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Title: Russ Colins passed away
Post by: UK Pete on May 20, 2014, 06:40:23 PM

http://www.cb750cafe.com/blog/russ-collins-a-legend-with-cb750s/

Title: Re: Russ Colins passed away
Post by: JamesH on May 20, 2014, 06:50:26 PM

Sad news. Amazing life story...

Title: Re: Russ Colins passed away
Post by: Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP) on May 20, 2014, 07:30:22 PM

Agreed James remember seeing that triple engined bike a while back and I am sure someone will correct me but I think I remember he cut it down to 2 engines cos it went better.May be wrong.
Like all a loss.Cheers
Bitsa

Title: Re: Russ Colins passed away
Post by: JamesH on May 20, 2014, 07:50:44 PM

Yeah think he had a big crash on the '3', believe it's being restored somewhere at the moment.

Didn't stop him going on to build a sohc 2.0L V8 - think he did a 6 sec 1/4 mile at 199 mph on that. Not a bad effort :-)

Title: Re: Russ Colins passed away
Post by: steff750 on May 21, 2014, 08:12:54 AM

thanks for posting pete yes he was an amazing guy a real pioneer