Bill Horsman Motorcycle Racer

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Bill horsman motorcycle racer. Fick astounded the dutch motorcycle scene in the 1960s and 70s with a number of fabulous projects, all completely figured out and built by himself. The following was submitted by warwick biggs (january 2005) i am an old phoenix club member from the early 70′s (before that i was a southern cross member in the 60s) and now live in wollombi in the hunter valley in nsw. The ducati crashed and the velo retired after also crashing. The 250 class would have been a suzuki benefit but for the efforts of “barney” horsman.

From the late 1950’s when bill started as a passenger in scrambles for laury. On the first two laps, mike broke the lap record twice. The engine of this intriguing classic racer started life as a 250 cc honda cb 72. But a race machine is a race machine so in the place all are welcome.

The 80 mp/h mark was reached in 1961, when eric hinton pushed his norton to 80.76 mp/h (129.94 km/h). He was at every race meeting i attended from the mid 50s to the late 60s. Bill horsman was the sole local entrant in the junior class. The start of the main race was a shambles, with len atlee, greg johnson, bill horsman and several others tangling on the grid and falling in a heap.

See more ideas about racing bikes, racing motorcycles, vintage motorcycles. The phoenix motorcycle club of south australia This entry was posted in motorcycle racing and tagged bill horsman, classic racing, graham besson, honda 250cc cb72 super sport, honda 350cc classic racer, honda 500cc classic racer, honda cb72 race kit, jerry kooistra, mallala motorsport park, otto mueller on 20/05/2017 by geoff dawes. Beatrice “tilly” shilling was a british aeronautical engineer and motorcycle racer born in 1909.

Taveri, the rider he was duelling with, then broke the lap record again catching mike. Guzzi hired bryen on the strength of strong finishes on his nortons at assen, after bill lomas and dickie dale were injured. As a teenager in europe at the time i was fascinated by these exotic races which were often quite well documented. The most impressive ride in the event was the team of dave burgess and joe eastmure on a suzuki t20.

Trotter managed only the first 28 miles before retiring with a sick engine, but bob jackson led the curtailed race (three laps instead of four), closely followed by gary long, with bud jackson in sixth place, and tom jackson 20th out of 35 starters. In 1996, brian or­gan­ised an aer­ma­c­chi from dick lin. I was in my early 20′s when i was racing and attending adelaide law school. Bill rode his usual gutsy ride on a ds7 yamaha to win the 250 class by four laps and place eighth outright.

There is close to nothing on the web about the marlboro series which took place in new zealand for 5 consecutive years from the 1973/74 winter ( sorry, summer down there.) to the 1977/78 one. The two classes were combined, although you had to enter both categories if you wanted the title, and the prize money. I have 60 or so photos taken at the easter meeting at bathurst in 1970.i'll split them into manageable bites.beginning at murray's corner.then up to skyline. Bill horsman rode the pittmans r5 yamaha 350, like a man possessed, to win the 500 class.

Aboard a see­ley for the 1995 se­nior, bill av­er­aged 102.55 mph to take fourth place. A japanese motorcycle company called honda, who were only to happy to lend mike their little 125cc honda racer. Horsman was even run over by ron toombs’ 750 kawasaki before he got to his feet, but by this time blake and his tz350 were long gone. He cobbled together a tr2 and a tr2b for the bathurst meeting.

Bill horsman was back with his quick 250 bultaco, but despite the challengers, the day saw toombs at his brilliant best, winning the 250cc, 350cc, unlimited a grade and unlimited feature events. In the early 80s it was converted to a potent 500 cc racer by the famous dutch bitza wizard cees fick. One ducati 450 ‘desmo’ and one velocette 500 contested the race. This entry was posted in motorcycle racing and tagged bill horsman, classic racing, graham besson, honda 250cc cb72 super sport, honda 350cc classic racer, honda 500cc classic racer, honda cb72 race kit, jerry kooistra, mallala motorsport park, otto mueller on 20/05/2017 by geoff dawes.

90 mph/h came up in 1972, when bill horsman and ginger molly were credited with identical. The newly released tr3 was still on order for horsman, and the adelaide motorcycle mechanic was aware of a common problem with the outgoing models. Bill lacey norton cs1 1931. They rode consistently fast all day and took the 250 class win and third outright.

Motorcycling south australia is pleased and excited to announce that the man they call ‘barney’, the great bill horsman, whose racing career spanned 50 years, will, on november 24 th, become the 7 th inductee into the motorcycling sa hall of fame, and will take place at the titanium security arena at findon. Dennis mccullough quits road racing : Ulsterman dennis mccullough has quit road racing after being seriously injured in the accident that claimed the life of his close friend gary dynes, and young star, andrew mclean, at north monaghan last year.