Yes, thank you Graham.

Anyone ever seen this colour of swingarm on other period Yamahas? Or know why it may have been changed?

Just thought I'd say Hi to anyone who remembers me and confirm 'twas me who won the 350's in 1980 and the 500cc Production in 1979. I have lots of cherished memories from those Bemsee meetings and fondly remember Kenny Pinks and many of the others on this forum. Great times, great memories. Nigel Corby.

Hi , Nigel and welcome to the forum sure your'e remembered by many on this forum , see it's taken a while to post ...........................

Hi Nigel, welcome to the forum also from me. Hope to hear some of your tales from the race scenes of yesteryear.


Nigel (Lambo)

Welcome Nigel.

Stephen, thank you for the enquiry; I have had time off during the Christmas hols and don't look at the computer at home.
Am now back at work and would be very pleased to chat about racing, especially during the seventies period.

Graham, have not seen that b&w pic before. Really nice, thank you.

Best wishes, Peter Weale.

Stephen, this is a standard TD2 swinging arm and is just painted red as I had some red aerosol; no other reason.

Peter.

Your welcome Peter, glad you cleared up the red swingarm mystery!

Peter, you have a PM.

Hi Paul. I'm doing good thanks. Afraid I don't have any complete Bemsee results. All I do have is a book listing my own results and fastest laps for every race I did until '83.

Having moved house on average once every two years since then including changing countries I don't have a lot of stuff left.

I do have a few MCN and MCW cuttings with the results in though. Are we allowed to post them or will we end being hung drawn and quartered by the copyright police???

Fire ahead, son. You've already attributed their origin. When you're grabbing pics from sites and flogging them or using them for pet moneymaking projects, you can expect to get rolled, and rightly so. But clippings from mags of the day are fair game.The Copyright Police just had a swing at a bloke in the car forum over a link to a sound bite off a 1966 record that's no longer available, and had their toenails clipped.

Must read that what topic is it in Glenn?

Thanks for that. I'm just going out to the barn. I may be some time.

It's on page 2, entitled Sound Track to the 1966 Le Mans... just had a quick peek, and it's kicked along a bit since I last had a look. Be interested in your take on it Gra, in view of what happened earlier in the year.

Good spot Glenn, useful info for those of us who find old stuff in now defunct mags and suchlike...

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It's on page 2, entitled Sound Track to the 1966 Le Mans... just had a quick peek, and it's kicked along a bit since I last had a look. Be interested in your take on it Gra, in view of what happened earlier in the year.


[/quoteBlimey those car guys get real hot under the collar dont they!!, personally if not for profit then I dont see the harm, but if Duke (I hate that company) decide they want to buy it then it will get pulled from where ever it is & he will get slapped wrists.

Slightly off piste Mike but I am restoring a Morris Marina and a Yellow Transit that have your name in the log book. Do you know how the Marina roof got so full of filler? Also, am looking for some Corsair wheels and a Formula Ford chassis last seen buried in a vegetable patch?

1975 350cc
Mick Patrick

Mick 1975 Snetterton.

Photo Copyrighted to Graham Etheridge, racebikepics.

Two names come to mind, Graham Marchant and Peter? Darby. Did they become bemse champions? think the later was a king of brands and was in the 87 transatlantic.

Kevin

You must have thousands of photos! Someone just mentions a rider and hey presto there's a pic.

Quite a few Robin, especially from 1975-77.

Dommieracer, do you mean Pete Dalby ? IIRC he got the ride in the transatlantic for being Champion of Brands.

I recall reading or being told a good story about a "mod" his mechanics supposedly did to his GSXR750 for the transatlantic. They saw the factory airboxes that were on the american bikes and decided to rig up their own version. But not having the resources of Suzuki Japan to call on, they fashioned their own using a shoebox & gaffa tape

I'm not sure if it's true or not, but it always brings a smile to my face thinking about it.

Mark.

I can confirm it's true, I saw it.

I remember at the time thinking that he might go quite well as he was a bit of a Brands specialist and a tidy rider, but then you saw the absolute difference between a good rider on a good bike and a works rider on a works bike.

And hi Mark, seems a long time ago that we were both racing in the Bemsee 4 stroke 500 class.

Hi Desmophile,

Blimey, you've got me worried as you obviously remember me from way back - Bemsee in the mid to late 80's ? You're right, it seems like a lifetime ago now

I've been wracking my brains to try and work out who you are, but given your username I can only recall one Ducati rider (500 Pantah ?) from that time I knew in the paddock - Colin Carey ? Apologies if I'm wrong and you'll have to put me out of my misery

Mark.

You have it in one Mark, I'll PM you when I get a minute.