You spoiled the fun by taking the header back to urgent when it was cancelled...
Deffo lost some impetus there! Think we should start a new rumour...how about a guaranteed SSDT entry for everyone who donates online?!! That'd get them coming in thick and fast!!
Good on you lot who've already donated....and to those of you still thinking about it, don't worry - it can wait until payday...
For Gawds sake NO!
I want my money back then, imagine if I won the guaranteed entry, I hope you were kidding HL?
I have never entered a trial in my 33 years of trialing that I haven't turned up on the morning to ride, with the exception of illness twice and extremely bad road conditions (4 trials in a row during the 1978/79 season). OK... a couple of times when the bike wasn't running right on the Saturday night and I couldn't rectify the problem in time for Sunday morning!
I have always had the courtesy to phone the event secretary or someone in authority of a club organising a trial to tell them I'm not able to attend.
What is worse is that you have competitors who don't turn up for a trial and ride somewhere else (this used to be a licence revoking offence in my youth, probably still is, should really check my ACU handbook for that, but I'll leave it up to the usual barrack room lawyers!)
As I want to convert my 84 125 Professional to a 156 and then to make it as good as possible. I believe Mike Hann used to do a few mods to these bike and I would love to speak to him direct so I could make the upgrade he recommends. I think he added an extra wieght to the flywheel and remachined the head plus one or two other bits. You can either use my home e-mail address m_pennycook@hotmail.com or reply here would be great.
Thanks
Mike Hann has been out of the motorcycle trade for some years now. I did sell some items on e-bay to his daughter about 12 months ago, some memorabilia that she bought as a birthday present, she said that he had packed up and wasn't as involved nowadays. If I can find the details I will post sometime later. Best person to speak to who is in circulation is in fact Julian Wigg as he did a lot of work on Fantics too, including barrel modifications.
Please don't forget that another two people also died in the crash, one of which was a 6yr old boy.
I have to agree with Kinell, I didn't specifically mention above the fact that McRae family friends, 6 year old Ben Porcelli and 37 year old Graeme Duncan also perished in the accident as I was of course posting about Colin's untimely death. Nonetheless, a tragic event which affects more than just the McRae family.
Just to add a little more information on Colin McRae that is not widely known and will no doubt be of interest on this, a trials website. We all know Colin McRae as being the 1995 World Rally Champion, but he started out his motorsport career as a Scottish trials rider in the then "schoolboy" (now known as youth) ranks.
It was at the instigation of his father Jimmy, who, as a member of the Avon Valley Club was foremost a Scottish scrambles rider who actually came second in the 1969 Scottish ACU Scrambles championship riding a 25cc Y4 AJS, the winner being Roy Black on a Jimmy Morton sponsored Bultaco.
Jimmy McRae realised the benefits of his son Colin riding trials as it was an excellent way to learn about different surfaces and what can happen if you do not read the ground in front of you. There was a really nice photo made very large of Colin riding a 200cc Montesa Cota twinshock, well actually a photo of him picking the bike up having had a big five in a section. It appeared at one of the Scottish Motorcycle Shows not too many years ago. Colin was more than a little embarrased when he called in on his way home and spotted it on display at the McRobert Pavillion at Ingliston that year!
Colin did go on to win the Jack Gow Trophy for the 1981 Scottish Intermediate Trials Championship. Colin maintained an interest in the sport of trials, but never really made a comeback to it, having sampled motocross and latterly some enduros.
Colin as a youth was a member of the Lanarkshire MCC during his trials riding career.
From humble beginnings, but with the aid and assistance of his five times British Open Rally championship winning father, he went on to greater things in the four wheel arena, but that has all been spoken about in various books and publications over the years.
Rest in peace Colin, you have made a lot of Scottish people proud to be Scottish having achieved greatness in the world of motorsport.
Sincerest condolences to Jimmy and his wife Margaret who have not only lost their eldest son but also a grandchild in this terrible accident and of course not least of all to his widow and the rest of the McRae family.
You spoiled the fun by taking the header back to urgent when it was cancelled, wouldn't you have got more dosh in by leaving it the way it was, that would have been much more fun!
Best of luck with your fund-raising, I'm already accounted for and have a great ride as well guys...
This was the year! 1959. L to R: Geoff Parker; Ludo More (A Scotsman, old friend of mine) and Alan Kimber at Gorgie Cattle Market, Edinburgh before the off on the Monday morning...
Hi all can anybody advise me if there is anyway I can upgrade the footresrs on my m80 without cutting off the mounting lugs, is there anything else available ie pursang etc chers Mark
The Spanish lads fit Frontera footrests which are slightly wider than Sherpa rests, I like them and you don't have to start all over again!
Hi t-shock, while I admit to liking bikes kept in standard trim, I am indeed partial to the occasional smarter version, such as your SWM there, very nice indeed. I'm sure I have seen it on here before a while ago. I have been known to get the polishing compounds and mops out on occasion myself, but maybe not so much on a modern bike.
Another bike I admire is the blinged up TLR250 Honda of Nigel Greenwood, that is a very nice and purposeful motorcycle (not for sale!)
The RTL250S was a cutting edge full on competition trials bike made by HRC (Honda Racing Corp). In their day they were almost twice the retail price of comparable bikes from other manufacturers such as Yamaha TY250R etc.
Parts are getting hard to source, in fact many parts are simply unobtainable from Honda sources, although Lewisport in the US dio have some useful items such as piston kits etc.
Many of the normal parts are avaialble as they were shared with other Honda models, you just need to know what you are looking for.
I have about three different parts and maintainance manuals, but many of the parts go from year to year especially the drum brake bikes, with some changes to the later disc brake machines. Some TLM parts are common to the RTL.
Two bikes for $2000 is pretty cheap by anyones standards, I presume they are in fairly rough order then?
Mike Hann Contact Details Please
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My apologies!
Big John