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Bill Thacker & Kevin Fox, Winstanley Honda 6, 1982

Unfortunately all the genuine buyers who are really looking to buy a bike get tarred with the same brush as this kind !

Strangely enough I've encountered the exact opposite of this a couple of times in the last couple of months .......... time wasting sellers ! make a genuine enquiry, offer to pay ...

andy bailey wrote: Wed Sep 05, 2018 9:50 pm The outfit that John Holden had was sold to a bloke called Alan Brown in Heywood lancs my father passengerd it a few times at croft & elvington don't know what happened to it after that

I remember Alan Brown, pretty sure he had a TZ700 at one time.

Aintree 1883.
I think number 11 is Rob Cooper on his CBX, I also think number 16 is Des Founds.
Thats me on our 350 in the middle, the blue silver & red outfit.
The chassis was a Fidderman bought from Mick Hudson of York, we fitted the 350 into it.



Great picture Ian, brings back lots of ...

I remember 2 Honda CBX 6 outfits that were raced, I think Alan Fisher had one and the other was a Winstanley framed outfit built by the guy who had the Honda shop in Eccles (can't remember his name due to old age now :roll: ), a guy called Rob Cooper from the Wirral bought that one and did quite ...

Thanks Steve, much appreciated ......... top man

Got accepted to join it 2 days ago, then seemingly banned from it yesterday after 1 genuine post .............. strange

Probably demolish it and build unaffordable tiny box houses on the site

That's the long outfit I remember Derek Jones riding Ian, think they experimented with some kind of 'aerofoil' type of streamlining over the back end, looked superb at the time !

Lots of tubular chassis I've seen nowadays seem to undergo (or have done in the past) many major structural changes to accomodate different engines etc , only thing I remember having done welding wise in the late 70's/early 80's was maybe to change a handhold, gear change rod or remove a front exit ...

Any other pics from different angles without the fairing ? thank you

Just looking in to some info from the 80's, I seem to remember Trevor Ireson making at least 2 lwb outfits ? ........ or was it more ? any info appreciated, many thanks (any of them still around ??)

Could be down to the age old argument of how much it costs to go racing nowadays ? plus how many young & newer sidecar crews are joining the ranks because of cost ?

Maybe too many different classes in the sidecars now, always had over subscribed full grids when it was the open 1300 class .........

The way that most british airlines are run & managed nowadays it wouldn't surprise me if they did !

paulsparkie wrote: Thu Jul 26, 2018 4:19 pm Best era ever the two strokes proper race engine and great racing,too many bits in them 4 strokes

Absolutely correct !! great days !