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Pics taken yesterday at Ormskirk Motorfest

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Really nice bloke who owned it and it sounded great

That is beautiful! G50 motor?

Yes Ian it is a g50, Dick Hawes and Jim Mann had it built for the 1968 season and had good results with it 6th at 1969 tt and finished 10th in world championship that year.

BUDDHA.

Well you can learn something everyday, i always thought that CS rode that bike before Dick, shows how you can assume

Im sure your right Jim, I read Colin Seeleys first book and he talked about the G50 in that

Have a look at page 203 in first book ' quote' around that time i agreed to build a G50 powered sidecar outfit for regular sidecar competitor Dick Hawes. Sorry for being pedantic on this but i grew up looking at Jims scrapbook and dreaming of the day i could get involved in the sport myself and now thanks to Dave Gristwood i am having a blast.

Buddha.

Well Colin may have built this one for Dick, but im sure he raced an identical one first

After a nights sleep i think the one Colin rode that looked like Dicks and in silver instead of black as a lot of his outfits used to be had a BMW motor

Now THAT is really beautiful

Really nice bike ! nice to see Dick's old bikes !
He had so many different sidecars

this one looks great !

If this bike was made for Dick I wonder where Mr Seeleys bike is ?
On the subject of Colin Seeley I think he was very much underated if you have a look at the results he got in world championships he was far better than a cetain BSA rider everyone goes on about
Seeleys book is very informative If Odells book is the bible, Seeleys is the new testament

Colin Seeley built the outfit for Jim Mann and myself, and we took delivery of it in time for the 1968 TT.

We finished 10th but would have done much better if I had not used new leathers which restricted the blood
flow to my arms. We pitted to undo the cuffs and Colin [who was in our pit] would not let me go until he was
sure I had recovered the circulation.

Colin raced the bike himself at Brands with Ray Lindsay in the chair. He then fitted a famous ex works 650cc Matchless motor[Black Bess] for us and Jim and I finished 3rd on it at the Brands Hatch Boxing day just beating Norman Hanks
who was riding Bob Pyet's NSU

The black G50 outfit which Colin campained for several years and on which he won numerous British Championships,
was in fact a solo G50 with a bolt on sidecar. What an achievement !!!.

In my humble opinion motorcycle racing owes a great debt to Colin Seeley. He [and his team] carried the sport
almost single handed through the period between the shutting down of A M C to the coming of the Japanese