Richard, you could always set off the shops and once getting there and seeing how dodgy the anti -social distancing was turn back Just a thought Hope you are doing well BTW Feel great, thanks. Could do with a 'sport' mode switch on the pacemaker, mind. A cable on the garage door broke today...so I'...

Amazingly...it was Rainey that ended up in a wheelchair

Yes, Rush was brilliant. Even my g/f, who is not into motorsports though it was fantastic. You had a great contrast between Lauda and Hunt. I don't know if Sheene had ayone who was quit e so Ying to his Yang...maybe Roberts? The real comparable rivalry in motorcycling was Rainey v Schwantz. There wa...

The story Steve Parrish tells about him and Sheene 'practicing' there in a Rolls-Royce is bloody funny. They drew quite a crowd. Wasn't that a loan car and the tyres ended up bald, Parrish said it was like being in a boat going round corners :lol: Sheene also handbraked a car into a ditch and nearl...

Just up the road would be nice..

When Sheene returned to the ring, the Germans showed him all the changes they'd made to make it safer (which consisted of tying straw bales to some of the trees).
When they asked him what he thought he said..."you'd have to be bloody William Tell to be able to hit one of the bales."

That's the one....Sheene had an agreement with Suzuki that he didn't have to race at the 'ring, providing he was leading the world championship. Then, one year, he wasn't...and he realised that he'd better learn the circuit fast. He persuaded RR that he was considering trading in his Rolls for the l...

The story Steve Parrish tells about him and Sheene 'practicing' there in a Rolls-Royce is bloody funny.

They drew quite a crowd.

Yes, I winced when I saw his hand go out to touch the Armco

Painful....I thought that bike had all sorts of stuff like traction control and cornering ABS to stop that happening?

Or was it just a case of going too fast for the laws of physics?