johnSbantam
Number of posts : 259
Localisation : New Zealand
Registration date : 2006-12-01
 | Subject: BRC transfers and emblems  Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:57 pm | |
| Some might find a good home and use for these ?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251418589946&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:GB:3160 | |
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john bass
Number of posts : 1748
Age : 94
Localisation : Bensberg, Germany
Registration date : 2006-12-06
| | Subject: The Prices...? Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:22 am | |
| Interesting John!
The prices, of course had me cringing but we OAPs must adjust to the times. A Bantam headlamp WITH RIM -- now there´s a thing! for only 9.99´.... Wow!
A young Teddy Boy sold me a whole Bantam grass-track racer for a fiver in 1957. Probably nicked, of course, but a decade later I wished I´d kept it when a whole Bantam from a Breaker cost me 15 quid.
It was not the difference of costs that had me writing this. It was WHEN I wonder WAS THE BEST TIME FOR BANTAM RACING? It was RACING ON THE CHEAP and both my Bantams were very-low-cost and in spite of the odds against it I did enjoy racing them. In the Intermediate class, of course.
Would that BEST BANTAM RACING ERA be the first decade: 1961 -- 71 when Roy bacon and Fred Launchbury were dominant; or when I was riding Icarus-1 and 2 and sometimes racing when they both went well ... `68 -- 74 time; or in Ned´s time as Chairman when he had a super BRC Magazine, reporting race meetings and Centre News*** -- Or is it now...???
Just something to think about when race-meeting reports are non-existent ...
Cheers!
*** we did those too with our Newsletter ... but not quite so splendiferously as Ned´s magazine.... | |
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