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Post by drewski on Oct 14, 2017 17:33:56 GMT -5
You saw a Britten!!!! That's a bucket list thing for sure! The other week I was wearing my KTC shirt out at a local brewery where an older gentleman saw it and stricked up a convo about triples and eventually about the Barber museum saying how "i have to go". I think I'll take him up on that now The Britten is pretty cool alright, but that whole Barber museum is one 'pretty cool' after another. I think you'll find we've been encouraging y'all to plan a trip to Barber Motorsports Park and the museum for a number of years.
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Post by pipe welder on Oct 25, 2017 9:19:16 GMT -5
Some more pics from Barber Motorsports Park: We even got to meet some moto-celebrities, Cook Nielsen and Steve MacLaughlin along with 2 other guys I can't remember. Steve in the hat and Cook on his left. Great trip! Super fun! Cut short by Hurricane Nate, but still a great weekend! After asking John Cooper,(former Cycle Canada editor) who seems to know all people from the motorcycle biz, The man on the far left is Leo Goff. Memphis Motor Werks master machinist and now an actor.
You can see some of his amazing machine work on his public facebook page.(link below) He had worked on some famous Norton drag bikes and he also mentioned flowbenching heads for the Britten when it was being developed. www.facebook.com/leogoffmotorcycles/For you guys who don't know who Steve McLaughlin is, I dug up some of the details on his background.
Steve McLaughlin was a successful road racer in the 1960s and 1970s. He pretty much invented “Superbike” racing in the early 1970s and on March 5, 1976 he won the first-ever AMA Superbike race at the Daytona International Speedway. His Yoshimura Kawasaki teammate Wes Cooley. He wrote: "In 1981, I went into business on my own, and a couple of years later Bill France II, and his brother Jim France, asked me to help them change the premier AMA class from the two-stroke-based formula to Superbike. That went well, and by 1988, it led to World Superbike…”
That first year of World Superbike was the first FIM world championship to have worldwide TV coverage for all its races. McLaughlin sold World Superbike at the end of the first season and started another company that produced races in Mexico, Australia and all over Europe, during which time he developed a partnership with German marketing company Moto Motion International. With them, he organized and promoted nine FIM Grand Prix in Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany between 1990 and 1997, before creating the Pro Superbike series, which raced throughout western and middle Europe from 1990 to 1999 – again usually with live TV, produced and directed by McLaughlin himself.
His latest company SMI, back in the States is promoting flat track racing. For 2016, Steve and his company, SMI, are promoting at least three flat-track events: April 9 at COTA (MotoGP weekend), the May 21 Sacramento Mile, and the July 30 Charlotte Half-Mile.
Steve and his father, John, are both in the AMA Hall of Fame
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Post by pipe welder on Jun 30, 2023 12:57:11 GMT -5
Whoooooohooo it's 2023! Were planning to Head Back to Alabama....This is the 2017 Thread but 2023 is time to go again If any of you can make it, were staying at the Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park Hotel 205 967 2700 Rick usually finds some great rates on flights out of Buffalo with a low cost car rental. But if you guys want to see what it's like down there with your bike there: Here's a link to an early morning GoPro ride from the hotel to the top of the hill, track side at Ace Corner @ Barber Motorsport Park. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTdAVMZLMmI
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