TT races1962
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Re: TT races1962
I saw some of the footage from the very early races. Those bikes were big engines in a frame and the riders were wearing little protection. Nutters.
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Re: TT races1962
Those helmets and goggles get me! Accidents must have been messy in those days. Balls of steel!
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Re: TT races1962
Ask kiwi to dig out his video tapes of that year. The old boy would have been in his teens back then ![Covered Laugh (giggle)](./images/smilies/emoticon-0136-giggle.gif)
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Re: TT races1962
Video tapes? laddie we used 8mm back then..Blade wrote:Ask kiwi to dig out his video tapes of that year. The old boy would have been in his teens back then
ANyway you're the same vintage ya cheeky git!
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Re: TT races1962
PMSL
Were clearly not the same vintage
"Laddie" haha, thats something me old Grandad would say ![Covered Laugh (giggle)](./images/smilies/emoticon-0136-giggle.gif)
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Were clearly not the same vintage
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