Old photo

Like a lot of folk I suppose, clearing out cupboards and boxes.

Too many CDs. Too many old photos pre digital age.

This one is from my one and only overnight stay with Beemer club.

June 1987 at Ullapool.

My then recently rebuilt R75/5 let me down shortly after this photo when a RH rocker broke near Inverness.

I removed the broken part, unscrewed the plug and rode the rest of the way home on a 375cc single.

Vibrated so much that the big chrome horn shook itself loose on the A9 near Aviemore. I had to walk back a bit to find it. Shame the face was a bit scratched. And what a racket it made.

Had to sell the bike soon after as 3 kids under 7 and a working wife meant an end to bike riding for quite some time.

ps - I’m the handsome young dude front row 2nd left with hair and a ‘tache in the Black Magic leathers. I shared a room the the Red suited, sashed gent in row 2. Graham I think his name was.

Been at the funeral of several of those.....

My wife had a K100 with a Rickman fairing in red, and it was sold in Scotland so that could potentially (a long shot) be her old bike.

Dick Boyd is it? 5th from the left ,showed me the seafood shack at Oban,lovely chap,I know he's not well now.
Great picture.

Then there was J Stewart Esq. with his sprogs in 1979 I think. Demo-ing an early 70s Tyrrell round Ingliston.

Front row seat in grandstand put him within arms reach. I remember Noel Edmonds in a similar shot another day.

And a cold and damp Knockhill track in 1986 I think. Niall MacKenzie was doing well on his Armstrong.

Niall’s mum saw me and Junior No.2 eyeing up the bikes and shouted to Niall - “Hey Niall, let the wee boy sit on yer bike.”

So he did.

After 10 years of karting in the 90s, the wee boy learned to ride his own bike round Knockhill in more recent years

Lodgey said:

Dick Boyd is it? 5th from the left ,showed me the seafood shack at Oban,lovely chap,I know he's not well now.
Great picture.

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Dick is now pretty ropey....no bikes, no cars, not allowed to drive. Sold up in Garmouth & moved away.

Sorry for fucking the thread but that's sad news about Dick,very sad.