Good searching Husa... The small pic with the two bikes is Tony and Amanda with a GSXR1100 he raced for Bike Clinic - and the GSXR400 which won the first year of F3. The whereabouts of that is known.
The carbon F2 bike was bloody fast when it was sorted. I'd forgotten the name of the guy who was the fiberglass specialist who worked for Tony on that. He was down here in ChCh for a while and I did know him slightly before Tony got him involved. I believe he went to Australia when it all turned to custard.
Best i ever saw the F2 go was the last ever Wigram bike races. They came in a gap between the SI Nationals and there was a very good entry. All - in races of course with individual class winners. Tony won F2 on it - and ran 3rd on the road, against 750's - and the Britten. On the fastest circuit in NZ.
Big doses of nitro of course...The motor was an odd one. Japanese domestic 600 which was a big 400 rather than the export 600 which derived from the 550 family. Never seen another like it.
He'd been offsetting race costs and the development costs of the F2 against advertising for his business. At the end of the first season of F2 with that bike, the IRD caught up with him and it all got cut back severely. There was talk of a development grant for the carbon work - but that went to John Britten.
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