Not Steve Trasler. I took that picture about 5 or 6 laps into an 8 lap race, Trasler would have probably been picking himself out of the haybales by then!...maybe a bit cruel but I seem to have recollections of him falling off a lot.

It's Steve Lanyman.

Spud didn't know anyway... He doesn't guess Robin...probably got the programme though




David

Who's Spud?

fil2b or whatever he calls himself on here...always cheats too


David

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You mean philipa............

Any pics uncle Phil?

'allo Pete



Dave

I did take a few at Mallory over the weekend but not toooooooo good.........+ there were noooooooooo 2 strokers to take any good piccies of I deffo need a new camera

one that changes four strokes to two strokes then Pete?

Ye do they make one of those then daisy?

The Speed Channel manage to do it, though the other way round

Here ya go..........

Is that on the A34 ??

A40......

Is number 72 on a different track?

Why do the sign say Mondello park worzel?

Malady Park since I always crash there

and that chicane is stupid, boring and dangerous

They have ruined a perfectly great circuit,what with the bustop aswell

The elbow was good before the bus stop, I crashed exiting that and one of the other lads bust his pelvis going into it...dangerous but the bikes make too much power for the elbow now maybe so there's not much option I suppose

That's for us with bus passes to wait for a number 18 !!!

I don't know if they have them here.....hmmmmm

Me thinks’ all circuits have been shagged by putting in the mandatory hairpin in ....

there are a few out here without that crap including this one ( about 160 miles away)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEf2NaAMnCc...feature=related


Dave

The NW200 now has 5 chicanes in it.
What a track it must have been without them.

Two schools of thought on this, I raced at Mallory without the bus stop and devils elbow was a bit scary, also the barriers were really close, but I also think the old saying of 'the throttle works both ways' applies equally.

I think they spoilt a lot of circuits in the 90s and i'm glad I rode them all before this took place, I have particularly vivid memories of going through the old start/finish at Scarborough before farm bends was installed, I think it was just about flat out in 5th on my 350 aiming for the grey bit between the green bits, bloody awesome!!

If they carry on with this chicane culture most circuits over the next 10 years will become one constant flip flop of chicanes with average lap speeds of about 45mph punctuated by loads of painful highsides (unless of course traction control has made highsides impossible by then)

What did Stu Avant call it pre-chicanes?

Something like a NZ track on steroids!

I did Mallory pre and post bus stop, I thought it was a good idea safety wise for the quick stuff but when they added Edwinas and the Gerards exit chicanes because the BSB guys were lapping in 40-odd seconds, I thought it was a retrograde step which completely ruined the character of the track. It's just a Three Sisters clone now.

3 Sisters brings back memories, it was a crazy little place, I won my first race there and actually used to enjoy going there a couple of times a year just for something a bit different, can you believe it was even shorter in those days!! I used only the first 3 gears for the whole lap on a TZ350 maybe just hooking 4th for about 2 seconds past the start/finish line.

I am old enough to have done them all without Chicanes and I think we had the Lap Record or Race Record at the NW200 for years. The wost was the old Spa. Scared the shit out of me and I was hopeless but with the chicanes and shortened I was half a chance.....

They started putting in Chicanes in the NW200 after 1982, due to the demise of John Newbold in that year’s race ... sad day!!

I had the pleasure of spending a Sunday riding round the old Spa circuit on a mates FZR600 when I worked in Belgium in '98, bloody awesome I thought, the potholes in the road gave me the shits as well!!

Don't know if any of you saw it, but on the NW coverage BBC did a Q & A with Guy Martin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL3qXlZSWbM
What he says about the new chicane at Mathers is hilarious - from 3 minutes 10 seconds, but the whole interview brilliant...

Just to add to this, I got the FZR up to 235 kph in places and was shitting myself with the state of the roads, respect to Stu et al who raced there in anger I loved the Stavelot/Blanchimont sections, really qick, even on open roads.

Just found this stuff, excellent, I used to mechanic for him, Oulton Park was where the dreadful smash happened. He went out in practice and the URS ? turned right in to the pits in front of him without putting his hand up. Smashed all the fairing up so he decided to race naked. He had a good start, Pat Sheridan in front, Mac Hobson. Chris Vincent hung back, there was a rumour later on that he had hung back because he had a bad feeling about it all. Down the back straight they went, Sheridan went off, him and his passenger died, Gary went off, head first in to the barrier, his new Bell helmet looked like a hard boiled egg that had been tapped on the top, Pete, his passenger was hit by a chap, forget his name now, that powered thru the melee, he died instantly. Ill never forget that day, Gary was talking to Weslake, they were developing a 500 for the Grand Prix, all over, friends dead, the horrible drive to Gobowen to learn he had spinal injuries.
The Battle of the Twins, magic, stuffed Ducati good style, unbelievable.
Stu

Welcome to the site , Stu , and for the details of that horrible accident , a sad time for all , I held / hold Gary in high regard for his achievements , are you still in contact with him ?

Gary usually attends Aintree race meetings/

Yes , thought he might Steve , saw him at Donington with the RGB and Mike Hose , at the CRMC meeting , last year

Tony Matthews also from Lowestoft. ?

Hi, I raced in big proddie class in 82/83, on a cb900f against Robin Drury, Dave Burford, Mark Bowen, Graham Marchant, Paul Lund etc. I really love your photos of this era, do you have many others ??
Mark Heard

Hi there, I was a regular with southern 67 in 1982/83 in the big proddie class, I did manage to prise a couple of top 3 trophies out of them, but didnt get one for 3rd overall in 1983. they were quite a good little club really. Mark Heard

I agree, they were a nice little club and i enjoyed their meetings and the battles with Tony Green and Jimmy Webb in the 250 Proddy class. It was handy that they had the formula 250 class as well, the extra rides were fun, especially dicing with Steve Colville(always an eye opener)

I will have a look at some of my pics, i knew graham marchant when i lived in sevenoaks. His bike was looked after martin sweet of sevenoaks motorcycles. I lived next to that shop and knew it from old when it was jim sharp's.

Regards

Kevin Sweet

Hi Kevin, thanks for the reply. Did you have any luck with finding any photo's ??

Regards

Mark