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Welcome to the penultimate page in my motorcycle picture collection. This page consists of all the remaining previously unpublished pictures of competition bikes. |
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The Rebel was a 1200cc Harley Davidson which was quite a novelty at the time. The team are running up the motor on the motorcycle starting rollers which used to be situated in front of the barn from where I took this picture. The rollers are no more and neither is the barn! |
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A David and Goliath situation on the starting rollers - John Cheadle's White Lightnin' was powered by a 350cc 2 stroke engine whereas Rebel, as we have already learned was well over three times the displacement. |
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All I can tell you about this machine is that it was called X-Ray and the picture was taken at the Pod. |
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This is Cees van Dongen's double Honda-powered machine from Holland. Xavier Rincker, also from Holland, tells me that Cees built the bike during the 1974/75 winter and used two CB500 4 cylinder engines. In his first race in 1975 he ran 10.636 seconds. |
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And here is his countryman Jos Smit's Kawasaki-powered Slomotion seen in the Santa Pod pits. |
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Left and right : this was Terry Revill's first go at competition bike, as always it was called The Assassin. It was one of the first comp bikes to use a Japanese 4-cylinder engine.
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Chris Russell was another of the Pro Stock riders to migrate over to Competition Bike and to bring their 4-cylinder lumps with them.
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No details on this machine unfortunately. |
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Another picture of Jos Smit's bike - this 4-cylinder machine wins the prize for the shortest exhaust pipes. |
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This is Martin Hurll's 998cc Honda four banger staging at an NDRC meeting at RNAY Wroughton. |
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No details on these two machines queuing for the starting rollers at Santa Pod although DG 72 may have belonged to Bernie Hepworth. |
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The top picture shows the late Paul Rose's 696cc double Yamaha-powered bike which he called Penny Pincher. |
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Another man chasing power by adding more engines was John Lloyd and Freight Train. |
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This double engined two stroke machine may have been another of Paul Rose's bikes. Shame he didn't put the number on that plate. |
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This is thought to be another of John Cheadle's Yamaha-powered bikes. |
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These four pictures show Tom Quinn's Ghengis Khan which was powered by an 1100cc Kawasaki. In the three shots below it has grown a turbocharger to help things along.
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This is John Cheadle (again!) leaving the line at Snetterton on his dimunitive Yamaha 2-stroke. |
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Graham Duffy's The Predator looks as if it has lost one of its engines in this picture on the left. Hey presto! |
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Kelvin Fagan thinks this bike belonged to Nigel Patrick. |
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This is Mick Hand's Little David which featured a 250cc Honda twin engine taken out to 330cc with a blower added for good measure. It was incredibly fast given its modest displacement and also very noisy. |
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Both Pat Neal and Harry Raikkonen are agreed that this machine was Stefan Reisten's 970cc Honda. Per Bengtsson believes that it was being ridden at this time by his friend Jesper Schoug from Sweden. It was sold to someone in Norway who still runs it. |
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The only Honda 6 cylinder-powered bike I can recall was raced by Cees van Dongen from Holland so this must be it. Xavier Rincker tells me that the bike was built in 1979. |
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No details for DM 21 although I have discovered the M stood for methanol. |
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BC270 was Nigel Patrick's The Drag Specialities Kawasaki which was bored out to 1200cc. |
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This is Jim Challenger's 748cc Kawasaki-powered Poltergeist. |
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CC3 was Ron Hughes' Owain Glyndwr |
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These two pictures of Graham Nash's Rice Burner were taken at Santa Pod on 22 April 1984. |
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Another shot of Rice Burner this |
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This picture was taken at the 2nd Transatlantic Bike Race at Long Marston at the end of July 1983. My thanks to Clive Rooms for providing a scanned copy of the programme but even with that it has proved impossible to identify the rider of this machine. |
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Clive's programme did allow me to identify this funny bike which I caught leaving the line as the Suzuki-powered Jan Smith Power Parts sponsored Pink Panther ridden by Herman Zylstra.
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This is Barry Eastman's bike which is thought to have been called Voyager. |
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Spool forward a while and Barry's bike seems to have come on some. I believe he also changed its name to Tokyo Express. |
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This funny bike was called The Hunger and was pictured at Santa Pod on 22 April 1984. |
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This is Geoff Matthew's 1020cc Honda called Divine Madness in the pits at Blackbushe on 20 May 1984. My thanks to Joe Brooks for providing the correct ID for both bike and rider. |
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This stylish machine was ridden by Danielle Dieudonne from France and was shot at Santa Pod on 22 September 1984. The bike was called La Licorne which Google tells me translates as The Unicorn. |
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Dutchman Rob Janssen rode this machine which was also pictured at the Pod on 22 September 1984. |
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My thanks to Archive contributor Keith Lee for numerous bits of ID information. |
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All material on this site is copyright |
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(First posted 30 September 2011) |
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