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oldbelly wrote:Gordon, Im sure you will agree that the time done by Dave and Nick in 93 ( with a broken clutch cable) was one of the best laps ever, in any class, in the history of the TT. Theres only us lot will ever appreciate that though.

Can't disagree - I reckon he must have had it in top gear for the whole race..
I downloaded a video of 1990 TT a while ago - some of the shots of Sav are really good..
here's a sequence of screenshots...




You are right about comparing era's - the best are the best - whenever they were / are racing...

Geoff, I went down to London in 1992 to buy two Konnig engines from a guy. It was in the centre of London, the workshop was under some arches of a bridge. As we went into this dingy badly lit workshop, there against the back wall was 4 or 5 outfits.
The one that stood out was a Sabre outfit, TZ 700 or 750 engine in it. Must have been one of Dave's. A dinosaur then but what would it be worth now,piece of sidecar history, no doubt still there. Wonder how many other famous outfits are sitting in garages

And total respect to Nick

Yes , I was lucky to race with Nick for two seasons.

Asked Nick one day how to get through Hall Bends at Caddy, gave me some sound advice ....never struggled again....top bloke

chrisa wrote:Asked Nick one day how to get through Hall Bends at Caddy, gave me some sound advice...

I take it you're not going to give us all the benefit ?

oldbelly wrote:Gordon, Im sure you will agree that the time done by Dave and Nick in 93 ( with a broken clutch cable) was one of the best laps ever, in any class, in the history of the TT. Theres only us lot will ever appreciate that though.

I couldn't agree more Geoff. That was one of THE great TT laps. Sav told me that Nick reckoned there were places where he could still go quicker!!