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Crikey, Ben- both you and Paul Wright looking to retrieve their old outfits? My guess is that they've been flogged to the USA, where they'll remain, sadly...

But it's been REALLY smashing reading this thread again, thanks! Another happy memory now (test day @ Snetterton in the 70's)... I'm out on ...

Wow! Thanks for sharing that picture, Clive- it brought the memories flooding back. The bike looks just the same as it did forty years ago, if not better!

Another Luton name recalled, and another close friend of John Judge... Who remembers Paul Huzzey from the Morgan & Huzzey clock shop in Chapel ...

Different John at MGM, Peter. John Judge raced DBD34 Gold Star in the early 60's, and then a Triumph Daytona 500cc in the Production class, plus a nifty little 500cc Daytona racer in the normal 500 races. And finally his 725cc Metisse Bonny.

I did pop round to Windsor Walk the other day, but the ...

So is this to do with getting small 10" front rims working with fat 5" tyres on the front end of an outfit? Something we could NOT do successfully back in the late 60's using leading link Earles front suspension? On account that the steering head angle on the front forks made the front tyre 'tip ...

Recall that circa '67 RGM ran a passenger test day at Snetterton when seeking replacement(s). Quite an interesting day out but was one of the rejects :(

Please think again, Bob. Are you sure it was that early, in 1967 ??? This will help me remember a bit more of RGM history. I'm now beginning to ...

Dane comes on here now and then, not seen her for a while but natter on Skype occasionally.
Windsor Walk, it is kind of where I meant, down the bottom end of Farley Hill not far from 3 counties radio.
somewhere here give that link a few seconds to load.. google's street view takes a bit of time ...

I bought a Trident Metisse frame from John Judge back in the early ninetys, I would like ask John a question about it
so if he reads this, can you get in touch John?
tel 01770302164
Lenny

PM me Lenny, and I'll give you John' landline number, mate. But as as I'm a right old nosy barsteward, wotz ...

Windsor Walk, that's up Farley Hill way? near where the HA used to drink at the Forresters :D

Hiya Steve! Nah, Windsor Walk is a back alley in a part of Luton that used to have a Pub on almost every street corner. It's in a 'block' formed by Windsor St, Wellington St, Dumfries St, and Hastings St ...

Yep! Answers (or most of them) tomorrow guys. Along with some more memories of what it was actually like working at 54 Windsor Walk, Luton in the late 60's

Cheers- AL

Another google turned up a smashing bit of YouTube footage of an RGM outfit on what looks to be a practice day at the Circuit Carole, north east of Paris, in 1993. Quite a long video clip it is, too.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DfyT26seQhyM&sa=U&ei ...

Found a better picture of the almost-finished outfit we took to the Brighton show. Another difference between my builds and those of Rob North is in the tubing used for the swinging arm. I used round 1 3/16" dia tubing, while Rob used square or rectangular section tube.

Thought I might as well do ...

...The expression on the passengers face is begging for a caption though....I know :roll: :offtopic:

Yep, with Nick Boret's bum about an inch off the tarmac rushing through a left hander at about 80 mph, my facial expression would be one of worry, rather than enjoyment, too, LOL!

There was ...

Talking of the RGM fibreglass work, this evokes a very bad memory...

I remember someone taking advantage of John Judge's honest and trusting nature once. Mick Fiddaman phoned and said he was building a new outfit, and needed a full kit of our fibreglass in a desperate hurry. Cash waiting. He'd seen ...

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/community/Forums/Categories/Topic/?topic-id=380565 Found this Alan, would it be worth an email to see if he ever found him.

I looked John up in our local Luton directory this morning and found him! Still in Pulloxhill, Bedfordshire, where I last had a couple of ...

Alan RGM was Rose Green Motors i think, i remember going down to their workshop in the late 60's with Steve and Jim Williamson, i think the deal was they want Steve and Jim to race their outfit but if i am correct Steve thought it a bit flimsy. He later built one that broke going into Quarter ...