Kwaka Mach 111 racing pics from 1970

[nudemetalz]

Here's a newspaper clipping from when he won a race.
Great things to keep,

[Biff]

Brilliant photos mate. You're old man must have been one brave/skilled rider to tame one of those beasties.

[nudemetalz]

Cheers, Im reckon so !!

One of my ambitions is to restore a Mach111 in the same red/white colour schemes as his.


I'll scan and post more pics when I get home tonight.
I have more YR-5 pics too.

Cheers
Chris

[Sniper]

Those are FANTASTIC pics Chris. And as Motu said, those are great memories to have of your dad.

[nudemetalz]

Cheers, Sniper.

I'm just happy I can share these priceless pics with my fellow forumites, to those who really appreciate the rarity of these.

[pyrocam]

I can rescan them at a higher resolution and email to you if you like.
Is there a kb limit for posting pics here ?

its a size limit. 800x600 I think.

im running 1280x1024 so anything nearabouts that I can always doctor up.
ill pm you my email cos I dont want spams. cheers.

(fake edit: or you can zip it and post up to 4mb I think)

[nudemetalz]

Done deal !!

If anyone else here wants copies at higher res I'd be glad to share.

Cheers
Chris

[Kickaha]

Cheers
Chris

Chris? you used to work at Wormalds was it? raced a RS125 crashed it at the sweeper and did a bit of damge to yourself?

[Rhino]

I'm not sure, sorry. Dad (Clint Cattermole) died in 1991., so I really treasure these pics.
He raced against Owen Galbraith and Warren Guy (who also died a couple of weeks ago).

Cheers
Chris

Hi Chris,

I raced at Ruapuna over the period 1969-1972 in the 125, 250 and 350 production bike classes. When I saw the first photo, I thoght that was Clint. From memory, he was the first to race a Mach 111 at Ruapuna.

When i first started, Owen was racing an Ariel Arrow 250cc two stroke twin. It didn't have much straight line speed, but he was very smooth and quick around corners. I also remember him racing an H1 later.

Very sad to hear that Warren has passed away. I knew him very well in the 70's.

If you have any photos with bike 97 (probably in the background) that was me.

[nudemetalz]

Hey Terry, (oops, I mean Warwick !!)

Nearly right, used to work at Fuelquip Services in Woolston. Was semi-sponsored by them and yes, I smashed my wrist up big-time (had to have one of those external braces) after doing a nasty high-side trying to stay ahead of a CBR and FZR 400 !!!!.
That sort of ended my racing as my wrist is basically not as good now.

Cheers
Chris

[nudemetalz]

Hi Chris,

I raced at Ruapuna over the period 1969-1972 in the 125, 250 and 350 production bike classes. When I saw the first photo, I thoght that was Clint. From memory, he was the first to race a Mach 111 at Ruapuna.

When i first started, Owen was racing an Ariel Arrow 250cc two stroke twin. It didn't have much straight line speed, but he was very smooth and quick around corners. I also remember him racing an H1 later.

Very sad to hear that Warren has passed away. I knew him very well in the 70's.

If you have any photos with bike 97 (probably in the background) that was me.

Thats really cool, Rhino, glad to meet people who knew him. He used to race his Mach111 against other bikes around the Cathedral Square in the old days when you could go all the way around and they used to see who could do it the fastest until someone fell off. Then they left it for 10 minutes and started up all over again !!!!

Yes Warren was great. He did a lot for organising racing at Ruapuna. I never got to his funeral unfortunately as my Grandad died the same day as him.
Ah, such is life.

I'll have to dig out more albums and check out any more racing pics.

Cheers
Chris

[riffer]

Hi Chris.

Thanks for posting these great pictures. I could almost smell the Castrol R.

Some of my favourite early memories are of my dad dragging me around the races at Gracefield. He wasn't a racer, but was an avid rider.

It's funny - now I drag my boy along to the buckets and watch the racing with him on the telly, and while he's definitely heading the motocross way - Ben Townley has now replaced Valentino Rossi as his hero - he's definitely getting hooked on the two wheels way of life.

Memories like these are so precious - thanks for sharing with us.

[nudemetalz]

You're welcome, Riffer.

When I started out riding at 12, I learnt on a CR-80 (talk about being chucked in the deep end !!) and Dad came out and watched me race.
It was great having that support.

Here's me at 12 years old in 1982, never ridden a motorcycle before being taught what lever does what, while the neighbours are learning how noisy a motocross bike is !!!

Cheers
Chris

[diesel pig]

Great photos, Seeing Ruapuna old school style is interesting and the riding gear one of those jokers is wearing what looks like cotton overalls! The newspaper cutting is cool too gives a sense of history to the pics, your dad must of been a good rider beating the likes of Dale Wylie a riders name I have herd bandy about before when people have talked of really good local riders from back when

[nudemetalz]

Thanks, yes he was quite good in his day, pity he never followed through with it.

Hey, tell me,...your avatar is mighty familiar....I remember making that for the bucket-racing back in ChCh in the early 90's. Perhaps we know each other..??!!