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A few more photos that I've scanned off of old neg's lately with some interesting lack of spectator safety measures from a race meet in the late '70s. Obviously the crowds had a little more common sense and respect for competitors than they do today as I don't remember any real problems or casualties.
I remember the sidecars getting pretty loose, but that hasn't changed
Where, when, who ?
Comfortably Different
Where were those taken ?
Ultimate keyboard Warrior
I see Wanganui
Comfortably numb
Well done that manOriginally Posted by Headbanger
Cemetry Circuit Boxing Day 1978 by my reckoning.
Highway Biker
Some classic bikes in those pics!! They probably rode them during the week, took the lights off, put a number on and raced. Great leathers and helmets too.....aaaaah the good old days!
In the riders seat
In the early Nineties the same lack of spectator safety measures was evident at the New Brighton street races
The odd fuckwit would wander across the track while the races were on
How long has Wanganui been fenced for?
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
Hardcore Biker
Back in those days (free entry to)I was just a kid and from memory i think the outside of most corners were only chickenwired at best.I remember even sitting on the inside curb,feet in the gutter and watching Croz,Stu Avant and co,probably even a young Robert Holden come roaring around the first corner.
But i think by the early to mid 80's they started to push the spectators back more and more.
But great to see the old photo's
Comfortably numb
Probably 1980 Cemetry Circuit. #26 on the Callender Motorcycles Suzuki is the late John Marsh, a whiz at exhaust design (Piper chambers?)
Homo Sapiens Vulgaris
I suspect the following would have been said at the race briefing:
If you crash - try and aim for a hay bale.
It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat
In the riders seat
I'd say probably 83ish going by what looks like a 16 inch wheel in the Katana
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
Comfortably numb
You got that right and while I was checking got a few names. 2nd from left is Hiscock, next two feature Neil Looney then John Marsh.
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The first photo in post #8 is Pat Hennan. The last one is Glen Williams.
NEDWN VIII
Number 40 (pic 5 post 1) with 2ZM in the Leathers? Dave Hiscock.A few more photos that I've scanned off of old neg's lately with some interesting lack of spectator safety measures from a race meet in the late '70s. Obviously the crowds had a little more common sense and respect for competitors than they do today as I don't remember any real problems or casualties.
I remember the sidecars getting pretty loose, but that hasn't changed
Where, when, who ?
He was the first resident kiwi to be granted a non-numeral racing number.
2ZM was a Radio sponsor.
NEDWN VIII
Hiscock again (H)
You can just make out the last few letters on his back, and Wellington MC on the sleeves is give away.
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And Stu Avant being tailed by Neil in photo #3.
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