembered for what happened on track. That statement referred to the results, and not to that terrible accident. I hope that is understood.

Didn´t Boy Brouwer have an extravagant, but rather splendid handlebar moustache?
Maybe someone has a photo of him. Ton?

Boy Brouwer with long time passenger Anneke Mak :

Ah yes, it´s all coming back. Boy actually chaired for the man I had in mind with the extravagant mustache, Egbert Streuer.
Thanks for that pic Ton.

Boy Brouwer with Jan Oostwouder, 8th place TT Assen 1978 :

Boy chaired for Egbert Streuer in the 1980 British GP.

Graham will have a great picture for us from that race, I hope.

Egbert Streuer :

Sadly not from 1980, but here is Eggy in 1985 with Bernard Schneiders

Photo Copyrighted to Graham Etheridge, racebikepics
and again 1985.

Photo Copyrighted to Graham Etheridge, racebikepics.

Not from the race I'm afraid, but this was taken on the Saturday during practice:



Andy

Another from Egbert Streuer and Boy Brouwer 1980 :

Is it my imagination or has it gone quiet on here the last few days?
Anyway, a good reason to rescue us from page 2.
Please forgive the frequent reference to Southern African riders and events, but that is where I was from.
Not an easy www, but quite a well known figure on the continental circus, even though he didn´t actually race outside of his home territory, where he won a national production championship for Ducati.
He gave the then world champ, Rod Gould, a run for his money when finishing second behind him at Kayalami in 1971.
I can see the wrinkled brows as I type.

Paul, did you manage to find the information on the original colours of the Mk7 RG? If not, I have a couple of b/w pics that might help.

Paul M

Hi Macca, no not yet.

Hi Rhodie,
I thinking of Keith Pietersen but I am really not sure because Keith did race in the UK. Thinking of the Production title on a Ducati and he a rode 600 Pantah for Presto Parcels.
More clues if it is not guessed already.

Peter

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Ive just been digging through my old pictures & found this.
British GP, Silverstone, probably 81 or 82 & my fading memory tells me its Egbert. Not 100% sure though.


Im sure someone will confirm or deny........Probably the latter!!! :\

Oh cobblers!!!
Where is my picture?

Sorry guys not used photobucket before.......can you tell?

1981 he was #11
1982 #8

So 81 then.......im in a state of shock that I remembered!!

Now I just need to work out how to get my photos to appear. Any clues please?

Keith Peterson is correct Peter. Well Done.
I should have known you´d get that as I think he replaced you as Jon´s spannerman in 1980??? He´s probably better known for being the man responsible for Ekerold success, rather than for his own racing career though, which is a bit unfair really, as he was a damn fine rider in his own right. Sadly, as you know he lost his life at Kyalami.
I must say I was unaware that he raced in the UK. When was that Peter, and what sort of success did he enjoy?
It´s not widely known, but Keith was Offie Howard´s cousin, and travelled down south (a Rhodesian expression for riders going to race in SA ) together with his older and more experienced relative more often than not. It was in fact Offie who was his inspiration, and if you compare their riding styles you can see the influence he had on Keith. Compare this pic of Offie with the earlier one of Keith. Definitely two of our best riders in the post Redman, Hocking period.