Watching a 'Shed and Buried' best bits yesterday and Henry Cole was in Northern Ireland and visited the premises of a father and son who were both named Gordon.
They had many Land Rovers, Tractors etc but most interestingly to me a stack of racing machines.
The older (father) Gordon said he raced an Aermacchi in the past and the collection of bikes included several G50, Seeleys, Honda RS 125, Greeves Oulton, Ducati Pantah but most interestingly a Suzuki RG 500 in the standard Suzuki blue and white (exhausts had no silencers) and a 500 Sparton.
The only 500 Sparton I know of in NI was Big Frank Kennedys' sponsored by Taggarts on which he came second in the 1976 NW200 and he also rode a RG for Turtles.
As it would happen yesterday I was also reading a Classic Racer from May/June 2006 and a feature in this volume about the Armoy Armada and lo and behold there is Big Frank pictured on both machines.
The piccies are black and white but the RG looks in standard blue and white but has silencers.
Unfortunately Henry Cole didn't look too closely at the two machines in one of Gordons extensive sheds as he seemed more interested in a petrol pump and a clock as they were more within their budget.
So chaps and chapesses who are the aforementioned two Gordons.
Edited by tonyed, 28 June 2018 - 12:34.
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