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[rd500]

hi, just thinking there must be some cracking sponsors on bikes in the past that were out of the norm, i always remember dave peterson on the Kreepy Krawley honda i liked that.

[GD66]

One of the Americans riding in the NZ Marlboro Series in the 1974/75 season, I think it was Phil Frank, carried the phrase Behind The Green Door on his fairing : we soon discovered it was a Marilyn Chambers porno ! The film company had given him some support to make the trip...

[rd500]

thats a good one

[tonyed]

Jim Felice was riding the

www.teamhurtbyaccident.com bike.

[MoMurray]

tonyed, on Oct 27 2011, 23:59, said:

Jim Felice was riding the

www.teamhurtbyaccident.com bike.

Filice.

[tonyed]

MoMurray, on Oct 28 2011, 16:02, said:

Filice.

Yes. But it was my half hour lunchtime at work.

We had a garage just down from him at Daytona 1981, used the same tyres as Jimmy (tires in American, Felice is Filice in real English ) we invented the language and can use it as we like, even when it's wrong

Anyway the thread was about 'Funny or Strange Sponsorships' if I'd known it was a spelling lesson I'd have employed a lawyer.

Cheers Mo

[jonnoj]

Dolly Buster sponsored a sidecar team years ago - same kind of business as Marilyn Chambers & Playboy put money into Randy de Puniet.

My brother swears blind there was a topless bunny on the grid a year or two ago.

[MoMurray]

tonyed, on Oct 28 2011, 06:24, said:

Yes. But it was my half hour lunchtime at work.

We had a garage just down from him at Daytona 1981, used the same tyres as Jimmy (tires in American, Felice is Filice in real English ) we invented the language and can use it as we like, even when it's wrong

Anyway the thread was about 'Funny or Strange Sponsorships' if I'd known it was a spelling lesson I'd have employed a lawyer.

Cheers Mo

Ok Tiny...

[fil2.8]

TTFN ( Ta-Ta For Now )


I still have a few ' T ' shirts of their's from Daytona , with either ' Life Begins at 130 ' or , Road Racers Go In Deeper , Come Out Harder , as the logo's , I would model them for you , but they appear to have shrunk , , after 30 years in a drawer .........................................

[philippe7]

Andy Preining was famously sponsored, for many seasons of his career in 250 Grand Prix, by austrian magazine OKM - which was , as stated on his fairing on the pic linked below, " das erotik kontaktmagazin"

http://www.highsider...ining_91_04.htm

[Paul Collins]

I remember Frank Wrathall being sponsored by 'Stoppers' who produced some kind of stop smoking pill, this being at the time when everyone else seemed to be sponsored by tobacco companies, I often wondered what the likes of Rothmans thought when Frank pitched up next to them at a race meeting

Going back a bit further, Jack Machin was sponsored by Lincoln Cathedral for a while in the late 70's, I can only assume that the Bishop of Lincoln at the time was a racing enthusiast.

[Hoofhearted]

I remember in the 70s an English rider being sponsored by Durex. Afraid his name has escaped me. But I do remember the cartoon in MCN. It showed the rider talking to his mechanic saying "What do mean I have to wear one when I'm racing?"

[Paul Collins]

Hoofhearted, on Oct 29 2011, 19:31, said:

I remember in the 70s an English rider being sponsored by Durex. Afraid his name has escaped me. But I do remember the cartoon in MCN. It showed the rider talking to his mechanic saying "What do mean I have to wear one when I'm racing?"

During the Durex Suzuki days MCN had a cartoon depicting James Whtham pulling up to retire and saying to Mick Grant something like 'Sorry Mick, it split and I had to pull out'

[jonnoj]

Paul Collins, on Oct 29 2011, 21:11, said:

During the Durex Suzuki days MCN had a cartoon depicting James Whtham pulling up to retire and saying to Mick Grant something like 'Sorry Mick, it split and I had to pull out'

Did they really call the bike "Slippery When Wet" ?

http://www.amazon.co...s/dp/B005G6KTSG

[rotrax]

rd500, on Oct 28 2011, 10:28, said:

hi, just thinking there must be some cracking sponsors on bikes in the past that were out of the norm, i always remember dave peterson on the Kreepy Krawley honda i liked that.

I forget his name but in the eighties a Long Eton Speedway rider was sponsored by a small office supplies company-for product only. What did he use from them?Elastic bands and paper clips to make his Flicker-automatic tear off changer-work!