trevor saxe-coburg-gotha
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 Posted: 08:08 - 24 Jan 2015  Post subject: barges chucked around - for six hours |
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Hopefully not a repost:
1978 Castrol Six Hour Production Bike Race - Amaroo Park - Pt1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHo0DiqXAys
low side @ 16:36
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha
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Posted: 17:20 - 24 Jan 2015  Post subject: |
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| Snod Blatter wrote: | This is great, having caned the K100 around Germany on cross plies trying to keep up with much newer machinery this is very easy to relate to. Those guys must be mad!
I never knew the CBX1000 was so competitive either, always thought it was too lardy for serious racing but obviously not. |
Yeah it was funny watching those il6 monstrosities getting a good work out. Apparently there were three in that race, one "DNF" and a second that was doing very well until going in for a tyre change and instead of the one minute job it should've been, it took four and half. The Crosby/Hatton bike because something about running on the wrong kind of fuel (there was an interview with the team in the pits and they said something about leaded petrol not being blah - but some say it had actually seized), then the Neill/Cole cbx was stymied by the aforementioned elongated pit stop due to not being able to get a hot axle into a cold bearing.
"The Jim Budd/Roger Heyes Yamaha XS1100, won the race with 354 laps covered, a very professional team and that Number 3 won again!! John Warrian and Terry Kelly finished second on 353 laps on a Ducati 900SS and third was taken by the Dennis Neill and Mick Cole's CBX1000A also covering 353 laps. Ken Blake was again entered on a BMW R100S (Bike No.1) teamed with Dave Burgess and the machine fettled by Don Wilson, given the class of Superbikes they did well on the venerable 'flat twin', finishing in fourth place on 353 laps, just behind the Neill/Cole CBX!!
It is possible that the Neill/Cole CBX1000 could have taken the 1978 event, certainly second place, if the rear wheel replacement method had been pre-planned with a new rear axle mated to the replacement wheel. However the strategies employed by the Avon sponsored winners and the much simpler rear wheel/tyre replacement method on an XS1100 probably would have ensured the win regardless."
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