Fabulous photos, any of any Holden sponsored Ossa's from previous years. I'm sure Russ Kerridge rode one in 82.
It'll take me back to my old 250 ' Golden Jubilee' model!
Hi jonboy,
At the last estimate there are more than 100,000 images in the archive with the vast majority never having been published before.
But getting them all out into public view is a monumental task, and just plonking images with no explanation seems to me to achieve very little - so I devised Off Road Revue as a digital magazine, available exclusively on this website, and there I am publishing as many images of interest to people as I can.
The 'rules' are quite simple - there is a simple payment of £12 a year which covers the software licence fee and gives you instant access to all the back copies (at no extra cost - and there are 50 of them so far - that's getting towards 4000 pages and not one wasted on advertising). When you are a member you can request a search for any rider or any particular machine, etc, in the massive archive and, if we have a suitable image - you can have a copy for free.
We cover ALL offroad motorcycle sports with comprehensively illustrated reports of MOST classic current events - we published large images of every competitor in the 2015 Pre-65 Scottish - no one else did.................
Finally, yes there are images of a lot of OSSAs when Holden held the franchise - so why not join in and see for yourself.
Defo Gerald Richardson, check the other post, Yamaha help, no 18 was Gerald.
Well spotted jonboy, yes it was when I checked the results - mine is a handwritten copy and at first glance the number looked like '15' but a closer look spotted my mistake.
Fun, isn't it - but the serious side is that it will all help my next pictorial book which will be a fully illustrated history of the first - and still the best in my opinion - one-day trial in the world.
A further trawl through the archive revealed why Gerald was in trouble on the Yam - his chain had come off.
Looks like one of the Richardson brothers, possibly Gerald.
Sorry snapper, Gerald was riding number 18 in 1986 and won the Kart House Trophy, donated by my good friend Barry Robinson, for achieving sixth place in 1986, his Yamaha was registered ***3**J.
Finally, as a footnote to this particular posting, here is an image of Tony Scarlett on his way to winning the 1986 Scott trial, losing 7 on time and just 63 on observation. Colin Ward picked up the Eddie Flintoff Trophy for being the best on time that year but nobody else matched Tony Scarlett on observation.
The film edge reference is misleading - but I can't explain why at this stage, but I started trawling through the 1986 Scott images in the archive (and there are lots) and found this one, which is right bike, right helmet and right riding number.
So problem solved - it is Chris Myers in the 1986 Scott trial - and the fact that number 125 appears to have caught up with him is probably why he didn't appear in the results in 1986.
So thanks for all your help - and now I definitely have enough material for a full photofeature of 1986 in ORRe very shortly.
Enjoy - and watch this space, there are still over a thousand images to be correctly identified from that era...........
Once you start down this detective trail, it gets ever more interesting! First I looked for riders in my Scott archives who had ridden on the and '1' plate - that took me to the shot below, which is from the 1983 event - so that ties down the year because the and 'lost' negative has the same date coding on the film side. So we now have a year.
But the and '1' is misleading, so I reckon it must be the first digit of a rider between '10 - and 19', so now I can widen the hunt.
In the meantime if anyone has a 1983 entry list that they can copy for me, then I have stacks of images and could easily turn them into a photofeature of 30 or 40 riders in the digital magazine on the 1983 Scott trial.
Meanwhile, enjoy.
Having started to look into the 1983 event, I can now confirm the rider on the '1' plate is, of course, John Reynolds, on his way to picking up the Folbigg Cup for making fourth best performance dropping 18 on time and 91 on observation.
Also a certain R J Sunter was part of no less than two award winning teams, the Scott Trophy for best performance by three members on the same make (Montesa that year) as well as the Eric Myers Trophy as a member of the best Richmond team on the same make.
This definitely looks like a photofeature opportunity for ORRe!
Another 'lost' image needing help with identification. We think it looks very much like a Red Rose trial, with Jim Sandiford supported 'Montesa' bibs - and probably early 1970s.
Can anyone confirm the rider's identity - or any Yamaha expert point us to the likely year?
A duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of beer and a ham sandwich.
The barman looks at him and says,
"Hang on! You're a duck."
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Exclaims the barman.
"I see your ears are working, too,"
Says the duck.
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"It's just we don't get many ducks in this pub.. What are you doing round this way?"
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"I'm a plasterer."
The flabbergasted barman cannot believe the duck and wants to learn more, but takes the hint when the duck pulls out a newspaper from his bag and proceeds to read it.
So, the duck reads his paper, drinks his beer, eats his sandwich, bids the barman good day and leaves.
The same thing happens for two weeks.
Then one day the circus comes to town.
The ringmaster comes into the pub for a pint and the barman says to him
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"Get him to give me a call."
So the next day when the duck comes into the pub the barman says,
"Hey Mr. Duck, I reckon I can line you up with a top job, paying really good money."
"I'm always looking for the next job," Says the duck."Where is it?"
"At the circus,"Says the barman.
"The circus?"Repeats the duck.
"That's right,"Replies the barman.
"The circus?" The duck asks again, "with the big tent?"
"Yeah," the barman replies.
"With all the animals who live in cages, and performers who live in caravans?" says the duck.
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"And the tent has canvas sides and a big canvas roof with a hole in the middle?" persists the duck.
"That's right!" says the barman.
The duck shakes his head in amazement, and says .. . ....... .
"What the hell would they want with a plasterer??!"
Still waiting to be sorted in the archive are various piles of negatives which have become detached from their original packets of strips of negatives + entry list + result, which means I cannot correctly caption them with rider or year, for example, so I propose to throw the challenge out to all our armchair sleuths, please does anybody know who, what or where this might be..........
There are literally hundreds waiting to be identified covering most makes over a long period.
We think this is Peter Gaunt and the snow could well be from an Eboracum Colonial trial, the Kwacker looks mid-1970s - can anybody throw some light?
I agree, I wondered if it was Paul - I didn't realise his front number plate arrangement was different - but I do know several riders who have been warned, over the years, by police querying whether the numbers on cross mounted plates were correctly sized.
Both systems infinitely better then the meat cleaver blade that faced you if you ever went over the bars on the "correctly" placed number plates often supplied........
Still waiting to be sorted in the archive are various piles of negatives which have become detached from their original packets of strips of negatives + entry list + result, which means I cannot correctly caption them with rider or year, for example, so I propose to throw the challenge out to all our armchair sleuths, please does anybody know who, what or where this might be..........
There are literally hundreds waiting to be identified covering most makes over a long period.
Still waiting to be sorted in the archive are various piles of negatives which have become detached from their original packets of strips of negatives + entry list + result, which means I cannot correctly caption them with rider or year, for example, so I propose to throw the challenge out to all our armchair sleuths, please does anybody know who, what or where this might be..........
There are literally hundreds waiting to be identified covering most makes over a long period.
The first details of the new ownership were made public yesterday and seem to be entirely positive - the smelter itself is due for refurbishment and there are longer term plans to add a steel reclamation module to the unit in order to improve the earning power.
Several community linked schemes for developing the land are apparently being discussed, with distinct mention of the total local income generation potential due to the tourism associated with the various sporting activities already sponsored in the Lochaber area - and always remember the change of ownership of such a large concern rarely changes any of the local senior personnel, who will therefore still be there, helping the trial as always.
If you are interested in checking just what actual Montesa models looked like in action thirty years and more ago, then we have plenty of previously unpublished photographs waiting for you in our digital magazine, 'ORRe'.
Better yet, if that is back in 'your Dad's days' then how about choosing a year's supply for him - 'cos you don't just get a year - you get instant access to all FIFTY back copies at no extra charge...
Whatever, enjoy.
Here is John Pattinson in action over thirty years back.............
If you would like to study photographs of Bultacos taken in the 1980s, pictures that haver never been published before, then our digital magazine 'ORRe' is the place to look.
There you will find pictures like John Reynolds riding in the 1983 Scott trial on his Appleyard Bultaco.
If you like to see historic photos of Suzuki bikes in action, like this one of Brian Hutchinson riding in an Eboracum Colonial trial, that has never been published before, then our digital magazine 'ORRe' is the place to look.
A man goes into a doctor's office feeling a little ill.
The doctor checks him over and says, 'Sorry, I have some bad news, you have Yellow 24, a really nasty virus.
It's called Yellow 24 because it turns your blood yellow and you usually only have 24 hours to live.
There's no known cure so just go home and enjoy your final precious moments on earth. So he trudges home to his wife and breaks the news.
Distraught, she asks him to go to the bingo with her that evening as he's never been there with her before.
They arrive at the bingo and with his first card he gets four corners and wins $35. Then, with the same card, he gets a line and wins $320 Then he gets the full house and wins $5000. Then the National Game comes up and he wins that too getting $780,000.
The bingo caller gets him up on stage and says,
'Son, I've been here 20 years and I've never seen anyone win four corners, a line, the full-house and the National Game on the same card. You must be the luckiest ******* on Earth!'
'Lucky?' he screamed. 'Lucky? I'll have you know I've got Yellow 24'.
'Blimey,' says the bingo caller. 'You've won the meat raffle as well!!!
For some years the Feldom Range has enjoyed world fame as a gathering point for motorcycles and riders intent on self harm. What many do not know is that it is also the scene of an annual Friday banquet for slaves of Richmond Motor Club who begin to serve their penances almost before dawn of the day before the Scott Trial, many leagues are walked, carrying signs, banners and a miscellany of flags.
The pristine 'lawns' are trimmed before the big day. But you ask what of the banquet? A closely guarded secret entailing great planning and control. An arrangement with Squire Ken Wallis and a nameless Richmond chippy has furnished fish and chip meals for the workers, with, be it noted, all the condiments required and even knives and forks.
The silk embroidered table clothes are on a promise for 2017. To slake the thirst of the slaves, ale and other medicinal drinks are procured.
There is a formality of etiquette in as much as the very senior officials have pride of place at the large table and also the best seats in the house.
There are Press individuals present hoping for any freebies thrown in their direction (and because the odour of that many fish and chips permeates as far as Orgate Falls).
One should note that membership of the Feldom Range Social Club is strictly controlled and therefore the names of any of the participants not known to the Police Gazette are safeguarded by sworn secrecy - so keep it under your hat................
Lost In The 1986 Scott.....
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Sadly I have neither results or an entry list for the '82 Scott - but this is one of the interesting OSSAs in that event - does that help?
Enjoy.