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I could say.....'Don't drink it' .....
My friend is addicted to it but he says he can stop anytime he likes ...
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But lots of more useful info here....

http://www.steveenglish.com/forum/viewt ... id#p329037

SlowPhil wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2018 11:34 am Be careful mate, they have guns and rap music over there

No shortage of chickens though

steve-e wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2018 1:49 pm Solos only for the first year. There's talk of possibly running sidecars the next time. There's another thread on here about it somewhere

www.steveenglish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=58468

I thought it might be the old one about my neighbours hammering on the door at 3am again ...





....but luckily I was still awake , practicing the bagpipes

Just to confirm what I was waffling on about , this is from the October 1975 Brands meeting with Derek and Peter shortly to remove this Yamaha engine for Gerry and Nick to take with them over the winter for the BRS build..so the 1975 Boret outfit shows it was still a Renwick, with George and Alan pr...

ianw wrote:Hi Howard, no, the chassis I had was built by George O'Dell. A copy of the Renwick but with 13" wheels.

The one in this link , Ian
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=55826&p=343966&hil ... ll#p343966

I don't want to start a family argument ;) , but for Gerry Boret 1975 , Howard says BRS while Tim says Renwick. Again I have to admit to a bit of inside knowledge , a new 'BRS' was built over the winter of 1975/1976 , and was used for the Boret Brothers last TT in 76 (DNF X 2) , swapping from Konig ...

adam10185 wrote:Cheers ronno, Im taking this to mean Sabre was only the entrant name then and not the engine?

Again apologies for my ignorance. Not quite as clued up as some of you guys.

Correct Adam No problem

Thanks for the replies so far, as mentioned above i'm not expecting to fill all the gaps, i know anything pre 1980 ish may be difficult to trace but even around this time there were still a lot of Windle/Ireson chassis around. If i could at least go back to the start of that decade i would be happy...

1981 Derek Bayley / Bob Bryson - Yamaha Can confirm Chassis was Winstanley I know for sure because I collected it from Vince Winstanley in Wigan in November 1980,was due to attend a residential training course at RTITB ,High Ercall , Shropshire, so set off from Folkestone in Derek's Transit and dive...

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