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Re: Embarrasing moment.. name the rider
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:07 am
by Strika
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!!!!
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:12 am
by MadKaw
Perfectly correct....!!
and doesn't he look different now..
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:27 am
by MickLC
tanyathecheeky wrote:looks like you've sorted your collection since I saw it Gos
That's just what I was thinking....I guess he had to do something for all that time while his computer was busted
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:54 am
by Strika
MadKaw wrote:Perfectly correct....!!
and doesn't he look different now..
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!!!!!!!
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:26 am
by HemiDuty
That one of Max's going past vert is still one of the best wheelies around.
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:33 am
by Phil
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:52 am
by ducati_paul
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
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:09 am
by MadKaw
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..
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:15 am
by Strika
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!
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:49 am
by sneakypete
SHIT!!
i actually knew the answer as soon as i saw it!!! never forgot reading that article.
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:25 pm
by Neka79
Josh Brookes?? shit...looks nothin like him methinks...so when did this happen?? what year??...how old would that of made him??