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Greg Hansford video interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_yPNyYaqqA

nice one Billy !!

Thanks for the link Billy !
The.. Green God my all time Australian motorcycle racing hero !
Seems only people racing in the 70's remember (or know )...just how good... Gregg was !!!!

Jarno Saarinen was my all time idol... even named my dog, after him !
Like too many others,tragically taken from us, before their time...

Nice find Billy

Did you also see this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug8_EGpm ... re=related

Gardner in the 85 Swann series

and this.....

Bathurst from 1981

Now those blokes had big Cajonas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSlro-4 ... re=related

Glen wrote:and this.....

Bathurst from 1981

Now those blokes had big Cajonas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSlro-4 ... re=related

Glen, good clip.
I was at Bathurst in the pits.
The following day on that same bike, a controversial accident ended Dennis Neil's racing career (..& very nearly his life )
...going up mountain straight, wheelie over the crest.. & the front wheel... "fell out"... @150mph

Dennis was booked to ride British Superbikes ( for Honda)
... only a few weeks after that fateful Bathurst meeting.

Glen wrote:Nice find Billy

Did you also see this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug8_EGpm ... re=related

Gardner in the 85 Swann series

Ooohhh , the "moments" in that footage

badinov wrote:

Glen wrote:and this.....

Bathurst from 1981

Now those blokes had big Cajonas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSlro-4 ... re=related

Glen, good clip.
I was at Bathurst in the pits.
The following day on that same bike, a controversial accident ended Dennis Neil's racing career (..& very nearly his life )
...going up mountain straight, wheelie over the crest.. & the front wheel... "fell out"... @150mph

Dennis was booked to ride British Superbikes ( for Honda)
... only a few weeks after that fateful Bathurst meeting.

I remember watching that and Will Hagon's stupid coments .
Great clip Glen

I always thought that Dennis Neill had actually looped it going over the hump in Mountain Straight ?? He was carrying a video camera on the tank at the time, I can recall the footage really clearly, as the front wheel started to lift when he went over the crest.....and it just kept going up and up !!!

That 85 Swann series footage has been on ABC2 a few times over the years, its always good to watch, especially with Robbie Phillis and Mal Campbell dicing ......great stuff really....

Gosling1 wrote:... as the front wheel started to lift when he went over the crest.....and it just kept going up and up !!!

And, now you know ...why !!

Without doubt, Dennis's accident was caused by the fact that a (unnamed) mechanic in the pits had failed to secure the quick-release axle clamps on the front wheel of the CB1100R. When the bike wheelied on Mountain Straight, the front wheel literally fell out of the clamps and, when the front came down, the forks dug into the road, precipitating Dennis's career-ending accident. Kent Miklenda who crashed the Shadowfax at McPhillamy Park on the same day, was in Casualty a couple of bed down from Dennis in Bathurst hospital. He maintains to this day that listening to Dennis screaming in pain was one of the most horrible moments of his life. On a better note, BBDN turns 60 in October, these days enjoying the good life in sunny Queensland.

Speaking of Bathurst videos, if you watch this one, from the Easter Carnival, 200, the last ever time that bikes raced there, you'll hear yours truly on the microphone! It's weird hearing yourself on a video from 11 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Er8XHD ... re=related

Great clip
Gregs neice and nephew run our local cafe and from what they've told me the whole family are motorsport nuts. Gregs son Ryan has just made his debut his year in the V8 ute series.

Here's Gregg at OP in 1976 (my own photo - very proud of this one)



And here's Ryan, taken in 2009. Standing to the left of the bike. His brother, Rhys, is riding one of Gregg's old KR's.



Those who know him say that his resemblance to his late father is even more unnerving than this photo indicates.

where was that last photo taken Phil ??

Gosling1 wrote:where was that last photo taken Phil ??

At Mt Cootha, a hillclimb event a couple of years ago.