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From Murray at Kawi..

Always great to see how it was and you dont relise how much things have changed with Bathurst until you see footage like that and see what the track and facilities use to be like

Dig that groovy sound track man..

$20,000 prize money in 74. Internationals coming over for the race. Things have gone backwards.

I was there, saw it live.

I was 9....
so let's see...that would have made Ron....59

..,. and john laws, the golden tonsils himself doing the voice over!

Ah those were the days, thanks for the memories mate!

that was awesome camerawork wasn't real great back then. When was the last time bikes raced at Bathurst.

that was aesome!!!

Hawksam wrote: that was awesome camerawork wasn't real great back then. When was the last time bikes raced at Bathurst.

I was there in 85, easter meeting, they had a big riot that year, they stopped for a few years after that.
Not sure what year they came back, but when they did, 3 guys were killed on conrad straight, sidecar guys.
Think they stopped them again after that year, but i couldnt say what year exactly.

born green wrote:

Hawksam wrote: that was awesome camerawork wasn't real great back then. When was the last time bikes raced at Bathurst.

I was there in 85, easter meeting, they had a big riot that year, they stopped for a few years after that.
Not sure what year they came back, but when they did, 3 guys were killed on conrad straight, sidecar guys.
Think they stopped them again after that year, but i couldnt say what year exactly.

I was there for that too!! Pretty funny watching the cops get brave every now and then and come out of there compound only to be beaten back by the crowd and then have bottles pelted at the compound for half an hour after. Good times!

Strika wrote:

born green wrote:

Hawksam wrote: that was awesome camerawork wasn't real great back then. When was the last time bikes raced at Bathurst.

I was there in 85, easter meeting, they had a big riot that year, they stopped for a few years after that.
Not sure what year they came back, but when they did, 3 guys were killed on conrad straight, sidecar guys.
Think they stopped them again after that year, but i couldnt say what year exactly.

I was there for that too!! Pretty funny watching the cops get brave every now and then and come out of there compound only to be beaten back by the crowd and then have bottles pelted at the compound for half an hour after. Good times!

Yer,it was a full on riot, thats for sure, a bunch of us were on the mound, closest to the track,,they fire bombed the 7 news car's, that pulled up in no man's land. i remember a ute parked up a bit, full of jerry can's of fuel, it was a production line of making cocktail's.

The last bike race meeting at Bathurst was the Easter Carnival in 2000. Kevin Curtin cleaned up the main races and a sidecar team from WA won most of the sidecar races. I was head of the commentary team and it was a great meeting. Unfortunately, it cost the promoter his house and his business and all his money when a well-known Sydney TV station who had promised money and live coverage, welched on the deal at the last minute. The event WAS taped, but, due to contractual disputes on-going, the vision has never been released.