Cemetery Circuit Prize Giving

[Billy]

Thanks for the old photo Grant, poor old Nev's (# 41) not here anymore.
I wonder if anyone on here ? Is older than me. I started at Wanganui in the rain 1970, whenever the T350 Suzukis came out. Pity, photos weren't so plentiful in those days.
(yes they had cameras then !!)lol.

Yip,I was there,As a spectator only,That was the year Alan Brown from Stokes Valley was killed wasnt it? Oh and dont you mean "315" Suzuki??? Didnt get any piccies though sadly

[roogazza]

Yip,I was there,As a spectator only,That was the year Alan Brown from Stokes Valley was killed wasnt it? Oh and dont you mean "315" Suzuki??? Didnt get any piccies though sadly

All I can remember was Open Prod,John Woodley won it on a
CB750, the pissing rain and me 8th.
Yes 315cc and with no ohlins,just TT100s.

[Grumph]

Thanks for the old photo Grant, poor old Nev's (# 41) not here anymore.
I wonder if anyone on here ? Is older than me. I started at Wanganui in the rain 1970, whenever the T350 Suzukis came out. Pity, photos weren't so plentiful in those days.
(yes they had cameras then !!)lol.

The T350's came out summer of 70/71 - i had the first reg on the road in ChCh - and raced it at Levels 3 days after purchase...
I'd already been racing for a season.

Could never afford to go to wanganui as a rider though - had to wait until I was taken to look after customer bikes.

[Kickaha]

Balls? yes they have them on the internet or some where, but in the old fashioned real world they are fukin useless

They don't sound to much different from you then

[BIG DOUG]

Shit grantnz I lived in the house just to the left of the rz pic,we used to hook the sidecar up to the morrie thou and tow it to the pits and ride it home.

[Frenchy]

the new generation of so called racers are SOFT COCKS

Thats it im going to pull mine out next time i see you and slap you round with it!!!!

[grantnz]

Shit grantnz I lived in the house just to the left of the rz pic,we used to hook the sidecar up to the morrie thou and tow it to the pits and ride it home.

Thats what street circuits were about then , my own personal view of course.

The point is, street circuits were never treated as proper race tracks, but more like an exhibition of motorcycle racing for the public to get up close with, they used to pay good prize money, and it was a party atmosphere.
Some people of course took it more seriously.

If you want to ride at 110%, there are tracks like Manfeild, Pukekoe, Ruapuna, Teretonga, and Levels. If you come off at 210kmph there, you most likely walk away. At Wanganui you ride at 95% and only crash once in 5 years.

Racing for points as part of a Series/ Championship at a street meeting is not a smart thing to do.

Soft Cock Membership initiation complete.

[GD66]

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Who are we picking in that pic ? Nev Hiscock and Robert Holden, plus maybe Bob Toomey (#57) on the WMC Suzukis. #43 Richard Scott on the Valley Yamaha. #10 Allan DeLautour.
Is #48 Ian Dawson? Is #65 John Marsh ?
I think #153 might be Kevin Maxwell on the TZ, but have no idea who 0 is on the RG500 Suzuki....looka busy, though...

[grantnz]

Who are we picking in that pic ? Nev Hiscock and Robert Holden, plus maybe Bob Toomey (#57) on the WMC Suzukis. #43 Richard Scott on the Valley Yamaha. #10 Allan DeLautour.
Is #48 Ian Dawson? Is #65 John Marsh ?
I think #153 might be Kevin Maxwell on the TZ, but have no idea who 0 is on the RG500 Suzuki....looka busy, though...

Robert Holden

[grantnz]

Old days at Wanganui

[Brian d marge]

Sorry cant resist it ...

" the old days "



So much simpler then .........

Stephen

[Grumph]

The point is, street circuits were never treated as proper race tracks, but more like an exhibition of motorcycle racing for the public to get up close with, they used to pay good prize money, and it was a party atmosphere.
Some people of course took it more seriously.

If you want to ride at 110%, there are tracks like Manfeild, Pukekoe, Ruapuna, Teretonga, and Levels. If you come off at 210kmph there, you most likely walk away. At Wanganui you ride at 95% and only crash once in 5 years.

Racing for points as part of a Series/ Championship at a street meeting is not a smart thing to do.

Soft Cock Membership initiation complete.

Dead right....and they were originally fund raisers for the local community. At least in the SI they still are. There used to be a lot of street race meetings in the 50's - no permanent circuits then.

[roogazza]

So, couple of oldies still going, great.
Here is one of my earlier pics from Onekawa 72 . I believe the guy in third was one of the first RD350s.

[jellywrestler]

Dead right....and they were originally fund raisers for the local community. At least in the SI they still are.

Programmes at the Cemetery Circuit this year were a fund raiser for the wanganui Hospice, there was also some money donated to the Hospice from some tickets sales through charity auctions via a third party. And paeroa has a few local organisations on their team of helpers as fund raisers for their clubs etc

[Maha]

From Crosby's website...

Accidents were part and parcel of racing on the street circuits of New Zealand.
Head butting lamp-posts and gutters were always a possibility and losing skin was an occupational hazard but surprisingly very few injuries plagued the top riders and certainly no fatalities were suffered so all in all remove the thought of blood and the odd compound fracture it Wanganui was always a safe racetrack.

...and two legends in the one shot...Holden leading Neville Hiscock.