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[Pat]

Hi,
Wounder if any of you may have a clue how this rider is?
http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu54/pa...0_BantamBSA.jpg
The photo came from a French classic website, but unfortunatley I dont remember the address, apologize.

Pat

[alan]

its a grand lad called Odgie, rides his sunbeam tigress scooter engined BSA in the Red Rose and Yorkshire Classic rounds when he is not drag racing Yank cars.. A true modern day "character"

[Pat]

Thanks Alan,

Do you have any idea if this pic was taken in the 60´ or 90-00´?

Br,

[AMO]

Look's like odgie to me, the guy's a star

He's got a website now: odgie.com

[Pat]

Thanks AMO,

"Me in the dirt" nice reading
C11G
"The Yorkshire Classic Club Machine Examiner thought it was ‘a reet good bike, lad’, an I had great fun on it until I started beatin their expensive Ariels, then they suddenly decided they’d got this rule they’d forgotten about where Pre-Unit class bikes had to be over 348cc. Draw your own conclusions... "

[davieboy]

Did he used to write for some custom type motorcycle magazines,Back Street Heroes or something like that?
He came north of the border a few years back to the Scottich Classic Motorcycle Racing Club's big trial and scramble at Thornhill in July,maybe 6 or 7 years ago.I never watched the scramble but I rode the trial and seem to remember he was a good rider.
I'm sure I have seen him at the Scottish pre-'65 a few years back.
Definately a character.

[odgie]

Yep, bang to rights on all counts everybody - guilty as charged.....

[davieboy]

odgie, on Mar 2 2009, 09:35 PM, said:

Yep, bang to rights on all counts everybody - guilty as charged.....

When are you coming north of the border to visit us again?
Are you still writing?

[odgie]

I write for 100% Biker, Real Classic (by far the very best classic bike mag you'll ever read), plus a bit for Custom Car and a couple of American hotrod mags. Well, it all beats working for a living......

Doubt I'll be up't north anytime soon though unfortunately. I gave up scrambling after wreckin me knee (snapped the cruciate ligament in that muddy slot at a scramble near Edinburgh a few years ago - but two ops later it's cool now though), still trials riding (just got a very nice 1932 JAP-powered girder forked OK-Supreme, won the Rigid class first time out last weekend), but do a lot of hotrodding and nostalgia drag racing now, plus a few VMCC runs (our kid's secretary or our local group). So too many busy weekends, not enough Odgie to go round.....

[GrahamJayzee]

Odgie,

Love your website! Breath of fresh air in this politically correct age!

Graham

[AMCQ46]

Odgie,
I have to agree with Graham on your website mate......one in the eye for all the PC brigade, and great fun to read.

.........it took me back to my mispent youth, and then made me realise that I clearly wasnt trying hard enough!

Did you also do a couple of articles in Trail Bike Magazine many years ago, I have a dim recolection of a BSA scrambler with a cracked piston

[Pat]

Odgie,
A great site, thanks for a lot of fun reading.

Pat

[davieboy]

Pat, on Mar 3 2009, 07:26 PM, said:

Odgie,
A great site, thanks for a lot of fun reading.

Pat

Got to agree,great site.