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Post by autofobe on Jan 22, 2015 16:00:12 GMT -5
Just an aside,in the previous pics #74 was mouse McPerson from Hamilton on a tr Suzuki. In the pic I posted # 4 is Mandy Radboard,looks like an H2r. Might be of interest to Sooperarthur as that rider was from Montreal & I think his H1r came from Montreal.Might be a leed to find the origin of his.
Brad
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Post by autofobe on Jan 22, 2015 16:07:24 GMT -5
Yvonne rode this bike at Mosport in 78.Dave Crussell owns it now as he does most of them.
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Post by daffey1 on Jan 22, 2015 17:00:55 GMT -5
Yvonne rode this bike at Mosport in 78.Dave Crussell owns it now as he does most of them. Luckey SOB
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Post by pipe welder on Mar 1, 2015 21:53:42 GMT -5
I was hoping you guys would have more racing pictures to show off.
Here's one great shot I found of Steve Baker who was my top favorite rider in 1974 after cleaning up at Mosport. (Read below)Steve Baker on the grid at Imola alongside future factory teammate Johnny CecottoThe information below was taken from an article printed in the Aug 26th/1974 Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper, On Sunday Aug 25th 1974 Steve Baker at the age of 21 won the three race CANADIAN MOTORCYCLE ROADRANG CHAMPINSHIP at Mosport Ontario. On the Saturday before the final Sunday races Baker won the 250cc the 500cc and the unlimited class qualifying heats. He also won the 125 heat which did not count for championship points. On the Sunday he won the 125cc, the 500cc, and the unlimited classes while leading entirely from the start to the finish. He also raced the 250cc class but had a main bearing failure and dropped out. In addition to the overall "Number 1 Plate" as Canadian Champion Baker also secured the class Championships for, 250cc, 500cc and Unlimited, and tied for first in the 125cc class. Not bad for his First Season As a Profesional road racer.
This article further stated "One of the closed matches of the day was the Over 350cc Production race won by Chris Manley of Toronto on a Kawasaki 750 by only a few feet by the larger Kawasaki 900 driven by Lang Hindle of Toronto."
It goes on to state that the sidecar racing was a big crowd pleaser with the 12 lap Championship race being decided on the last lap after Wheel to Wheel racing. The winning team was Greg Cox and Bill Davidson on their Kawasaki 900 powered side car.
(Photo's by Bill Petro)
That's the kind of racing that got you back to the track for more.
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Post by squish on May 20, 2015 2:06:55 GMT -5
The number 4 in the earlier pic appears to be an H1R versus and H2R – front drum brakes were rarely run on the H2R. Also on the #4 bike, the fairing appears to be H1R – this shape of fairing was primarily H1R, only used on very early ’72 H2Rs. Sooperarthur may indeed find all of this interesting.
John
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Post by sooperarthur on May 20, 2015 5:18:21 GMT -5
Interesting photo. Hard to tell but the fairing shape looks a touch different then the H1R. Brakes look proper, forks are hard to tell. Who is this number 4? My bike has been blue, red, silver in its lifetime from what I can tell from the old layers.
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Post by squish on May 23, 2015 14:56:31 GMT -5
The forks and brakes mean little. Especially the front drum brake. The first thing most racers of the H1R would do "back in the day" is replace the stock front brake with a Fontana front brake since the Kawi H1R front drum brake had issues, where the Fontana (4LS) front brake was well sorted. Front forks were also frequently changed for other types. But that fairing, it really looks like an H1R fairing. I am not aware of other fairings during that period that also looked like and had the shape of the H1R fairing. (Other - the only pics I have seen a drum on an H2R was at Daytona 1973. Yvon DuHamel reverted back to a black-painted front drum brake for Daytona 1973...for some reason...possibly he was unhappy with the weight of the dual disk setup on the H2R, even though I think by Daytona '73 the disks were beign crossed-drilled in order to reduce their weight.)
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Post by autofobe on May 23, 2015 20:09:44 GMT -5
As I said earlier,# 4 is Mandy Redboard & was from Montreal.The fairing does not look like an H1r to me.It looks like an H2r & that is the way they were painted.This Pic was at mosport in 73 so a front drum is possible. Sooperarthur,I know yours came from Montreal & that is what I said when I posted this pic a while ago.Could be a lead to yours.
Brad
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Post by sooperarthur on May 23, 2015 20:42:32 GMT -5
My thoughts as well on the fairing. Sorry brad I must have missed your earlier post. But thank you. I'll keep digging!
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Post by pipe welder on Jun 15, 2015 16:42:39 GMT -5
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Post by pipe welder on Jun 15, 2015 16:48:20 GMT -5
Andy had these great shots of the TZ.
Maybe Curtis can show Peter and Bernie at Cameron. They may like these.
Thanks for the collection Andy. Great memories.
I hope we get more people to dig some photo's out of those albums and get them scanned.
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Post by pipe welder on Jun 15, 2015 17:04:58 GMT -5
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Post by malc87 on Jul 26, 2015 6:18:08 GMT -5
The number 4 in the earlier pic appears to be an H1R versus and H2R – front drum brakes were rarely run on the H2R. Also on the #4 bike, the fairing appears to be H1R – this shape of fairing was primarily H1R, only used on very early ’72 H2Rs. Sooperarthur may indeed find all of this interesting.
John
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Post by malc87 on Jul 26, 2015 6:18:43 GMT -5
The number 4 in the earlier pic appears to be an H1R versus and H2R – front drum brakes were rarely run on the H2R. Also on the #4 bike, the fairing appears to be H1R – this shape of fairing was primarily H1R, only used on very early ’72 H2Rs. Sooperarthur may indeed find all of this interesting.
John
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Post by malc87 on Jul 26, 2015 6:21:22 GMT -5
Hi, just joined the forum. I would say the NO4 is a H1R-A which had the bulge in the bottom of the fairing Here is my own H1R in action in British Guyana with the same fairing.
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