What have you raced? And when?

Subject: What have you raced? And when? Sat Feb 27, 2010 4:17 am

Start your lists! this should be interesting remember to put when?

Subject: Mike ... Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:52 am

Hi Mike!
Are you including scrambles, dirt & grass track -- or is the theme only road racing?
Cheers!
JayBee.

Subject: Re: What have you raced? And when? Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:41 am

Yes John - why not.....

Subject: Re: What have you raced? And when? Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:48 pm

Right here we go again:
1973 - My own and Kieth Webb's 125 Bantams
1974 - As Above
1975 - Ex Bill lawrence 250 Greeves Silverstone and Ron Curtis' Bantam
1976 - 350 TSS Bultaco
1977 - Ex Roger Abbott Bantam and Mick Bridges Bantam
1978 - Ex Roger Abbott Bantam and a Ted Smith Bantam
1979 - Ex Tony Lockwood RD250 Yamaha Proddy
1980 - Ex Colin Pole X7 Suzuki 250 Proddy
1981 - Ex Hans Hart 250 TZ E/F
1982 - Ex John Heselwood 999 Rickman Yoshimura Kawasaki F1 and partnered Mick Potter on his 250 LC yamaha Proddy at the West Raynham endurance race.
1983 - 999 P&M Yoshimura Kawasaki F1

Subject: Own -- hmmm! -- Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:05 pm

Got in a muddle with the titles on here so I´ve deleted and started again...
...
First racing motorcycle was a 1951 350cc Enfield Bullet Scramber. Bought from Hadler´s Chelmsford as the "real thing for scrambling".
It was utter rubbish. Rear suspension units collapsed, the oil pump fouled up and the Babbit-metal big-end failed...
Mid fifties: made a Bitza 250 for Grass track: 1937 AJS (250) engine, Norton gear box, Velocette MAC frame into which I grafted an Ariel swinging-arm, front forks were Matchless, front wheel Ariel and rear wheel was Norton. Didn´t know what to call it and it ended up as `Bass-terd´... Using Methanol fuel and 10.1 CR it was competitive and I got some good races out of it.
Bought a Bantam 125 Grasstracker, for a fiver, which just didn´t steer and after being thrown off several times sold it for a tenner.
Fitted Tom O´Connor´s (Rayleigh Speedway Captain´s ) ex-4-Stud, Speedway engine (cost 75 quid back in the 50´s...) into the Enfield Bullet and with AMC rear units had some good results on grass and practice on Speedway circuits. Was the "Jelly Machine" because of the 350 frame harbouring the 500 JAP with 16:1 compression ratio using Victor Martin
Dirt-Track (Meth...) fuel... Dealer in Maldon offered me his 350 and 500cc Hagons for the 1960 season which I turned down in favour of taking up a State Technical Scholarship and studying full-time --- There followed 9 years of study, marriage and domestication with 2 kids ...
Borrowed Hagon Grassers for more grass track racing and speedway
practice -- and often used track spares at Hackney and Rye House.
...
First Bantam, Icarus-1, racer was the work of three of us, Derek Neil (Colin Neil´s brother) for engine, Les White all turning and machining and me as bicycle parts ... Les found the engine in a pile of junk in an Essex field. Free Cadmium plating of the frame (after welding the necessary bits...etc...) was by courtesey of some mechanics in Leyland Motors Ltd who were keen club racers... Continetal Sports front tyre and Dunlop roadster rear to start with....
Icarus-2 was made for 40quid -- I had the CR gears already... Never got it to be reliable... it would rev to 11500 and go well fior a few laps before going pooF! -- Experimented with "Centre-Point Steering" which Wobbleyman reckoned was done to kill him...
Andy Boyle lent me ABS 250 to race and after getting it sorted in
`72 had some good rides in `73 but ambition took over and I slipped off to Germany-Canada in ´74...
...
So thinking about it I only ever owned ONE pukka (shop bought)
MC racer: that awful 350 Enfield Bullet --- all the rest were BITZAS.
...
Cheers!
JayBee.

Cheers!
John-Boy!

Subject: Re: What have you raced? And when? Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:57 am

Think i've got em all :-

1982-84 Ex Len Gollings Bantam 50/56 then fitted with ex Steve Chambers 58/52.
1983 Royal Enfield GT Contential
1985-present SMS Bantam 001 ex Pete Styles
1985-95 SMS Bantam 002 ex Ned Quiery
1986 Honda MT125
1987 Honda RS125W Mk4
1993-94 TOMIC 200
2001 Triumph Tiger Cub
2001? Andy Mouldens Bantam
2003 Norton Manx 350
2005 Jimmys Launchbury Rep Bantam 175
2005 Ian Scutts SMS Bantam 005
2005 ET Triumph T100 670cc
2006-present SMS 003 Bantam
2006 Scott Flying Squirell 640cc
2006 Teds 125 Bantam
2006 Jimmys SMS 006 Bantam 175
2007 Norton/Matchless G80CS
2007 Paul Djurassi's Rapid Bantam 125
2009 Seeley G50 MK3
2009 Norton/AJS 7R

Mike

Subject: Owning bikes Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:07 pm

That´s impressive Mike!
I´ve owned lots of motorbikes and ridden many more that I didn´t own but by heck...
Cheers!

Subject: Re: What have you raced? And when? Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:31 pm

Hi all
not much
1978 H1A 1971 500cc Kawasaki
What a beast was only 18years old and 8st what a handful handled like s--t and went like a rocket and eated pistons my knowledge of two strokes then was not good then lol!

1978 first bantam D3 my first race was, was radlett bike very slow still got in parts hope to rebuild one day

1979 D7 ? 125cc raced till 1982 sit in shed till 2000 wen returned to racing with it. raced till the end of 2003 wen it was sold to steve frayne

2003 till 2007 D7 175cc which was ex dave watkins /ron curtis now raced by my son michael

2007 till now D7 175cc motor build by tom miller frame by me first air born bantam in 2008 to get 12 feet high affraid

rebuild in 2009 to come back to be 1st 175cc to finish in the championship thanks Tom

2010 norton 750CC 16" kneeler lets see what happens Smile

Subject: Bikes raced and when 1st raced Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:28 am

July 1971 - Velocette Venom Clubman MkII - 499cc
October 1971 - Formula Bantam ex John Dixon SE Midland Centre
Assorted borrowed Formula Bantams 1973-1974
August 1974 - Yamaha TZ250A
July 1975 - Yamaha TZ350A
1976? - Brader Maico 125
Aug 1976 - Yamaha TZ250C, ex Bob Towse
July 1977 - Honda MT125 MkII for Read-Titan
1982 - Camber framed TZ350
July 1983 - Formula Bantam ex Max Ridge (basically current bike)
1989 - Honda RS125 88MY

Might be the odd one I cant remember ......

Subject: Re: What have you raced? And when? Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:36 am

Bikes raced and/or practised on :

1973 - 1976 Bantam 125 ( history not known - paid £40 quid for it)
1977 - 1980 Bantam 125 ex Pete Kynersley ex South West Centre BRC
1979 Bantam 125 (John Pearce's - Eastern Centre BRC - borrowed)
1979 Honda MT125 (Andy Lloyd's borrowed)
1980 Yamaha TR2B (borrowed)
2005 Bantam 175 (Djurassi)
2006 - present Bantam 175 (ex Pete Dunne)
2008 Bantam 125 ( Steve Panter's)
2008 Bantam 125 (Andy Checkley's)
2009 - present Bantam 125 (SMS 002) ex Aiden Bent, ex Mike Powell, ex Ned

Chris

Subject: Re: What have you raced? And when? Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:40 am

My list of racing exploits as follows! and I have to say I may well have forgotten a lot (its the old Grey matter you know!).
First Home built 125 long stroke bantam racer 1972/3
Second racer based on a Hibbs rolling chassis and my engine from previous bike.
GT250M production racer (also went to work on it!)
Single cylinder YZ250 racer (didn't last long!)
Brads 50 air cooled (sponsored ride)
Brads 50 watercooled (it tended to sieze on the worst corners!)
Greeves Silverstone (borrowed bike.. my god it was fast!)
AS1 Yamaha racer (pretty crap)
AS3 based Van Dongen Yamaha (desperately unreliable)
Bantam 3 built from a bike from Paul Kean (got a lap record on this!)

After a lot of years lay off. Started again in 2003

The bantam I have now.. base loosely on Di Moulden's chassis.
Rode Djurassi 175
Coombes 125
Bramleys 125 (blue ex-Ted)
Ian Scutts air cooled spare from about 4 years ago)
I am sure there were others...
Alan