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    Steve Roberts Inducted into Hall Of Fame


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    Quote Originally Posted by eelracing View Post
    had to laugh when he was asked why he did all this stuff, 'to pay the bills' was his reply, shows you the modesty of the man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eelracing View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    had to laugh when he was asked why he did all this stuff, 'to pay the bills' was his reply, shows you the modesty of the man.
    He's all class. Just like his work.

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    One of my regrets is not keeping possibly the first speedway sidecar that Steve Roberts built.
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    Quote Originally Posted by old slider View Post
    One of my regrets is not keeping possibly the first speedway sidecar that Steve Roberts built.
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    Cool as fuck mate!

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    Quote Originally Posted by old slider View Post
    One of my regrets is not keeping possibly the first speedway sidecar that Steve Roberts built.
    any clues on where it is now? are they ABE wheels or something? from memory Steve also built a monocoque three wheeler maybe for Kim Steadman?
    one also wonders what ever happened to the monocoque TR500 chassis he built for Keith Turner in 1972

    how many peoploe wished they'd kept something, reality time space and money means it's go to go to fund the next mission

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    Quote Originally Posted by old slider View Post
    One of my regrets is not keeping possibly the first speedway sidecar that Steve Roberts built.
    That chair is interesting on so many levels - as a lot of his work is. I'd pick front and rear wheels as yamaha - 18's of course.
    The bars look like the prototypes for the Warlord....

    If the Turner monocoque got overseas, best to assume it's scrapped. Unwanted stuff just got left behind from what I've been told.

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    I tried a few times to track it down, I stupidly sold it in 81/82?, Don Cosford the original owner was keen to see it kept on the track racing, he came round home and said (coerced) that he had a keen young fella who wanted it, I have been told his name was possibly Hamish Lothian, I asked if he still had it via the speedway site on FB, but no response, but have heard it was cut up and had been altered quite a bit to accommodate a Suzuki power plant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    I'd pick front and rear wheels as yamaha - 18's of course.
    the spokes have a lot of taper on them, way more than a yamaha, also a sohc motor, if they were building a chair of the yamaha wheel era surely they would've used a dohc donk?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    the spokes have a lot of taper on them, way more than a yamaha, also a sohc motor, if they were building a chair of the yamaha wheel era surely they would've used a dohc donk?
    You may be right - the only alternatives I can think of would be pommy CMA wheels.
    The outfit probably came about because Cosford came into possession of a hot CB750 engine and it wasn't competitive in roadracing....

    I still owe Don a bottle of Bourbon for kindly providing a chillybin as a vomit container when i got crook at Manfield.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    You may be right - the only alternatives I can think of would be pommy CMA wheels.
    The outfit probably came about because Cosford came into possession of a hot CB750 engine and it wasn't competitive in roadracing....

    I still owe Don a bottle of Bourbon for kindly providing a chillybin as a vomit container when i got crook at Manfield.....

    From memory, 40 years ago when this chair was built Des Eades (Honda dealership) was Dons major Sponsor, Although Pricey (Allan Price) had a fairly large Motorcycle wrecking business at that time as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    That chair is interesting on so many levels - as a lot of his work is. I'd pick front and rear wheels as yamaha - 18's of course.
    The bars look like the prototypes for the Warlord....

    If the Turner monocoque got overseas, best to assume it's scrapped. Unwanted stuff just got left behind from what I've been told.
    The detail arround the flange by the bead looks Lester
    They made aftermarket wheels for a lot of Hondas 4's.
    pretty sure you would remeber them on bonny TSS or TSX plus some Harleys as std eq.
    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    the spokes have a lot of taper on them, way more than a yamaha, also a sohc motor, if they were building a chair of the yamaha wheel era surely they would've used a dohc donk?


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