Letters

Dear CR Excellent magazine as usual,thank you,have been a reader since issue one. Loved the article on Ray Knight and as with the one on Ernie Bryant it brought back memories of BFRC and Racing 50 club meetings at Cadwell Park. l remember the collecting area down by the cafe where you pulled out your…

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“Good article about the ex-Frank Perris machine in issue 195. A handful of these made their way down under in the late 1960s; Melbourne rider Peter Jones rode one to many wins.”

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Dear CR Thanks for the excellent article about Ray Knight in CR196. It brought some good memories back for me as I started racing in 1964 on a production Honda 250 CB72, which was also my ride to work bike. Like so many others I was in my late teens and mad as a box…

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Dear CR I really enjoyed your article on the Frank Perris Suzuki TR250. It took me back to 1972 when I also had a TR250 ex-Doug Lunn (nice chap). It was really a super six with TR250 heads, barrels, carbs, ignition, etc. It had MP forks and a Grimea front brake. It was about as…

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Dear CR I just bought this bike, but I do not know his story, can you help me? It has a Yamaha TD1C engine, Rickman front fork, gas tank, seat and fairing Rickman product. The frame and all the polyester was yellow, before being black and white but who is the manufacturer of the frame?…

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Dear CR The article in issue 195 of the mag about the Suzuki TR250 ridden by Frank Perris reminded me of the first 250 twin raced by Frank Perris a few years before his 1969 rides. Cadwell Park, September 16 1962, Perris and Hugh Anderson both turned out on the works Suzuki machines. Anderson rode…

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Dear CR I have a couple of questions that I hope can be answered by somebody with a better memory or better references than me. The first concerns the crash helmet of Fumio Ito during his brief 1963 season. My memory is that the main colour was a light blue, but there was some sort…

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ASG identified 1 Dear CR, Please find enclosed a letter and a picture I received from Andreas Georgeades in 1972. It will give you the identification of the bike Mark Kulczyk saw in 1973. The exhaust pipes are a bit different, but it is the same bike. Andreas Georgeades was a Greek, who lived in South…

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Dear CR Great to see those lovely pictures and words about the ‘Rob North’ BSA Rocket 3 in the last issue. It’s good to see an original bike with genuine 19in wheels, forks and period Dunlop tyres. The part that interests me is that it was always said that the T150 was made by adding…

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Dear CR Having a lot of time spare around 1966/67, I lived quite close to Mallory Park and a regular at the Wednesday practice was John Hartle. He was making a return to racing after a heavy fall, so I sort of latched on, helped bump start his bikes, lug jerry cans and get the…

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