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    Thread: Early Morning Practice - A Piece of Written Nostalgia
Post: RE: Early Morning Practice - A Piece of Written No...

What a shame the morning practices have gone. It was a chance to test the bike and build a rhythm to the lap. The evenings were the time to really have go. Scrutineering was brilliant all of us sadist...
andyr Jokes, Stories etc 17 56,413 04-03-2010, 08:53 AM
    Thread: So they should it was a disgrace
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(16-12-2009, 05:07 PM)Gstarron Wrote: It is winter time.. easy to get a little bit of "cabin fever.." All I know, is that I look at ALL the IOM (TT Course) races as: man (or woman), and machine A...
andyr Manx Grand Prix & Former Classic TT 67 131,601 17-12-2009, 09:06 AM
    Thread: So they should it was a disgrace
Post: RE: So they should it was a disgrace

I'm afraid I've misled everyone and thanks to a very amicable phone call from Brian Richards I need to eat humble pie! Bill Swallow rode Brian's[/u] Petty Manx in 500cc form to finish second in the 19...
andyr Manx Grand Prix & Former Classic TT 67 131,601 13-11-2009, 07:36 PM
    Thread: So they should it was a disgrace
Post: RE: So they should it was a disgrace

David's comments ring very true to me. I'm not wealthy and I was terrified of dropping a bike of that value. I'm sure it inhibited me the few times I raced it. It didn't steer itself as naturally as t...
andyr Manx Grand Prix & Former Classic TT 67 131,601 12-11-2009, 05:34 PM
    Thread: So they should it was a disgrace
Post: RE: So they should it was a disgrace

(10-11-2009, 02:44 PM)smokey125 Wrote: The rules now don’t really state anything other than it must be of a type used in the period. They used to state that “factory or works” replicas weren’t allow...
andyr Manx Grand Prix & Former Classic TT 67 131,601 10-11-2009, 05:33 PM
    Thread: So they should it was a disgrace
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[/align][/b][b][align=left] (10-11-2009, 10:59 AM)Will Loder Wrote: Alan's lap was following the Paton yes. He said that in lots of places Ryan was holding him up through the corners, but it did giv...
andyr Manx Grand Prix & Former Classic TT 67 131,601 10-11-2009, 11:23 AM
    Thread: So they should it was a disgrace
Post: RE: So they should it was a disgrace

Thanks for the kind words posted here. I was offered the Paton by a very generous sponsor and at my age could'nt turn the offer down. I'd be the first to admit that our Paton was 'too fast for rider' ...
andyr Manx Grand Prix & Former Classic TT 67 131,601 27-10-2009, 05:24 PM