born green wrote:......Funny thing that, couple of weeks before easter, a mates new girlfriend's uncle told her not to go as there was going to be riot's, he was a member of the TRG, not going to post what he told us, as peep;s here dont think i like them
but something about them needing training,
On the sat arvo, they started to arrive in busses, think they said there were 600 of them, we counted about 6/7 coaches, and another one full of riot gear, and yer gos, it was a ripper, and no i was just a bystander!!! on the mound. they had 3 flanks, with a couple of hundred in each flank.
And they had the rags on next morm, taking the girlfriend to the dunny(if u could find one that was still standing, as they tore them down to use the bricks for missiles) they into me, ranting and raving on, and i was just sitting on my bike waiting for her to come out.
So im betting u got some grief gos, when they got u down the station??...........
fuck yeah. They were taking us out of the bullwagon one at a time - there were maybe 6 or 7 of us in the back. As each one was taken out, they were led to the cells along a corridor - lined with TRG assholes who belted the shit out of every poor bastard along the way ! I was the last one out, and only copped a couple of smacks to the head and a few good punches in the guts - was pretty winded when I hit the cells. Some of the guys were smacked in the head pretty hard, there was a lot of claret on the floor.....
88 of us in the Bathurst Jail cells - all 3 of them !!
I ended up sleeping in the *yard* as the cells were already chockas by the time our last group was thrown in there......it was an open (barred) ceiling - in Bathurst - in Easter. Yes it was a cold night !!
I know for a fact, that the TRG
actually had to raffle off positions for the 1985 races, due to the incredible demand from TRG members ( and all the others) who wanted a piece of the action with the bikies. There were over 1000 applications for a spot, but as you say only about 600 on the Mountain over the weekend.
One poor bastard on the Mountain on Saturday night - had ridden from Adelaide - and set up his campsite fairly close to the toilet block near the compound - he had been there less than 1 hour, and was just sitting at his fire knocking up a billy of tea - when on one of the first crowd *rushes* - the TRG just bowled him over and dragged him into the compound !!! He hadn't done anything at all except make his camp in the wrong spot.......poor bugger.
I got bailed on the Sunday morning - after making a call to Mum & Dads place about 0800 hrs and saying - "Happy Easter - can you send $500 to Bathurst Police Station to bail me out ?? "
Mum was mortified.
I could write a book on the shit we used to get up to at the races. Here are a couple of photos of the boys at Bathurst over a couple of years....
Hilton on the Hill - that is the Black Pearl on the left. We went everywhere together
Tits out backwards up at Macphillamy Park....
The infamous 'Dunny Burnout' I did on the Pearl. This was in 1982. Smoke billowed out of that dunny block for 20 minutes ....
That is me on the left on the Pearl, and Ross on his z650 (820 kit) on the right. A bit of roost behind us
- 1983 or 84 ?
Sitting up on the scaffolding 1983
The boys - 1982. Black Pearl on the right.
On the road to Bathurst - I think this was the 1984 gig.
This is from the 1985 gig. Before the riots.....and yes punters, that is PC on the right - when he had hair !!!
that was awesome camerawork wasn't real great back then. When was the last time bikes raced at Bathurst. 
