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Hows things Merv. Mal built his own fibreglass bike with Lamplass in the nort east supplying the raw materials.Trouble was the outfit ended up too heavy. Ken Graham built the chassis after that (the one Mal crashed at Silverstone). Ken is from the Newcastle area and at the time his bikes (using Windle running gear) were very tidy and as Mal and Ken before him proved worked really well, (Ken finished 5th in the 76 TT on his own Suzuki 750 outfit). Mal was a fantastic rider who would have certainly gone on to better things (he re-mortgaged his house to continue racing) and Ken still pops in for a cupa if hes passing.

oldbelly wrote:Hows things Merv. Mal built his own fibreglass bike with Lamplass in the nort east supplying the raw materials.Trouble was the outfit ended up too heavy. Ken Graham built the chassis after that (the one Mal crashed at Silverstone). Ken is from the Newcastle area and at the time his bikes (using Windle running gear) were very tidy and as Mal and Ken before him proved worked really well, (Ken finished 5th in the 76 TT on his own Suzuki 750 outfit). Mal was a fantastic rider who would have certainly gone on to better things (he re-mortgaged his house to continue racing) and Ken still pops in for a cupa if hes passing.

Hiya matey, do we know each other? Mal certainly was one of the flyers and a gent by all accounts, I recall his passing away with great sadness.

Merv, If your Steve Nobles brother we definatly know each other. As old belly, im the oldest of us Bells.Im Geoff, and if your the right bloke the last time we bumped into was after that very wet Southern 100 1996.

Mal White did build the Rumbold yam out of fiber glass and used it with good results.
Yup! it was heavy and he built it with the help of a guy called Phil Oliver who was a passenger for Mal on the TryFly. I knew Mal as a 16 year old and had my first ride on a outfit with him on a test day at cadwell Fantastic!!!!
Mick Staiano bought a new windle and Mall orderd his from terry as soon as he saw micks
He was a great bloke and a gent heading to greater things if he had the chance!

Mal,Dot,Tracy and Phil,(spendlove),usedto stay at our house on the way down to Brands Hatch in the late seventies,my Dad has got lots of film of Mal at the TT on the tryfly weslake and Rumbold yamaha,i think from memory that he has got film of the said fibreglass machine,if i remember the fueltank was the passenger floor,i was only a kid(honest)then
im of to see him next week,i will ask,might,if he has put the film on dvd be able to download a link with steves help,

Yup that was correct the passenger floor was the fuel tank and was baffeled as to stop fuel wash
way ahead of its time. Just look what carbon fiber does to day
great minds Eh!
remember going to his shed where it was built as a boy and seeing it at scarborough racing,
On me moped!
took two hours to get there but loved it cause got free passes curtoucey of Dot working at pronto print
soz! Mr Hilliby LOL

oldbelly wrote:Merv, If your Steve Nobles brother we definatly know each other. As old belly, im the oldest of us Bells.Im Geoff, and if your the right bloke the last time we bumped into was after that very wet Southern 100 1996.

Geoff,

Bloody hell, long time no see matey. I was not at the Southern in 96, my last visit there was 82 with Steve on a Derbyshire GS1000 which expired all to quickly. 81 was far more memorable for us on a Derbyshire Kawasaki, bloody fast, reliable and bog standard .

What are you up to these days?

Regards,

Merv

Well Geoff ! 96 – 82 doesn’t time fly as we get older !

Yes it does Wal, unfortunately

yhatspants wrote:Mal White did build the Rumbold yam out of fiber glass and used it with good results.
Yup! it was heavy and he built it with the help of a guy called Phil Oliver who was a passenger for Mal on the TryFly. I knew Mal as a 16 year old and had my first ride on a outfit with him on a test day at cadwell Fantastic!!!!
Mick Staiano bought a new windle and Mall orderd his from terry as soon as he saw micks
He was a great bloke and a gent heading to greater things if he had the chance!

bloody hell Andy. not seen you for 20 years. you still in h'gate?how many of us had our first taste of sidecars on mick's windle at cadwell?? i did at the ripe old age of 15.great. was thinking about you a while ago, when I found the trophy of mine you put the plasters on after my tumble at carneby. I still see Phill from time to time as he lives just round the corner.

jc. John Chandler

managed to get film of mals fibreglass outfit from my dads cine collection,it was the year Biland was there on his Beo outfit,trying to find out how to upload it

Just use a DV camcorder pointing at the screen positioned next to the projector. Then download the DV cam footage into a hard drive via a firewire and video capture card.
You know, I just realised how damn simple that sounds, but of course it isn't if you are not geeky

If it's already digital Bruce how big a file is it?

dads filmed the cine film and given me the dvd ,what now please

You need some software like Roxio to transfer the DVD to an AVI file. This will still need reducing to a reasonable size which you can email or publish to a web site. Windows movie maker will reduce the size of the file significantly without losing too much resolution.