Bathurst 74...

[Strika]

I remember watching one of the crowd charges that the cops did. There was this massive bloke called... of course... Tiny. He was sitting cooking sausages on his fire when one of the charges came. A young copper saw him as an easy target and came at him from behind beating what looked like the shit out of him with a baton without warning. Tiny stood up half way through copping his beating and without raising his voice, towered over the young copper by a good 8 inches and said slowly and quietly in a very deep voice........ "I hope they wern't ya best shots?" The little copper ran away like a 10 year old!!! Tiny went straight back to cooking his sausages without batting an eyelid. I think they may have got him later with a few extra arms and legs, as he wasn't at his camp for a while after.

[born green]

I remember watching one of the crowd charges that the cops did. There was this massive bloke called... of course... Tiny. He was sitting cooking sausages on his fire when one of the charges came. A young copper saw him as an easy target and came at him from behind beating what looked like the shit out of him with a baton without warning. Tiny stood up half way through copping his beating and without raising his voice, towered over the young copper by a good 8 inches and said slowly and quietly in a very deep voice........ "I hope they wern't ya best shots?" The little copper ran away like a 10 year old!!! Tiny went straight back to cooking his sausages without batting an eyelid. I think they may have got him later with a few extra arms and legs, as he wasn't at his camp for a while after.

Yep, there was a lot of that going on that day, and they wonder why we dont RESPECT them!!! anyway they sure bring back memories.
Love the photo's Gos. We could go on forever about the things that went on up their
The girls sure didnt like the dunnies been used for burnout pads!!!!
Loved the bullrings up in the camp ground, and god forbid anyone that went thru, and didnt preform, seen one guy who wouldnt do the donut, so they burnt his bike!!!

[Gosling1]

.....Classic photos Gos, is that also a nice GPz9 or 750 in the shot just to the left of "PC with hair" .....

cheers Phil - those 2 young blokes standing at the back of the picture were also from Canberra, and camped near us. Both of them were on 250's - an RG and a KR2fiddy. They hung around a bit after they got there, then dissapeared......so the RG was hotwired and ridden all over the mountain by all of us, most of Saturday !! when they turned up on Sunday lunchtime - it was parked where he had left it, but with no juice left. I think someone mentioned that they had borrowed his bike for a ride to the shops or some such bullshit


yeh Billy, lots of flanno up there alright. What a pack of westie bogans we all were.....

Jonno - I did maybe 3 or 4 good burnouts on the Pearl that weekend, but a couple of years later I blew the back tyre of my mates MkII doing burnouts on every patch of concrete you could find - even those small slabs that sit under taps ?? we had to get a tyre sorted out on the Monday morning before we left ......didn't plan that very well....


Here are a couple more shots from back then....

Draging a sled around behind the Pearl, somewhere up the top of the hill. This must have been 1983, because the back guard is missing and so is the bikini fairing......




If you look closely in the background, you can see the sheila with her melons out. It was a big deal !! no really it was !!

(and just for Wattie if you are reading this mate - see the helmet in the foreground ? yes that black thing with the goggles ?? yes - that is the same lid I wore on the CDT a couple of years ago - with the Toecutter goggles. I throw nothing out. )




A view back through the Macphillamy Park curves...




Up at my oldies place, getting ready to leave. This would have been 81 or 82 ?





The things you see on the Mountain - a Moto Martin z900. Classic, and back then this was like a bike from another planet.....





Another classic from the same year (1982) - this was a fully kitted-up H2 750 triple. In an interesting quirk of history - those rearset footpeg hangers you can see on this bike - now reside in the 4th Dimension. I got them several years ago in a job lot of H2 stuff. They were the ducks guts back then......




and a last great shot from our epic ride through the long way via Trunkey Creek and Tuena for the 1982 meeting - this is 2 of my best mates , Andy on his cafe-racer CB400/4, and his brother Jeff on the cantakerous old XS650 - which did this trip with the carbies held on by an ocky strap !!! No shit, the manifold clamps had broken and one of the rubber manifolds was cracked, so the best way to hold the carbies in place was with an ocky strap from one side of the frame around to the other and back again. It worked, but on the way home, he finally holed a piston from the constant leaning of the mixture in #2. This happened just short of the turn-off to Yass from Boorowa, so we were close enough to home ........ahh good days.......

[the kid]

All the cool kids had Phantoms

[born green]

Jeeze the photo's give away the 80's, that for sure... good stuff.
So Gos u would have been there the day robbie(morhouse) was killed? sad, sad day that, and the reason why, made it even worse
He was a close friend of a good mate of mine, was at brian's bike shop the day when the news came thru, when u see a tough grown man break down and cry like that... sad day..
Robbie was a brissy lad, and when he was racing that T160 trumpy. it was built by a guy called Allen Chance, who lived at the gabba in brissy, worked out of a dirty run down shed out the back, strange man, met him many times as a young fella, and never ever seen him wear nothing but a pair of jocks!!! even when working on bikes, or meeting people, thats all he ever wore!!!

[zxnator]

great pics guys...thanks for shareing.