As most know, this is family day – so we hope you all are able to spend time with your family.
in weather news, we had a “Snow day” on Sunday, so after doing some shoveling, I settled down and watched the Golf !
! Update today at 4 30am – White over outside!!!
Answer to our Sunday quiz, was Bill Nicholson a great rider from the UK – correct to guess this were Neil Carter from Ontario, and Peter Legrove from Australia. ( Peter is an ex pat and about the same age as me)
Quiz today. Who is this great Lady Trials rider? – Another great Photo by Deryk Wyld.
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Here is a great Neil Sturgeon shot of Trials rider Dan Peace in a UK Enduro last weekend – He obviously had the “Clean” line.
Billy Bolt won the event – he seems to be a roll at the moment. ( Yes he used to ride Trials)
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Here is a nice pic of Roger and his wife at the Canadian Motorcycle Hall of Fame last weekend – He says it all went very well, with a lot of old friends from the Motorcycle World in attendance. Congrats from us all.
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Not Trials – but this is a rare photograph of the very first TT race in 1911 – this is the winner, and the bike was an Indian – might have been the only time an American bike won this prestigious event.
The TT races began in the Isle of Man, because the British Government banned racing on Public roads. The 37 1/3 miles Course has remained the same ever since, except for obvious road upgrades.
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Here is Sammy Miller at the Big London Motorcycle Show last weekend, he is seated on the V8 Moto Guzzi from 1956 – We saw these (two of them) race in the Island in 1957. – We were watching at Sulby Straight that day – and when Dickie Dale, and Bob Brown came past us – the front wheels would come up as they shifted gears – top speed was I believe 130mph. – What a wonderful sound and memory.
The bike behind Sammy, looks like the Norton “Kneeler” which was raced by Ray Amm, from Australia later killed test riding a Suzuki in Japan)
It’s these type of machines that would make the Motorcycle Show worth going to.
(Hard to believe that Sammy is now over 90 years of age)
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