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Yer Men
Davy Wood chcks the countdown to the start of the 1991 Lightweight TT as Joey Dunlop warms up the machine. Davy was Joeys manager and mentor throughout most of his TT winning years

A naked Worm
What lurks beneath the all-enveloping body of a modern outfit. The proximity of the twistgrip to the exhaust would worry me

The Little and Large show
It would be fair to say that Hond a choice of the Pan European ST100 as the TM bike for 1990 was not universally appreciated

Jeff Clew, V.M.C.C. member, author amd BEMSEE travelling marshal Jeff Clew takes Signpost Corner

Manx Legend; Phil Haslam
Phil Haslam (Pharaoh Yamaha) becae the first MGP rider to lap the Mountain course at oer 100 mph. His lap rcord of 103.45 was a full 48 seconds faster than the Senior lap record

1973 50th Anniversary MGP run
Signpost Corner action from the 1973 50th Anniversary MGP run

Out of the crate to race
Peter Courtney recalls his 1973 Production race on a KH 250 Kawasaki

1971 Lightweight TT
Radio TT host Charlie Williams (Dugdale Maxton Yamaha) treats thew slippery conditions at Parliament Square with due respect. Charlie won 8 TT races

Mead and Tomkinson BSA
Nigel Rollason at Union Mills in the 1973 Production TT. TheMead and Tomkinson BSA won many long-distance endurance races

1973 Senior TT
Jack Findlay ay Quarter Bridge. The French-based Australian wn his only TT in 40 starts on the Suzuki ywin

1973 Production TT
Le Mans start action from the 1973 Production 750cc class. Riders featured include Dave Nixon, Triumph, 3) Dave Croxford (Norton, 7) Darryl Pendlebury (Norton, 16) and Ernie Pitt (Triumph, 27)

A lop-sided podium finisher
Having blown up his big BMW (the rules did not allow 500s to run in the 750 Sidecar), Heinz Luthringhauser put an oversize barrel on one side of his 500 to get his start money

Eric Thompson
FormerV.M.C.C. President Eric Thompson was on-Island to ride the 50th anniversary of the MGP run

Deep in thought
Radio TTs Charlie Williams caught in a contemplative mood as he warms up his Johnson Yamaha for the 1973 Ultra Lightweight race

A long-lived Suzuki T500
Tom Loughridge with his T500. " Betwen 1971 and 1978 I raced the bike in 20 TT races; Production, Senior, Formula 750, Formula One, 1000 Classic and the 1000 Jubilee

Rotax to the fore
Con Law leaves Parliament Squre to win the 1982 Junior TT on the Waddon-Ehrlich. Various British constructed machines (rmstrong, Waddon)

Mike Vangucci
Chiltern Sections Mike Vanguci ploughs a lonley furrowe on a borrowed MAC Velo, 1981 pre-65 trial

TT Memories - 1979 Senior TT
Memories of Mike Hailwoods fighting runner up to Alex Geotge in the 1979 Senior TT

Unlucky 13 for Chris Guy
After leading the 1981 Senior TT on his private RG500 Suzuki, Chris Guy is flagged in at Parliament Squre and told the race was stopped after two laps. On the re-run, he crashed out at Braddan Bridge

1981 Classic TT
The Year of the Black Protest. Unhappy at Suzukis tactics in the Formula One race, Honda decked their riders and machines in all-black for the Classic race. Joey Dunlop at White Gates

An all-star lineup
A trio if talented champions of the World and the TT form an orderly queue at Ballacraine in the 1978 Junior TT. 1977 World Champion Takazumi Katayama leads Joey Dunlop and Mike Hailwood

1982 Sidecar TT
Jock Tayor and Benga Johansson (Fowler Yamaha) at the Bungalow. winning Sidecar Race B, setting a new lap recod at 108.29 that was to stand for seven years

Second best means second place
Charlie Williams recalls his runner up in the 1979 Formula One TT

Charlies fvourite TT mount
Of all the bikes that Charlie Williams has ridden in the Island, it was a 500 Yamaha-4 he rode in 1982 that he rates as tops

Norman Brown and the Neill Team
Twenty five years before he founded TAS Suzuki, Hector Neil was picking TT winners. Norman Brown and Hector, plus crew celebrate Normans 1982 Senior TT win

1982 Formula Two TT
Four-times TT winner for Ducati. Tony Rutter (Sports Motorcycles Ducati) won a hat trick of F2 victories from 1981 to 1983, then won again the 1985 race

Oxford Section V. M. C. C, members, 1981 Manx Grand Prix rally
Oxford Section V.M.C.C, members, pose for a group photo, 1981 Manx Grand Prix rally

Bit of a chilly ride
Robert Corkill and Richard Barks (Kawasaki) approaching Cronk Corner on the Jurby South road circuit. Down the ballavarran Straight, Robert looked down to see Richard laying on his back in the chair

A Black Week for Honda
Joey Dunlop lines up for the 1981 Classic TT in his Black Protest livery. Angered by Suzukis tactics in the Formula One race

John Boyde
Laxeys John Boyde parades his Sunbeam at the 1979 Jurby Festival

Ballanorris - Joeys Gate
" I was watching the 79 Southern 100 at Ballanarris; Joey Dunlop had made a stop to clear a radiator and was making his way thriugh the field, setting a new lap record

George & Jackie Maple
George and Jackie Maple (Rudge) 1981 Manx Grand Prix V.M.C.C. Rally

Irish ace on the airfield
Although he never rode the TT or Manx Grand Prix, Ray McCullough competed in the Southern 100 for many years. In 1979 he rode for the Irish team in the Millenium Match Races at Jurby on the QUB Yamaha

The Armoy Armada
Joey Dunlop, Jim Dunlop, Mervyn Robinson, Frank Kennedy

1979 Classic Lap
40 years after finishing third in the 1939 Senior TT, 10-times TT victor Stanley Woods again rode the works 500cc Velocette on the Island

A Flying Kipper
Oops! Chief Travelling Marshal Alan Kipper Killip drops the plot at Quarter Bridge in the 1979 TT races

1976 Formula Ywo TT
Dutchman Jan Strijbis was the last racer of a Velocette in the TT races. Jan, also the last user of a pudding basin helmet is see at Glen Vine

Dave Baxter - Eurpean Enduro Champion
Befote the days of Steve Colley and David Knight, the Island had a European off-road champion. Dave Baxter and Eric Hargreaves won the European Sidecar Enduro championship in 1975

Protest
Honda were unhappy with Suzuki tactics in the 1981 Formula One race, so Alex George, Ron Haslam and Joey Dunlop were The Men in Black, for the Classic TT that year

1981 Classic TT
Steve Parrish (Mitsui Yamaha) gives his pre-race comments as the field wait in the paddock for the start of the Classic TT

1981 Classic TT
Graeme Crosby and mechanic share a joke as they wait for the start of the Clasic. Having won the Formula One, Crosby completed the double for Suzuki

1964 Historic TT
American Dave Roper (Team Osbolete Matchless) was victorious in the Historic 500cc TT. Seen at Quarter Bridge and celebrating with 350cc clas victor Sreve Cull

A Canadian Classic visitor
Gary McCaw bought his bike and family across the Atlantic to ride the 1984 Historic TT. The fairing bears the names of his sponsors

The Vendetta Man
John Caffrey has been designing and building Vendetta frame and forks for many years, as well as racing his products, Seen at the Gooseneck in the 1984 Formula One in 1984

Mez"
Phil Mellor started his racing days on RD 350/400s, before moving up to ride works Suzuki. 1984 he rode the Padgetts of Batley RD 250 LC to win the 250Production race

1984 Formula Two TT
Germanys Margot Lingen rodwe the TT one year. Ducati monted, she finished 28th in the F2 race. Seen at Parliament Squre

Bob Simmons (Suzuki) The one and only Suzuki X7
Looking positive neolithic amongst the faired NS250, LC 250 and RG 250 models of the big three, Bob Simmons took his X7 to its only TT finish

25 years of the GSX-R
In 1985 Suzuki unveiled their range of FSX-R models. The 750 model was an instant hit with racers. Just months after the UK launch Mick Grant, seen at Parliament Square, won the Production 750 race

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