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Spitfire:


Can't let such a fine "Tache" slide by Dennis. Growing up i recall example of such on men who really did something notable. Among them, Peter Sarstetd singer, Yvon Duhamel mad Canadian Kawasaki triple pilote, Tony Pond rally driver par excellence. Never suited me when older, but seemed to denote men of achievement and individual style.  :)
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I thought everyone in the 70's had a moustache like that, but it had to go when it turned grey, I remember Yvon Duhamel well, at Silverstone he must have been expecting to breakdown as he had a large hat in the front of his leathers, which he took out and wore when his bike expired and he joined the spectators.

K2-K6:

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Can't let such a fine "Tache" slide by Dennis. Growing up i recall example of such on men who really did something notable. Among them, Peter Sarstetd singer, Yvon Duhamel mad Canadian Kawasaki triple pilote, Tony Pond rally driver par excellence. Never suited me when older, but seemed to denote men of achievement and individual style.  :)

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I thought everyone in the 70's had a moustache like that, but it had to go when it turned grey, I remember Yvon Duhamel well, at Silverstone he must have been expecting to breakdown as he had a large hat in the front of his leathers, which he took out and wore when his bike expired and he joined the spectators.
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Nooooo, I was there too, along the bend sequence leading to Hanger straight  ?  I seem to remember  :) his triple just appeared to conk out, to be lent against the sleeper track edge along there.

What a conincidence, we used to go to mainly Mallory, Silverstone and Brands from this end of country. The whole family as my dad was big time race follower, with me and my sisters indoctrinated.

Spitfire:
We used to visit Oulton (still do) and Mallory mostly, with trips to Silverstone now and again but only once to Brands, if I remember correctly Phil Read was there with the MV's, it was a bit far to go for us in a day.
I can remember we were met in the bike park (field)with a guy selling us raffle tickets for peanuts and guided to an entrance to use with the raffle tickets, much to our surprise it worked.
The other big event for us was the IOM, TT and Manx every year from 1970 to about 1978.

Happy days

Cheers

Dennis

florence:
In London, I was waved over to stop by a policeman who was on foot because he couldn't see my tax disk when i was sitting at some traffic lights.  The reason he couldn't see was due to the fact that I had bolted the tax disk holder to a bolt on the gear linkage down low on the left hand side on my CB350K.  He was very pleasant about it and recommended I move it to the headlamp bracket but was not insistent.  Once he had noted the correct and within date disk we had a nice chat, he was a biker as well when off duty.  Luckily he didn't comment about my extremely loud exhaust pipes which used to set car alarms off in narrow streets.

Rozabikes Tim:
[quotemment my extremely loud exhaust pipes which used to set car alarms off in narrow streets.
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Loud exhaust. Got pulled by plod on my CD175 with piper 2 into one with megaphone "silencer". Midnight. Where are you going, I was asked? . Driving home from a Shakespeare play Sir, I said dressed in my leather jacket, bike boots with socks rolled over the top. He had the audacity to follow me home and check with my parents. (It was true)

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