playboy Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 I today witnessed a very unfortunate and unbeleivable incident at todays British Trials Championship trial at Brimham Rocks. George Morton had just ridden up the big rock step going into section 2 when his bike caught fire. He bailed off and after a couple of attemps to put the flames out with water the fire just took hold. Eventually someone got hold of a fire extinguisher and Steve Colley was the guy who used it to put the fire out. By this time (approx 5 mins) it was too late and the bike was wrecked. It was incredible how fast this fire took hold of the bike. I took a short video with my phone which was taken just after a minute which I have posted here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmLBeebj1p0. You can see how bad it was in such quick time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betarick Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 That looks expensive! I was there today and missed it! looks like ther will be some cheap rev3 parts on ebay soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a slack dab Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 There was a mention of rebuilding it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabmeister Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 Maybe something to do with the petrol leaking from the Rev 3 carb when stopped. Beleive it or not, I was once told by Lampkins that 'they are designed to do that'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telecat Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 NYL was there and the problem appears to have been electrical near the radiator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Photos of this added to front page article. Looks nasty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeble Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 (edited) yeah did look nasty, my dad said that was a write off. he wont be using that again. Edited August 6, 2007 by weeble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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