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#1 Michael Ferner

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Posted 24 May 2023 - 08:15

 Vostok racers | MotoVue

 

Lovely article about the (often confusingly named) Soviet bikes  :)



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#2 Bob Riebe

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Posted 25 May 2023 - 02:01

Thank you very much. :cool:



#3 serafini

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Posted 27 June 2023 - 08:30

Based on the book "Vostok Road Racers"

Even repeats the mistake about the 1957 250 TT being held on the Mountain; it was the Clypse



#4 Michael Ferner

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Posted 29 June 2023 - 10:10

True. The infamous race were they decied to flag off the race "continental style", then forgot about that when publishing the results and finally had to backtrack and "calculate" the official results by some questionable means. Not the finest hour of IoM officialdom!