MadKaw wrote:In a thread a while back someone mentioned an incident where the winner of a race did a wheelstand and flipped there bike.
I found some pics in an old AMCN
It seems the person in question just won the 125 round and did a celebratory wheelie that went horribly wrong. The bike went over the crash barrier and then over the 2 mtr high spectator fence..
Can you name the rider.. ?
Sure can. As a matter of fact I witnessed it happen!!! Couldn't feckin believe it!! He has since gone on to redeem himself with a national SS and SBK crown. Josh Brookes!!!!
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me" Hunter S. Thompson.
There are really only two questions in life. 1.Which way do i go? 2.What is the lap record?
Dave
2010 Z1000
ex bikes
05 ZX-10R Race Bike - No.77
95 ZXR750R M Race Bike - No. 75
98 ZX9R Race Bike - No. 000
zx6r, zx7r, GPX750, GPX500, lots of KX's.
I ride way too fast to worry about cholesterol
He should have left the hair!! It might make him stand out on the grid a bit more now! He could reinvent himself as an Aussie version of Rossi. WIth long hair and crazy antics, like looping it after the race!! Oh hang on......that's Max's Mantle isn't it!!!! Anyone remember "THAT" wheelie!!!!!!!!!! I think it started the whole stunting revolution!!!!!!!
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me" Hunter S. Thompson.
There are really only two questions in life. 1.Which way do i go? 2.What is the lap record?
Gosling1 wrote:its *organised* into years (sort of).........
Library consists of ..........
REVS 1973 (black and white issues ) through to 1997/98?, whenever it was that they ceased producing them........about 90% of issues.
AMCN 1980 - present. Almost 100% ......
TWO WHEELS - 1968 - present. About 90% of all issued, lots of doubles (swap-meets )
VMX (Vintage MotorCross) - 100%
Heaps of other *smaller* runs (Cycle Torque, StreetBike, RAPID, other long-ceased Aussie bike mags - basically if it has been for sale in a newsagent since 1980, its in the collection somewhere........... )
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics - 100% from about 1990 onwards ( Great pommie mag for Jap bikes from 60's/70's/80's.)
A lot of early Cycle Guide's from the US ( mainly 60's and 70's.)
Got any "Crash and Burns"? I think that's what they were called lot's of bike crash photos with funny captions
Phil wrote:from memory it was in WA - and he didnt even win the race.
we spoke about it in the great Josh Brookes interview last year.
Also correct.. He won the first race and finished 3rd in the 2nd race which put him equal first in the championship, hence the wheely..
More name this rider soon..
Dave
2010 Z1000
ex bikes
05 ZX-10R Race Bike - No.77
95 ZXR750R M Race Bike - No. 75
98 ZX9R Race Bike - No. 000
zx6r, zx7r, GPX750, GPX500, lots of KX's.
I ride way too fast to worry about cholesterol
Phil wrote:from memory it was in WA - and he didnt even win the race.
we spoke about it in the great Josh Brookes interview last year.
Yeah he pulled the front up coming over the crest and wheelied down the hill before flipping it mightily! And I mean flip!!! It spun like a twenty cent coin! We thought he'd killed himself!!! He looked like a rag doll! But..he got up...dusted himself off...and started clutching his head in his hands and shaking his head!! All the while, his little 125 was cart wheeling better than any bike I had seen, disintegrating all the while and eventually flipping itself over that rather tall cyclone fence and into the spectator area. Luckily no spectators where standing right there!!! It's funny looking back on it now, but it wasn't really cheery at the time!!! Lucky boy!
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me" Hunter S. Thompson.
There are really only two questions in life. 1.Which way do i go? 2.What is the lap record?
) through to 1997/98?, whenever it was that they ceased producing them........about 90% of issues.
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