Nominate the greatest Kiwi racer.

[Dave_G]

Hugh Anderson or Ivan Mauger. You don't dominate your respective classes on the world stage without being seriously talented. Honourable mention John Woodley - for several seasons ranked the number one privateer in the 500 GP class, I have no doubts he would have been very successful on a factory machine.

[ElCoyote]

Robbie Dean & Tony Rees need a mention too.
What about chair teams? Leppard and Goodin - lots of titles!!

Tombstone Leppard was indeed a legend

[ElCoyote]

Well, if you're going to mention Bill Wetzel, then you need to include Doug Hemi....

It's going to be difficult to keep this list to 8 or 10.

And yes, Geoff Perry was well on the way to being a star.

Doug Hemi was the nicest guy racing at the time, not necessarily the best but a fantastic guy. Is he still in Wgtn?

[ElCoyote]

Also Bill Wetzel was a runner in the 60s .

Bill was from memory the first person in NZ to race the YDS2 Yamaha, certainly he was first on the beach. After many seizures it finally ran faultlessly on Castrol. Read into that what you will.

[ElCoyote]

Roger Freeth, Robert Holden and Dave Hiscock. Just three of my favourites that used to race in the Castrol Six Hour at Manfield back in the eighties. Along with many others who's names i can't remember at the moment.

Try Alan Collinson and Bill Byber.

[enigma51]

Bruce ansteen should be on the list as well

He has one at least one tt for every year he has entered with exception i think to last year .... or is it this year

[merv]

http://www.graemecrosby.com

Yep man was a legend and I'd still pick him or Anderson or call it a dead heat.

[Big Dave]

OK here's the page so far: The Ed and the Publisher had the final say on the list.

http://www.kiwirider.co.nz/greats/kiwigreats.html
Any links or additions welcome

[Houseman]

Crafar was an absolute legend. Wasn't it awesome in the mid-late 90s to have Crafar, Slight, and Stroud all racing at the same time?! (two of them at the front more often than not).

Found this on youtube today, thought some may appreciate it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIXp0...eature=related

[PeteJ]

Len Perry won 42 NZ championship titles. His first race was a NZ championship, and he won it. No-one else has even got near to that record locally.

But as for world titles, in road race has to be Hugh Anderson, with 3. Hugh also raced MX at World level, when other Kiwis including our then national champion could not even go fast enough to qualify

[Mystic13]

Agree with Hiscock, Holden etc and would also add Glen Williams (the first of the two) the guy would jump from one bike class to another and win all day long.

So who fished this thread up. I'm guessing it may already be up at kiwi Rider.

[Big Dave]

Agree with Hiscock, Holden etc and would also add Glen Williams (the first of the two) the guy would jump from one bike class to another and win all day long.

So who fished this thread up. I'm guessing it may already be up at kiwi Rider.

Been and gone actually mate - it was up for a month - now is on the past polls page.

http://www.kiwirider.co.nz/pastpolls.html

I had it set so that it only set a cookie to stop more than one vote per IP address. If you cleared cookies you could vote more than once. As such 20 of the votes for Bruce Anstey happened overnight.

As stated - it's just fun. But future polls log IP addy as well. Still not accurate or anything else but entertainment.

The favourite brand poll went viral on Buell and Triumph groups and they got 200 votes to Suzuki 5 before I reset it.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Stefan Merriman

Four time world champion Enduro rider. Born in Tauranga, later stolen by a dingo and raised in Australia.

http://canada.aprilia.com/magazine_dettaglio.asp?id=383

And an ex flatmate of mine while I was in Brissie. Could've EASILY been a world class roadracer too. Top bloke to boot!

[cantilever]

As much as i dislike stralians,Newcombe,Slight,Briggs,Crosby,Ireland,Mo ore,Anstey..........etc

Would have to be Hugh Anderson who won 3 or 4 world championships -albeit on tiddler 50s and 125s

[Stylo]

John Boote, first in the world to race the TZ700 in 1974 and 'suitcased' his bike to the states afterwards and ( beat Kenny Roberts ? ) ...Legend.

Shayne King , 500 MX Two Stroke

Roger Freeth

Andrew Stroud

Ivan Mauger

Barry Briggs

and...agree with all the others but, ...not the Black Caps....Am I the first to mention John Boote ?? Hmmmm