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That was sometimes the best way of taming them......
That was sometimes the best way of taming them......
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To get this back on 'track' I really did used to build motorbike wheels for a living... Talon, some of you may have heard of them......
RobMac":1w061msx said:
To get this back on 'track' I really did used to build motorbike wheels for a living... Talon, some of you may have heard of them......
The talk of Speedway and got me thinking about my old machines, that and I didn't want anyone to think I was full of s**t, well, about this anyway
Up the loft I went digging. It was abit further back in time than I thought
Jamie
DSCN2259 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
DSC_1178 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
Up the loft I went digging. It was abit further back in time than I thought
Jamie
DSCN2259 by Jamie Dyer, on FlickrDSC_1178 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
velomaniac
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Never won a trophy for anything cool in my life nor had anything cool to do with a vehicle. I am unworthy to grovel in your shadows.......
I may not be the quickest these days on my cycles but I was handy with a motor under me
A couple of old dusty boxes with trophies and sashes from racing doesn't really mean much in the end, that's the first time they have been out the box since I came here a long time ago. Its more the memories of a time , place and people it brings back. I wasn't being a big head or anything just that away from this thread someone alluded to the fact I may be embellishing things. I don't need to embellish my m/c days which was most of my life, I raced all forms off road, occasional road and had a workshop full of machines. I was a club racer with various bits of sponshorship at various times, usually just my long term sponsors shop whose classics I rode for the shop. Good gig, work on my bike during the week at the shop, show up on Saturday, practice, show up on Sunday and race the shops bikes. For speedway and dirt track was when I decided I wanted to ride a giant fourstroke and some speedway so went out on my own again and picked up various rides now and again for the speedway guys and for the motorcross series when someone wanted a rider to stand in race a new build etc. The speedway guys I knew from dirt tracking and my ride I used to have for my Friend on the Godden was a sweet thing. He was a race mechanic for years around Europe and helped develop many bikes and had a shed full of old machines. His nephew rode permanently for him in our club and he would often give myself and a friend Brian a ride. He was a magic old guy, he knew exactly what the bike needed by the sound of it. You would pull in the pit area and he would adjust something before you got off or could say anything, top the oil and send you back out for a lap and the thing would be flying. Anyway I am waffling again.
But trophies mean nothing, they are just tangible things to remind me of other times. This one is for third, and while I have done better it just reminds me of a great day and night when I made the final on a slider. we all do cool things and really I was just a club racer with a very big grin. I was happy but really inside I was just thinking, how the f**k did I end up here
Story of my life really
Jamie
A couple of old dusty boxes with trophies and sashes from racing doesn't really mean much in the end, that's the first time they have been out the box since I came here a long time ago. Its more the memories of a time , place and people it brings back. I wasn't being a big head or anything just that away from this thread someone alluded to the fact I may be embellishing things. I don't need to embellish my m/c days which was most of my life, I raced all forms off road, occasional road and had a workshop full of machines. I was a club racer with various bits of sponshorship at various times, usually just my long term sponsors shop whose classics I rode for the shop. Good gig, work on my bike during the week at the shop, show up on Saturday, practice, show up on Sunday and race the shops bikes. For speedway and dirt track was when I decided I wanted to ride a giant fourstroke and some speedway so went out on my own again and picked up various rides now and again for the speedway guys and for the motorcross series when someone wanted a rider to stand in race a new build etc. The speedway guys I knew from dirt tracking and my ride I used to have for my Friend on the Godden was a sweet thing. He was a race mechanic for years around Europe and helped develop many bikes and had a shed full of old machines. His nephew rode permanently for him in our club and he would often give myself and a friend Brian a ride. He was a magic old guy, he knew exactly what the bike needed by the sound of it. You would pull in the pit area and he would adjust something before you got off or could say anything, top the oil and send you back out for a lap and the thing would be flying. Anyway I am waffling again.
But trophies mean nothing, they are just tangible things to remind me of other times. This one is for third, and while I have done better it just reminds me of a great day and night when I made the final on a slider. we all do cool things and really I was just a club racer with a very big grin. I was happy but really inside I was just thinking, how the f**k did I end up here
Story of my life really
Jamie
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'clunk' 'crunch' clang clang rattle rattle rattle
yup, my turn.
http://www.mercedes.gen.in/WP35/mercede ... re-repair/
yup, my turn.
http://www.mercedes.gen.in/WP35/mercede ... re-repair/
