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[mba21]

I thought I would start this topic as I have been trying to locate my old TZ 125 G,I am sure many on here would like to know what has happened to their old race machinery.
Good luck with your search.

[mba21]

I thought I would start this topic as I have been trying to locate my old TZ 125 G,I am sure many on here would like to know what has happened to their old race machinery.
Good luck with your search.

Looking for my old machine.



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This is how it was the last time I saw it,I believe the picture was posted on here.



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Edited by mba21, 12 May 2012 - 23:37.

[SMonty]

Great topic for a thread.

But it'll be a bit like looking for the preverbial needles in haystacks!

p.s. was that a Motiv pipe on your TZ125 in the second pic?

[Russell Burrows]

Yes, a needle in a haysyack, but you never know. I've tried to trace this '61 7R, engine/frame number 4732, for some time. Lovely, innit.

[Rennmax]

When did you sell it Russ? I'd better don't ask about the price...

[Russell Burrows]

When did you sell it Russ? I'd better don't ask about the price...

In early '72, Renn, for I think £250. It was raced by a guy called Gary Carter before myself.

[fil2.8]

In early '72, Renn, for I think £250. It was raced by a guy called Gary Carter before myself.

I remember Gary Carter , Russ I think , he was a bit handy , IIRC

[Russell Burrows]

I remember Gary Carter , Russ I think , he was a bit handy , IIRC

He was Phil, he then acquired a Yamsel that if memory serves was previously Cooper's. I remember seeing the the motor in bits on his kitchen table and his dad, himself an old racer, telling me not to get one myself unless I had loads of dosh to run it.

Edited by Russell Burrows, 14 May 2012 - 22:07.

[picblanc]

He was Phil, he then acquired a Yamsel that if memory serves was previously Cooper's. I remember seeing the the motor in bits on his kitchen table and his dad, himself an old racer, telling me not to get one myself unless I had loads of dosh to run it.

Different machine, but Gary with his Dad in yellow @ Snetterton 1975/76?

Photo Copyrighted to Graham Etheridge.

[Russell Burrows]

Thanks, Graham. Is that Tony Nash in the foreground?

[picblanc]

No Russ not Tony.

[zidder]

Love to know what happened to my TD2B, sold it to a guy in Hinkley who had a few bikes which he said he sold abroad

[mba21]

Great topic for a thread.

But it'll be a bit like looking for the preverbial needles in haystacks!

p.s. was that a Motiv pipe on your TZ125 in the second pic?

It was the standard pipe as fitted to a 125g,but the silence broke off,and I had to do a quick repair,and the alloy job was put on.

[Robin127]

My Hejira framed 250cc Rotax single in 1984.




I initially built the bike in 1981 and sold it in 1987 when I bought a Camier framed 500 Honda. I didn't need to sell it but I only had a small shed and I couldn't keep both bikes so I reluctantly parted with it.

Over the years I sometimes wondered what happened to it and occassionally I dreamed about riding it again. In 2001 I moved to the US and in 2008 I was looking through the WERA rule book (for want of nothing better to do) and saw that indexed into one of their vintage classes was "round tubed Hejira frames fitted with CanAm 250 engines." This was due to a rider petitioning the club for his bike to be allowed in.

I traced the owner and after several emails, telephone calls and exchanges of photographs it turned out to be my old bike. Twenty one years after selling it and on a different continent I was reunited with it.

[Sakkie]

Thanks, Graham. Is that Tony Nash in the foreground?

A youthful Norman Brown, I would have thought.

[picblanc]

Nice one Robin! good to put a face to posters on here too, we did put our mug shots up on the original giant thread many years a go, some were more frightening than others!!

[picblanc]

A youthful Norman Brown, I would have thought.

No not Norman Sakkie, this was just a "small" National meeting here in South East England, if Norman came over I think it was well after 1976?

[fil2.8]

Nice one Robin! good to put a face to posters on here too, we did put our mug shots up on the original giant thread many years a go, some were more frightening than others!!

Yes , good ending , Robin , and as my friend says , some were more frightening ( his ) than others ( mine ) ,

[dommieracer]

Hey Phil, is the first post in this Worzel's pic. Seen that mug, sorry photo before. If so that the gent that called me cheeky for the comments on his wheels he has for sale on FB.

Kevin

[exclubracer]

No not Norman Sakkie, this was just a "small" National meeting here in South East England, if Norman came over I think it was well after 1976?

Correct Graham, in '76 Norman would have been 16, he started racing when 19 or 20 and AFAIK his first mainland visit was '82.

[mba21]

Hey Phil, is the first post in this Worzel's pic. Seen that mug, sorry photo before. If so that the gent that called me cheeky for the comments on his wheels he has for sale on FB.

Kevin

It is me !