Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Some more scanned slides and negatives from 1974-75 during our European motorcycle oddesey from Australia...

Sorting more slides caused me to pause and scan more into my computer...I've run previous posts on this sort of stuff...no particular theme or order, but interesting photos via DQ of another time....

1974 in Douglas IOM at TT time.....
Tom Arter's garage...IOM TT 1975...
Jack Findlay, Suzuki, Ballaugh Bridge during practice...1974 IOM TT
1974 IOM TT...Arter Matchless
At the Elephant Rally, Nurbergring, February 1975.
February 1975 at the Elephant Rally in Germany, Nigel, Jim and Val Day...with the Lancs.Centre flag of the Velocette Owners Club...

A Ralph Seymour special Velocette...KTT Mk.8 engine, factory 5 speed gearbox, works 8" dia. internal 2LS front brake...at a Velocette Owners Club Day, Stanford Hall, UK, probably in 1975.
"Mrs Velobanjogent"....Judy, the "best pillion passenger in the world" ( to pinch a line from Bruce Main-Smith, the former MotorCycling journalist).
At our rented flat in Willesden, London, 1974.
  Snowing in London ..our flat with R50/5 under wraps and the R75/5 on the footpath.... 

My R50/5 BMW in one of its many guises, likely on the way back from the Elephant Rally in February 1975.
The panniers I made in Australia, I'd picked up an Avonaire fairing and the regular petrol tank, a 30 litre Hoske is temporarily replaced with the tank of an R75/5 I'd bought from Slocombes of Neasden in London.
Another shot of my R50/5...not NSW front licence plate. The bike was still registered in NSW, Australia. Likely a BMW Club run...
A London Centre of the UK Velo OC Club night at The Old Windmill pub,Hadley, Barnett...likely in 1975.
Another UK Velo OC club night...can't place this one, but the chap on the left looks like Geoff Blanthorn to me...a former editor of the Club's magazine "Fishtail"....

1 comment:

matt machine said...

bloody great photos.