IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971
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All four slides labeled IOM and all four slides dated July 1971... 
any info much obliged!

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[Image: sidecar1.jpg]

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[Image: sidecar2.jpg]

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[Image: sidecar3.jpg]

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[Image: sidecar4.jpg]

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05-01-2019, 05:32 AM
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RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971
I THINK 1&3 looks like the hairpin exit at Mallory park.
2. Signpost corner?
4. ballagh bridge?
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RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971
my hazy memory tells me Pic 1 & 3 is Mallory Hairpin with the white boards on inside, Pic 2 methinks is Creg ny Baa, I used to live up by Signpost don't recall ever seeing the road marked like that at Signpost, Pic 4 Ballaugh Bridge .... sorry - riders, bikes. outfits are a little before my "time" .. really good to see these fab pics and collective history, info, knowledge.
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RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971
1 & 3 are definitely Mallory Park on the hairpin exit. 2 would be Creg Ny Baa and obviously Ballaugh for 4. Pic 4 would be the 750cc sidecar race as denoted by the black plates and it looks like there's a BSA sticker on the fairing. I wonder if it's Peter Sheridan & Philip Smith, both sadly lost in an awful accident at Oulton in 1971. My dad gave them a tow back to the paddock after they broke down in practice and if I remember right, they had a white outfit. They were entered on a BSA in the 1970 750 sidecar TT. Pic 2 is a 500cc outfit (yellow plates) and looking at the colour scheme, I'm thinking it might be the Woodhouse brothers. All this is just guesswork on my part!

I've put a link to this thread on Steve's Place where all the sidecar guys hang out, so maybe we can get a positive ID.
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RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971
Pic 2, yep, looking at it now definitely the creg.
Thinking about it, I don't think Signpost corner ever had road markings like that...but of course I could be wrong... again!!
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RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971
Some info courtesy of Steve's Place:
Pic 1: Bill & Mike Crook - Unity BSA

Pic 2: The number 25 outfit is Eric Parkinson / Roger Osbourne (assuming the shot is from 1971) on a 500cc Crescent

I'll keep checking the other thread and report back!
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RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971
Not sure,but I don't think that's the Crescent 2 stroke,Sticky.Seem to remember it was water cooled which the one in the pic doesn't appear to be.
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RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971
Yes, I can confirm that the Crescent outboard engine, that was used in some motorbikes, was water cooled. I worked in the firm that constructed it. It was a three cylinders two stroke 500cc. There were two models for motorboat racing. One on gasoline and one on methanol for the classes CS and C. The Swede A V Andersson raced his Crescent solo bike in the Senior TT 1969 and he was a DNF.
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