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Thanks for that

This picture has been posted up on a sidecar page on Facebook can someone name the guy in the black leathers please

The what the butler saw machine from the penny arcade was very popular

Big Tim wrote:I seem to remember acquiring a set of sidecar beer "coaster" mats from the TT in the 80's, there was a similar picture of that outfit on them !

I got those as well

On Facebook so not sure if you have to log in

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-o ... 0302241099

dick tapken wrote: if you did not know tony you would think it was all made up rode with me at gedinne once and ended up having a bath in a cattle trough seeing is believing with him

Yep remember that, i think that was the same year Mr Founds turned up in a skirt ready to hit the town.

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Used to have one in my dirty biker days and must admit sometimes it got washed about as often as my jeans which if i remember correctly i ended up wearing about 3 pairs with the filthiest on top. Still reckon the brit bikers where some of the dirtiest about in the 70s and 80s.

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And the entrants stand behind their machine waiting for the start of the Snow White challenge cup.

I remember seeing something like this race in the 70s/80s i think the drivers name was something like Angus McPhail.

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I used to work with a Peter Saville in Thornwood near Epping in the early 70s when i was an apprentice diesel fitter I'm sure he said he raced sidecars, seem to remember him having a deformed left or right hand.