I'm still not convinced anyone would be interested and anyway, the easy part is writing it. The hard part is distribution and marketing. How about something from "Back in the fairly recent day?" On Pat Doyle's V11 Guzzi during the Canadian Thunder round at the Mosport Superbike weekend '02...
have you ever considered an auto, I mean motorcycle biography? Duff did one, from the snippets in this thread so far it sounds like it would be an entertaining read. :idea: Geez I don't know Graham. Huge difference between a world class racer like Duff and what I did. Yeah, it was the highest level...
Mosport 1974. Open Junior production. Yours truly is 750 Kawasaki triple number 10. http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p223/boone8/h2mosportchute1.jpg http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p223/boone8/h2mosportchute2.jpg I won that race by pulling a harebrained pass on the last lap after drafting the l...
A few guys have heard my Hailwood story before but here goes. I was riding in the Novice race at Daytona that year (I think 1971) on my TD1C Yamaha and hanging around the Goodyear garage. I was trying to scrounge some cast-off tires that the fast guys had used in practice because a set of their scru...
How about this one? The best roadracer there ever was or ever will be, Mr. Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood shortly after he stepped on my foot at Daytona. http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p223/boone8/hailwood-1.jpg I'll have a look and see what I can find. Back then, most of us took slides and sad...
No airplanes in my past but something almost as fast... http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p223/boone8/TZ700.jpg TZ700 at Sanair. I couldn't believe how frigging fast that thing was the first time I opened it up on the straight. TZ350s were mobile chicanes. Honda CR750s were stationary haybales. Des...
When i started racing, production rules were up to 250cc and over 250cc. In the fall of 1971, I bought a Yamaha DS7 250 so I could go production racing the next season. About two weeks after I changed the ownership over, the CMA changed the rule structure to up to 350cc and over. Sigh. So my new rid...
Do any of the donators have objections to using some of these on our club website? I have no objections, Your Honour. And John, I think Number 48 in that picture is Richard Schlacter - one of the really fast local guys who went on to win one or two AMA Nationals on a TZ750. I got to know Richie pre...
Couple more 1976 Nelson Ledges 5-Hour. There were so many entries, they split the field into "Under 500cc" and Over. I forget exactly how many were in the Under 500, but I'm pretty sure it was close to 60. The first pic is the LeMans start while the second is shortly after. http://i129.pho...
Sanair again and it must be 1974, my first year as an Expert, this time on my 1972 H2 Kawasaki 750 triple. Number 66 is Derek Mitchell on a 1974 H2, who was sponsored by Manley's (which became Kawasaki Canada), the guy right behind me (can't recall his name) is on a Z1, and half hidden behind Derek ...
Knee sliders? In the 1970s? Sort of like asking where the fuel injection was - not happening. If you look at the first pic of my 400, there's a patch sewn onto my right knee - I actually touched it down a few times and that's all I could come up with to cover the hole. As for passenger pegs, Product...
