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Ok a little info Hillclimb for the championship you have 2 practice run's & then 2 timed runs that count for points simple, If you get red flagged because someone has crashed (maybe 2 or more bikes on the hill at one time) you go back down & have another run. So back in the 90s we are at Prescott Hillclimb, we've (I have) chucked it at the scenery in the first practice so we are on the back foot, only one practice. lining up for our run & getting closer to the start line, I notice a Rider in the vintage solo class cant start his bike One Stu Stoppard now Stu was quite capable of chucking it at the scenery! We get to the start line just about to be chocked up & Stu pulls up alongside bike now running & asked if he could jump in our place, normally I'd say no! I'm ready to go, heads in the right place etc etc, But I said fine jump in Stuart, My passenger who knew me all to well pushed us back lifted his visor & said "you bar steward" & laughed. you see I'd thought if he's wound up he might crash & we would get a red flag & another run, as soon as he'd gone off, we lined up as fast as possible, the light changed off we went, just as we are exiting the second to last corner, Red flag Oh no we are going to have another run
Ps Stu didn't crash he forgot to turn on the fuel tap.
Ps Stu didn't crash he forgot to turn on the fuel tap.
I that a A65 bsa engine-lovely looking bike!Used to watch the bikes in the late "60"s at Malory my favourite was "sideways sid "on the BMW until he piled up big time at the hairpin-they took no prisioners then!
Nice, like the quick change tool post as well.
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Do you mean Fritz Scheiddegger? If so i was there that day as well. Unfortunately he was killed and passenger John Robinson seriously injured.
Just read this thread, does anyone remember Pip Harris. He had a garage in our village and when we wandered past we would often see his bike in the garage.
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The foot print is probably bigger than my workshop
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The foot print is probably bigger than my workshop
Its bigger than mine as well.. the temperature soak room here is bigger than mine.
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It could , but not easily , stuff like that is much easier on smaller 5 axis machines. To be fair , the CAM software now is that good, its deskilled the job,i know guys that can program , but cant work a machine lol, but when you watch how they do it , an old school guy would be ploughing material off for fun with a big cutter , which the new guys would be using a 10mm ballnose for , with a gazillion passes.
I was watching a yank on youtube the other day, and he was saying that we can't beat the chinese on labour rates, we have to beat them by working smarter, and one way with machinery was by taking as few cuts as possible. Made sense to me, when I was on bonus we had the speed and feeds whacked right up, especially with brass and cast iron.
Pip was probably the first British driver to campaign a RH Rennsport BMW outfit. Always immaculately turned out but usually the first of the rest behind the likes of Max Deubel on the works BMW.
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Yes, I used to come home with nylon shirt and socks looking like the moths had been at them.
BTW when I say RH outfit, I mean right hand drive, ie bike on right, chair on left. Deubel really used to struggle at Mallory with the chair on the right and the long right hand Gerrards and the hairpin.
Ever use a chipstream box dave? Link Removed you could get a continuous length of swarf coming off yards long with EN8, snaking about on the floor. One of the amusements us apprentices got up to, who could get the longest length of swarf.
Safer=boring
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The stuff we did years ago!! we had at work a large Wolf drill (similar to the one in the Photo But morse taper ) it was 2 man job really but some time's you would use it on your own with a 3ft piece of tube pushed over the handle
if you got it wrong & the tube flew off with a large drill bit it would spin you over & slap you on the ground
if you got it wrong & the tube flew off with a large drill bit it would spin you over & slap you on the ground
Yes me and a couple of mates were there-think his front brake snapped on aproach to hairpin.
I recall that as he came up to the hairpin he was looking down at the brake pedal.
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CNC has not got to Devon yet 
That brings back some memories,
made similar things like that, but would have had a 10' ? length of bar, so as you undid the collets it slid through onto a stop on the capstan, and when your done part it off, and then repeat 500 times.
I hope your testing them with go and not go gauges.
made similar things like that, but would have had a 10' ? length of bar, so as you undid the collets it slid through onto a stop on the capstan, and when your done part it off, and then repeat 500 times.
I hope your testing them with go and not go gauges.
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I used to marshal mainly at Snetterton in the sixties, became friends with some of the sidecar racers, Pat Millard always used to borrow our mallet to drive in his tent pegs, we helped Camathias working on his outfit before racing commenced, Chris Vincent, Colin Seeley, Terry Widdecombe and Pip Harris were all regulars in those days, we would camp in our tent in the paddock alongside them regularly. Happy. days. The mixed aroma of Castrol R and frying bacon is still one of my favourites.
Couple of old photos of Pip Harris.
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Here you go chap's
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