Who are these?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:00 pm
Who are these?
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Re: Who are these?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:26 pm
Do you know
Re: Who are these?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:03 pm
Possibly continental, judging by passenger style, very tidy indeed. Only English guy like that was John Robinson but it deffo ain't 'im ...
Re: Who are these?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:25 pm
Sorry no idea but a great pic 
Is it an Imp 
Is it an Imp Re: Who are these?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:18 pm
I was sent the photo a year back but couldn't identify who. It's at Mount Hairpin at Scarborough, just before the plunge down the hill to the third hairpin. It's around 68-69, before my days in the North-East.
Re: Who are these?
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:00 pm
Ian, It certainly looks like an Imp, but the engines tilted backwards, not forwards like the proper ones!
Re: Who are these?
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:30 pm
Where is it too?
Re: Who are these?
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:35 pm
steve-e wrote:Where is it too?
john newton wrote:I was sent the photo a year back but couldn't identify who. It's at Mount Hairpin at Scarborough, just before the plunge down the hill to the third hairpin. It's around 68-69, before my days in the North-East.
Re: Who are these?
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:37 pm
Doh! 
Re: Who are these?
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:33 pm
Is it Brian Rust & Alan Bedford?
Re: Who are these?
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:00 pm
I dont think its Rusty Daph, really no idea who it is 
Re: Who are these?
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:55 pm
Nigel Mead?
Re: Who are these?
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:09 pm
Nigel Mead ex grasstrack man , dont remember him using Imp engines assuming it is an Imp
, dont remember him using Imp engines assuming it is an ImpRe: Who are these?
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:39 pm
The driver is John Biggs and the passenger is Tony Parr.
The bike is a home built Imp. They built 4 during their racing careers, the last one took them to second place in the british championship in 1972 behind Norman Hanks.
The bike is a home built Imp. They built 4 during their racing careers, the last one took them to second place in the british championship in 1972 behind Norman Hanks.
Re: Who are these?
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:23 pm
John had one of the first really quick Imps. We used to see them regularly at Croft and Silloth. They won the one and only British Championship meeting at Silloth in 1972. There was reportedly 11000 people crammed into the 1 mile circuit that day. I think his last Imp was bought by the Hardy brothers . They crashed on the approach to Laurel bank and Pete unfortunately lost his life.