clockchange weekend debrief

[Steve Lake]

Saturday was a (literal) washout....but brownie points were earned in abundance.....by amassing just about every type of glue known to man, and spending the day repairing all those things that I have been promising to do for the last 10 years.....bits of china, cupboard knobs, saucepan handles, antique dolls house furnishings!, leaky radiator....etc
Sunday....well...brilliant....wall to wall sunshine, completely massacred a big beech hedge with my chain saw, it was shading the veggy patch and my courgettes were a disgrace last year ( so SWMBO says), chopped up and stored another ton of wood for next winter.... (two more tons and I'll be ok for all of next winter......yipee)......repaired pond liner.....much to the annoyance of the Great Crested Newts, who are about to start their courtship display, cleaned and disinfected greenhouse....and finished off pruning the fruit trees.....thats about it.....

not a jot of biking stuff....but will be putting Number 4 to rights this week, before putting up on Ebay.
pip pip

[Bill Rutter]

Terry Lee and I popped over to Somerset from West Sussex to visit Colin Hilliard and his wife Ann who, as most of you are aware, is in a Taunton hospital after suffering a stroke. It was excellent to see Ann in such good spirits (I really didn't think that Ann would be so upbeat). We spent a nice couple of hours or so there then, via some nice sightseeing with commentary from Colin, headed back to Martock for an evening in the White Hart.....lovely.
                                                                               Another highlight was Colin's purchase of one of those TV's that take up the whole living room (he says it's for Ann's benefit when she comes home but, by coincidence, it was bought on the same weekend of the year's first Formula 1 GP...hmmm) It is BIG!!! Oh...and bloody heavy to boot!
All in all, a very nice weekend spent in good company although it was a bit worrying to hear Colin say that he will probably have to sell his bike to provide the funds to alter his house to accomodate Ann's access to the garden etc. He has already started to offload some kit (to Terry). I hope it doesn't come to that.

[andy230]

Steve.

No 4 is lovely little bike.  Sadly, I'm not in the market!  However, in the garage this weekend I found the fixing kit for you blue racer's fairing.  Sorry bout that!!

I'll send it on up to you.  Can you drop me a line with your address?

cheers mate

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[guest40]

I went for a ride with the club to a place called Seabird, just north of Perth WA. Sorry guys, I went on the Silverwing.
http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd165/Ulysses-WA/Seabird09/
 Weather was fine and a comfortable mid 20's

[Bruce]

I went on Sunday to a local motorcycle show at Wistanstow about 7 miles from where I live very cold first thing but warmer later .Below is a picture of The Norton with another famous rider next to it Chris Vincent he used to race combinations.

[squirrelciv]

Only a little bit bikey this weekend, and that wasn't a very pleasant bikey bit at that. 

Mr SteveH and I sucessfully completed the Abergavenny 3 peak challenge walk on Saturday. A great day and there was no way Steve could escape me prattling on about my bike for 10 hours

Sadly, I picked up a puncture on my way home whilst out on the 'Heads of the Valley' road. Police turned up whilst i was waiting for the AA to move me on. Seems passing motorists were upset by the sight of me lying on the grass by my bike. They thought I might have come off. No bugger stopped mind, just reported me for (apparently) crashing in a manner to cause offence. Cops made me move the bike to where there was a small fence come barrier and told me if I wanted to lie down (to keep out the wind) I'd have to do it there! Charming!

Sunday was spent watching my No1 son play his first compeditive game of Rugby followed by hunting round for a tyre shop who would fix my puncture.

All fixed now.

[robG]

Well done Bruce , Nice to see Chris Vincent in such famous company  

Rob .

[Steve Lake]

Ahhh, fantastic....one of my all time heroes is Chris Vincent......he was racing a Beeza the same time as i was blatting about the countryside on a gold flash outfit.....his was the first british outfit to really take the race to the german invasion.....well ok..... there was pip harris and bill boddice....and of course the family hanks.....all superstars of the chariots....but Chris stood out i think.

[002]

A few years ago there was another Chris Vincent racing outfits in some Classic Meets.
This one was Tear Arsing around quite successfully on a Panther of all things.

Jethro

[guest7]

Here's THE Chris Vincent:


I have a piccy here of the other one with his Panther's sidecar wheel about a metre in the air, but without looking in every copy of classic racer (and I've got lots of 'em) I don't suppose I could find it.

GC

[Steve Lake]

Now THATS racing!.....and believe it or not....that outfit was at cadwell last year....bluddy magic

bit more info here http://www.motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/classic_bikes/1949-norton-500-sidecar.php

pip pip

[Steve Lake]

Nice (if long) article By Colin Seeley, including a eulogy for Florian Camathias.... good read


http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7sem6APL70QC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=chris+vincent+racer&source=bl&ots=x9t3lk3cuc&sig=3QrKMX8thVA6J0blueW-lPX3pV0&hl=en&ei=OG7SSenqC9i6jAeo3I3tBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA3,M1

[Steve Lake]

wots your email addy Andy....i lost it along with my laptop.....doh

[andy230]

wots your email addy Andy....i lost it along with my laptop.....doh

sent you an email

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