Hi. Does anyone know what happened to Chris Guy? I met him once when I was very ill and he got my dad and I tickets to Donnington . A really great bloke and I would love to know where he is now..
Many thanks for any help , Will

I invite you to go to our motorcycle forum with our British experts
http://forums.atlasf1.com/showthread.php?s...466#post2631466

Anthony... that's not a forum, only a thread! Therefore I'd positively encourage you and all the other bike regulars to begin new threads such as this one by Gollyman (welcome, by the way! ).

Who knows, it may one day lead to the creation of a sister forum...

Yes i think too, and it was not my idea. It was just to aid our new friend to have more answers

frienly ;)

Cheers .. Good to be here :-)

There are some mentions around December in the Motorcycle Nostalgia thread & a pic or three from post 1715

No answers so far .. I would look on the racing thread but its 141 pages and I just get dizzy.. I would still love to know wehere Chris Guy is these days.
Cheers, Will

Go to top right of the forum page - look for an dclick on search BB - then enter Chris Guy in the search field, tick the box show only as posts and then start the search

Well done Mike, so thats how its done!! I was trawling through the posts this morning!!

My uncle was running a team in the late 70s, and early 80s, and he took on Chris after he left Mal Carter's Pharoah Yamaha team. I went to a lot of meetings in my early teens, and he was a nice chap. During those years, my Uncle ran a Honda 125, F2, & F1 Bike, and later a TZ750. Chris was certainly a very talented rider, even though he did "chuck it up the road" a few times from what I could recall. But isn't that always the way when you are young ?

My Uncle's team packed up around 1981 and his Bike Dealership folded the year later. I remember seeing Chris Race on TV a year or so later, and got some really good results on a virtually sponsorless (White) RG500. Also, around that time he was leading the Senior (??) TT, when it was abandoned due to fog.

I believe he more or less had to give up, and go back to his full time job after that, although from what I was told by my dad - who was my uncle's mechanic - he was killed somewhere like Anderstorp or Zandvoort. It is a little vague sadly. Sorry I can't be any more help.

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/sport/sp...k/?&R=EPI-94561

Is this the same guy? (excuse the pun!)

No sorry , Chris would be about 52 or 53 now . I knew him and some of his family quite well , there have been quite lot of postings on the 69/90 thread .
Incidentally I sold a car to one of his old friends nieces a fortnight ago !!! But they had'nt seen him

Hello Phil Don't you think it strange for someone who was quite well known att, to totally disappear? His Father often used to be at the UK races, Sister too sometimes.
IIRC Guy senior reminded me of Cap'n BirdsEye

Be interested to know as well, he was always good value IMO

Well Mike and Stu , I got to know Chris not through racing but through milk!!!! In the late '70's till the mid '80's although involved in racing with the Marks brothers and then Tony Head I owned 2 milk rounds in and around Exeter and delivered milk etc. to his uncle in a village called Shillingford whose car sported Chris Guy stickers . Yes , the Captain Birds Eye tag has been talked about also . If Chris is still in my part of the world I will find out hopefully , as I gave my buisness card to the girl I sold the car to and passed on the message to Chris that I still live in the same house !! so we will see
Perhaps we can start a thread on those who have walked away into the sunset............................

Better to have walked than be carried!!

I recall Chris Guy having to fund his own racing in the early '80s and was at Donny when he dropped his Brand new RG500 along with Marke Salle and another rider. It might have been on the warm up lap, but anyway, there were 42,000 quids worth of RGs wrecked at the bottom af Craner's and I don't think Chris raced again due to the huge financial burden he had taken on. There was a report in MCN that told of his predicament. I doubt he would have stopped otherwise.


David

Errrrrnie!!!!

I also recall him dropping it at a televised meeting at Donny 1982/83? when leading, at Goddards? before the loop bit was there at the end of the Dunlop bridge straight, then saw him at Brands in 1984 again fall off along with Ivan Gray, when Chris was riding an RG500 which was supposed to look like Eddie Lawson & his Yamaha!! in the Space Riders film.

Photo Copyrighted to Graham Etheridge, racebikepics.

It was the cost of the RS500 Honda in 1984 that was so difficult to fund. He missed half the GP's including Silverstone.

That's right, I knew it had come down to money somewhere and poor Chris just couldn't raise the backing. Shame as he was definitely destined for better things.

Thanks Mike


David

There was definately a feeling amongst some riders having seen the success of the Spencer NS500, a production version was the thing to have. IIRC they were much more expensive to run than the RG Suzuki. Keith Huewen also made the Honda RS500 choice but he had some reasonable backers in SDC. I'm pretty certain the only RS500 that got results in the UK were the Honda Britain bikes of Gardner & Marshall

Yes Mike, Ron Haslam and Roger Burnett also, Roger won the '86 Senior on his Honda Britain RS. I don't know how much they differed from the over-the-counter bikes though,

I also don't remember any other privateer results of note.

I remember Mike Baldwin doing pretty well on his RS500s in 1985, which by the way were the same bikes he won the US F1 championship with in 1984. I do believe he received some factory parts from Honda during the '85 season though.

The year I was thinking of (first year of the RS) Gardner & Marshall ran them as Honda Britain red top bikes, but Rocket was on a blue topped NS works bike, Then it became more confusing the following year with Rothmans Honda & Rothmans Honda Britain bikes looking similar. Not sure that they were all exactly the same bikes. Point being as you say, privateers had very little success on them.

Is this the same Chris Guy who won a Production race in the I.O.M. He had some brothers and they along with Guy Senior also owned a BMW road bike each. The Capt. Birds Eye tag may have been born of the fact that if it is the same Guy senior, he also owned, as I did and Chris, a Waterwitch class yacht, in my case a sloop, in the Guy's case a ketch. Last I heard Chris Guy lived on the Island.

Well red , it is the same guy don't know about brothers , but daddy Guy bore an uncanny resemblence to the ' Captain Birds Eye ' of the adds

I only met a sister, living Lichfield way, who I think (for a while) dallied with Steve Mackin.

Thats right Mike , i'd forgotten about her

Didn't Chris go powerboat racing or something like that after he left the bike racing scene??

I seem to recall seeing this somewhere

Hi all
Chris is alive and very well. I have a meeting with him this eve.
Now lives in Exeter
My how rumor are spread......

Say hello from me In those days back in the early 80's before I discovered a source for fluorescent pink paint, I had to sneak around chemists looking for pink nail varnish. It had a devasting effect on my street cred

First of all welcome to the forum What a big surprise
Secondly say a big ' hello ' from me , and tell him I still live in the same house in Kennford !!!
I think i'll pm you .

You still owe me a beer Chris!!!

I think we'll form an orderly queue , Stu

Nice to hear Chris is well, mabe he'd do some demo laps at a meet sometime if there's a spare bike about?


David

I have a Mk5 RG fresh from Nigel Everett, if Chris is Interested.

PM me if so.

Mark

If Chris isn't interested, I AM. By the way say hello to Nigel if you see him, I've lost track of him since we were at Kawasaki together.

Rod

Last I heard as well as doing bike restoration etc he & his Wife have a B&B on the South Coast? I am sure PaulMB will have his address Rod.?

Edit. Nigel that is not Chris!

Nigel is doing fine, he down in Nuttley, East Sussex restoring my 2 RG500 machines, Mk5 is finished Mk2 should be done in a couple of weeks.


PM me if you would like contact details, I would not like to openly give his location details without his consent, I can provide e mail address, if you wish to PM me.

Cheers

Mark

Hi Rod,

Please PM me.

Mark

I use the same gym as Chris I shall pass the message on he's being asked about.

Welcome to the old farts forum , Lee , please pass on my regards to him , thanks , Phil
Hope you stay around , look forward to your input

That will make him keep his head down!