I saw this bike.........

[Richo]

It definitely sounds like it means business Pantah. Not sure of the calendar for the local speedway but their website doesn't show much anyway so hard to tell. See http://www.milduramotorcycleclub.org.au

[Richo]

Well sadly the Vincent didn't get to run last night as it wasn't quite ready. We still need to rejet so it can run on methanol. We have a rider and passenger lined up but there is no point taking it out if it ain't ready. I did go to the speedway last night anyway and they had only 3 classic outfits running (all Honda 740 4's). One thing is certain, you will be able to hear the Vincent above the Honda's.

[Pantah]

Looking forward to seeing some footage when it is up and running!

[Oscar]

One thing is certain, you will be able to hear the Vincent above the Honda's.

And that's if it's only lapping de old backyard track at the same time as the lads at the Speedway.

[WayneG]

One thing is certain, you will be able to hear the Vincent above the Honda's.

There is an old (now) racer in NSW called Eric Debenham who used to race a beautiful HRD Vincent at Bathurst. In the days of push starts he would deliberately wait on the grid for a couple of seconds because he said that when all the two strokes lit up around him, he couldn't hear the HRD fire up.

[Richo]

One thing is certain, you will be able to hear the Vincent above the Honda's.

There is an old (now) racer in NSW called Eric Debenham who used to race a beautiful HRD Vincent at Bathurst. In the days of push starts he would deliberately wait on the grid for a couple of seconds because he said that when all the two strokes lit up around him, he couldn't hear the HRD fire up.

Probably couldn't see his bike either...

[CastrolR]

I saw this at Suzuka a while back...I finally found this pic so I can post it.....A Kawasaki KR 350 GP bike.From 1979.This is a Tandem twin.A very nice looking machiene.....

This is in fact the 250 not the 350.

[Pantah]

I dunno.... said 350 on the little display board in front of the bike......
What makes you think it's not a 350 ?

[yzr750]

I dunno.... said 350 on the little display board in front of the bike......
What makes you think it's not a 350 ?

Probably the green plates, 350's run blue plates, and the single front disc?

[Pantah]

I looked for clues last night. The 350s I saw
had Single front discs. They are described as being very similar to the 250. I saw a bike on you tube with the same paint job that was a 250. It was said to be a factory machine. No rider name.looking at GP results from the late 70s it would appear teams ran bikes in both 250 and 350....you would imagine those teams would run the same paint job? It's an interesting topic......

[yzr750]

I looked for clues last night. The 350s I saw
had Single front discs. They are described as being very similar to the 250. I saw a bike on you tube with the same paint job that was a 250. It was said to be a factory machine. No rider name.looking at GP results from the late 70s it would appear teams ran bikes in both 250 and 350....you would imagine those teams would run the same paint job? It's an interesting topic......

The paint job is irrelevant, back then 350's had to run blue plates, even at gp level
http://flatout-f1.sakura.ne.jp/img769.jpg

[Pantah]

Cool, learn something new every day......never saw a 350 race. Too young at the time.....

[WayneG]

The single front disc is interesting. The works bikes prepared by TKA (Neville Doyle) for Greg Hansford in 78/79 ran double discs on the 250 and 350, whereas other 250/350s of the same era appear to use single front discs.

These are the bikes Greg Hansford campaigned in the 1978/79 world championships. They are on display at the Bathurst Motoring Museum.

[yzr750]

The single front disc is interesting. The works bikes prepared by TKA (Neville Doyle) for Greg Hansford in 78/79 ran double discs on the 250 and 350, whereas other 250/350s of the same era appear to use single front discs.

These are the bikes Greg Hansford campaigned in the 1978/79 world championships. They are on display at the Bathurst Motoring Museum.

I wouldn't say no to those four being parked in my shed.

[WayneG]

I wouldn't say no to those four being parked in my shed.

Me too neither.

[CastrolR]

Yes that's right the 350 would have blue plates. Another thing is that it's Mick Grants number yet he didn't compete in the 250 or 350 GP's in '79 at all so they seem to have the entire description ar#e about. It is probably his '78 KR250 which would also explain why Hansfords bikes, which I think last competed in 1980, have twin discs on the front.

[Cam D]

Cool, learn something new every day......never saw a 350 race. Too young at the time.....

you missed out on same great racing then ....

[CastrolR]

Aint that the truth, the 350 class was by far the most competitive back then. The top guys in Oz late 70's early 80's (about 10 of them) were certainly good enough to compete on the world 350 GP circuit given some decent sponsorship, sadly there was none around back then.

[yzr750]

Aint that the truth, the 350 class was by far the most competitive back then. The top guys in Oz late 70's early 80's (about 10 of them) were certainly good enough to compete on the world 350 GP circuit given some decent sponsorship, sadly there was none around back then.

I agree, it was a decent halfway house between the 250's and 500's, riding a 350 definitely required a different technique than the 250.

[Cam D]

Aint that the truth, the 350 class was by far the most competitive back then. The top guys in Oz late 70's early 80's (about 10 of them) were certainly good enough to compete on the world 350 GP circuit given some decent sponsorship, sadly there was none around back then.

about 15 years old ... a stinking hot Saturday afternoon at Lakeside .... a TZ350......Terry Kelly doing laps on his own .....standing at the base of the tower watching him come onto the straight through the heat haze .... a perfect moment burned into my memory.

[CastrolR]

...TZ350....Terry Kelly doing laps on his own.....

And he was one of the slower guys. It wasn't unusual to have 3 or 4 guys dicing for the lead the entire race on TZ350's and every top Australian racer competed in the class at one time or another not always as winners either before maybe finding success in bigger classes.

[WayneG]

I was going through an old album from my touring days and came across this photo I took in 1988 in a carpark in Canberra. It still makes me drool!
Ducati F2TT Replica 650cc

[Pantah]

That makes me drool, too.........

[el_chorvo]

[DaveP]

Nice to see the CRT bikes are making progress!