The Place

My friends in Malta told me it was organised by an Englishman living in Malta but to be successful it would have needed a crowd of approximately 38000 people. This is and Island that when they played Germany in a big match could only attract 35000 so a niche thing like motor sport was doomed from th...

I spend a lot of time over in Malta where there is a thriving classic motorcycle scene and also classic car club including a car gp in october. In 1995 a lot of sidecar and solo racers were involved in going out there to race although the meeting fell through and bikes ended up being impounded for 3...

evening mick, still around and back with howard, why don't you get norman up and get his arse into gear, think of all the zimmer frames on the start line.

York is already becoming a ghost town, it's only held together by tourist trade. l have a few places in York where l park on double yellow lines. Looked into it carefully and a lot of the lines are not legal ie they do not conform to the road traffic act. Had quite a few penalty notices but so far b...

Don't think it was tunnel vision that stu had, he just couldn't see anything!!!! Racing used to be a pure laugh in the 70's, l think this is probably why we had such a poor reputation in those days. lf you could get it to run you would race it and never mind if you left a bit of debris behind after ...

Don't forget the other dvd, the horsepole files, equally good and by the same people.

one of the best stories l heard about stu was before l started racing with howard. Stu was at cadwell on the club curcuit and he overshot the hairpin and into the straw breaking his glasses. They duct taped them back together again and sent him back out for the next race. Another time at elvington, ...

There used to be a big group of racers from Humberside, better known as east yorkshire. Forgotten there names now but their "leader" was Stu Leaning, last heard of as busy touring all over Europe. Hope he has his glasses fixed!! Used to run a variety of outfits, quite a few imps, known as ...

That would be Kim Newcombe, surely? http://www.ozebook.com/konig.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; No this wasn't Kim Newcombe, he only came across to ride in the gp at silverstone where he was killed in an accident after crashing. We used to see this solo quite often at ...

I have chatted with Howard a few times regards a solo 500 konig that we used to see regularly at croft in the mid 1970's. We both remember it being there but cannot remember who rode/owned it. I remember it being very low but other than that cannot remember anything else about it. Was it a then very...

heard that he is selling low mileage 'cut and shut' cars from a lock up now.

norman is still working at portasilo in york although l have just heard that he had a heart attack about 6 weeks ago. Get well soon norman.

l remember we went to aintree in 1973 and went out for the heat with them, we lead the heat till the last lap then they passed us like we were standing still. Chatting with them after the heat and they were sound blokes. Went out in the final and the chain snapped on the line so that was it for us.

Really good to see the photos of it taking shape, will be even better when it's finished

Norman Oxley is still working at Portasilo in Huntington. Been on the sick for quite a while as he has had heart problems but is getting better.