I thought it was the first floodlight race .................years ahead of it's time

Looks like we have beat 'um Russ. One 125 TT, 1962 and one 350 TT, 1960.
Answers on a postcard.
Roy

Sorry guy's John Hartle ??

I don't suppose it's Fred Launchberry ? on the Bantam is it ?? If not , clue , please

Well fil2.8, 1/2 ain't bad. Yes John Hartle on the 'Fire engine' winning the 350 TT, 1960.
Now the other is the hard one, Rider and bike from the Eastern Bloc.
Roy

Malina on a CZ ?

Well , I don't think it's a MZ , so could it be a CZ perhaps ??

Reckon thats it Rennmax

His helmet puzzled me, I thought that all these CZ riders had the corporate Stastny/Havel helmet design..

Well done Rennmax, Stanislav Malina on his CZ came home 7th.
Its good night from him,
Roy

There was only one eastern entry in that race, so your hint was quite helpful

Good night gents

A nice easy one for you

Ubialli on a 125 MV early fifties ?

Thats right Russell 1953 125 The race Les Graham won.

And in behind is Cecil Sandford on factory MV No 52.

Good morning all.
Thats a great picture of Carlo Ubbialli.
Does anyone have the race numbers in the 500 1953 TT of Les Graham and Carlo Bandirola on their MV's please.
I am also after any race numbers for all or any entries in the solo classes of the 1957 TT.
This will help us ID some more of Ian Simpson's photos.
Thanks,
Roy

This is for you Aermacchi boys, how it all started.
Roy

Good morning Roy, Wheeler on a Guzzi followed by A. Pagani ??

This is an interesting shot as it shows the last of the 250 Guzzi and the first its replacements, the Aermacchi.
1/2 Renn, yes Arthur Wheeler who came home 4th is correct.
The Aermacchi is Gilberto Milani who was DNF.
Roy

Ok Renn who are these riders?
Roy

TP is the second one of course, there were 2 private Aermacchi rider (Senior, Robertson) so I guess one of them

BTW, Hailwood competed on a single cylinder Benelli in that race...any pics ???

Alberto Pagani

Hi Larry, you must have been in the knife box this morning. Yes Alberto Pagani (5th) leads Tom Phillis (3rd).
So we are now into requests, will have to go into the archives.
Well done Renn and Larry.
Roy

How about this Larry, Mike the Bike on his 250 Benelli. He crashed, ripped of the fairing and got going but later was DNF.
Roy

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Roy, I think this is the race....26, perhaps?

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[quote name='Russell Burrows' date='Aug 14 2009, 17:56' post='3796185']


Roy, I think this is the race....26, perhaps?


Hi Russ,
Thanks for that, we think they were 17 & 18 but not sure who was who. Your shot again shows the exhaust 4 into 2 system.
Roy

Aye, I remember that one.

Not a great bicycle, the Benelli single, if it wasn't run by the factory.

Ralph Bryans rode one, and here in Ireland Harry Dunlop had one briefly, neither with any success.

My very good, and sadly late, friend Hans-Otto Butenuth tried to run a season with one (there wasn't a bike that he didn't race in his 40 year career!!).

Quote (verbatim!) "Shit bike, never finished a race"

Says it all really.

WWW


By larryd

I know who it is, but am not sure where.

For a bonus 1 Million points, can anyone tell me who is on No 14 behind??

Agostini, I think, with Liberati on the Gilera immediately behind. Keith Bryen number 3 ? Don't know 14, nor can I ID where....

I could well be going do-lalley as I can't find Salter in the programmes where I thought I would....

Stay cool Russ, go with the flow.
Just been watching young Brad Smith come home 2nd, I bet it does not merit a column in the comics tomorrow.
Roy

Here's one for the the 7R expert, Russell. Where, when and whose bike? If you know this one you're a genius.

Well , Russ is AWAL so i'll have a punt . Looking at the surroundings , US of A , Daytona 1961/2 ?? How about Bud Perrott ?? or simular ??

WWW

I wish..... Errol Cowan's 7R , somewhere in Southern Africa circa '66 Or....is it the ex Hocking/Beale bike..? Hang on though, is that grass in the paddock...... Perhaps it's North America after all

Hi Renn, Tony Wakefield and John Flaxman on their Be'em ?....looks a bit like the Palace but probably isn't.

Hi Russ, that's spot on, and it's a cold and miserable Nürburgring in '70, armco instead of sleepers...

Can we have the info on this one please, Rod.

Hi Roy - in the 1953 Senior, Les Graham was No 18 and Carlo Bandirola No 86. Carlo withdrew at the pits, end of lap 2, as a mark of respect.

We've been barking up the Scott tree with this one,but wasn't there a guy riding an Ariel Arrow special(looks like Arrow primary side)in a small MV Agusta frame in the 60s.Name Walsh keeps nagging at my feeble brain!
HW

There was Pat Walsh who raced an MV in the early sixties. I think you're onto something Herr...... on closer inspection it dosen't seem to be watercooled ?

No Russell,thats what I was thinking.Only the 350 racer and some obscure very vintage Scotts were air-cooled.I've done some scraping in the TT results.P.J. Walsh rode an Ariel in L/weight 250,and MV in Ultra L/weight 125 races.
HW

In a similar vein,my last job when I was 'English' was delivering soft furnishings (cushy number eh?).Took some to a place in Harrogate.Young chap in the stores there was,it transpired from the Czech Republic.Don't know much about the place says I,apart from some fine racing motorcycles and some very hard riders,one being Franta Stastny.Don't know much about bikes says the lad,but there used to be a famous Ice Hockey player in Czech,years ago,called Stastny.Did some digging on returning home to the 'archives',and it turns out OUR Frankie was a bit of a whizz on the ice,as well as being a damn good motorcycle racer!
HW

I have to confess Herr, that I had misremembered that the Scully bike was aircooled...... I still think you're on the right track.

You were closer first time around. It was taken in Bulawayo c.1963. The 7R belonged at that time to Len Carcary (from whom we got all the great Hocking photos). It was fitted with a Manx tank. Len is not sure who owned it after him but is pretty certain that it wasn't Errol Cowan.

Hello Guys,
Thanks Larry for sorting the 1953 500 TT MV numbers. We can do some sorting now.
Herr W, Thats interesting about Franta Stastni doing ice skating in the winter, one way to keep fit.
The first Ariel Arrow was campaigned by Mike O'Rourke, but that was in the standard pressed steel frame. This was a semi works effort, Herman Meir was hamstrungby having to use standard parts.
The pic is another one from 1962 250 TT.
Enjoy,
Roy

Franta Stastny's wife Jarmila was a Czech ice-skating champion.

As to the 1962 250 TT photo, that's my "uncle" Denis Gallagher, whose racing career ran from 1957 to this year's Skerries Road Races, where he was fetched off by a backmarker when scrapping for the lead of the 350 Classic Race.

A lovely man and an absolute star all his racing life - taught me the way round many circuits!!.

Dennis Gallagher is a bloody top guy (proper racer). That shot of him is when he is riding the John Clarke 250cc Velo KTT. The frame was built for John at Joe Potts' in 1958. John Clarke ran a dealership from East Kilbride, but previously had worked for Rolls Royce. John used his RR contacts in order to get special cranks made for the 250cc Velo engines (he made a few). I think Dennis finished 10th in the 63 TT on this bike.

Hi Larry,
Glad the shot of 'Uncle' Denis was appreciated. He had no joy on his Velo in 1962 but came home 10th the following year and another DNF on a Velo in 1964.
Thats interesting about the Joe Potts connection. After 1964 Ivan Rhodes raced a Velo in the TT twiceat least.
Roy