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Post by yoda on Jun 2, 2006 22:26:25 GMT
Well spring started late this year and we are now in June my favorite month. Time for the Isle of Man TT races starting Saturday and running all week. Should have some records broken. Unfortuneately my choice for the sidecar winner this year crashed out in practice but they are OK, just completely destroyed the bike.
Le Mans practice has finished and I am sponsoring one of the cars this year. The driver is Ed Morris and the car is a Courage / Judd . Ed is the youngest British driver ever to have taken part as he has just had his 18th Birthday. I hope he does well. He has a great future to look forwards to.
Well apart from the cricket and moving a load of canal narrow boats around the country thats my June!
What are you doing?
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Post by expatd on Jun 8, 2006 16:19:17 GMT
As you said spring was late this year, we are way behind with our projects. We`ve been working hard in the garden, orchard and other areas around our property planting trees and bushes trying to fight off the weeds. Started chopping and stacking wood ready for the winter very exciting isn`t it. Seems like we aren`t getting very far. Heading for the UK in July, few days in Cheshire to visit family and a few days in Cambridge, taking the in laws with us.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2006 19:40:41 GMT
This is our second day of summery weather. I'm so far behind with the back garden I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble this year (only joking, the jobs have to be done, of course, even this late). Just been out watering the grass seed I've sown on the lawn's bald patches and trying not to look at the other things that need urgent attention. Day off tomorrow, so with a bit of luck I might make some headway.
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Post by toby on Jun 17, 2006 22:05:48 GMT
Yoda posted.:-Time for the Isle of Man TT races starting Saturday and running all week. Should have some records broken. Unfortuneately my choice for the sidecar winner this year crashed out in practice but they are OK, just completely destroyed the bike.
Toby comments.:- I used to attend the Isle of Man TT races and enjoyed the spectacle, until Mac Hobson got killed on his outfit.
Never went back, the magic had gone somehow.
Some years later I met the guy who bodged up the weld repair on the outfit, (the repair failed and they lost it.)
It appears there was a crack in the metal and the solution was to put a big dollop of weld over the crack.
It never works !
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Post by sculptor on Dec 27, 2006 14:29:54 GMT
Yoda posted.:-Time for the Isle of Man TT races starting Saturday and running all week. Should have some records broken. Unfortuneately my choice for the sidecar winner this year crashed out in practice but they are OK, just completely destroyed the bike. Toby comments.:- I used to attend the Isle of Man TT races and enjoyed the spectacle, until Mac Hobson got killed on his outfit. Never went back, the magic had gone somehow. Some years later I met the guy who bodged up the weld repair on the outfit, (the repair failed and they lost it.) It appears there was a crack in the metal and the solution was to put a big dollop of weld over the crack. It never works ! I have attended the TT for many years and was at Bray Hill in '78 with my then girlfriend. The sidecars started in pairs at the time putting one on the left of the road and one on the right. There had been complaints by many sidecar drivers that there was a hump at the top of Bray Hill on the right hand side of the road (Dick Greasley in particular had hit it in practice and said it was the closest he came to death) which caused "lift off" of one or two wheels i.e. front and sidecar wheel. This is exactly what caused Mac's accident as the machine "took off" and turned over throwing out driver and passenger. There was NO mechanical failure and in fact the machine was advertised and sold in MCN later by HamYam who owned it The race wasn't stopped (The accident happened within 2 minutes of the start ) and 2 minutes later Ernst Trachsel took off at Ago's Leap just past the bottom of Bray Hill and on landing his steering yolk broke, killing Trachsel and badly injuring his passenger. As Trachsel was known to maintain his own machinery I doubt if your "friend" had anything to do with that either but was just a 'wannabee'
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