esuark Posted June 13, 2014 Report Share Posted June 13, 2014 I`m confused with the last 4 post don't know who it is but sure it's an Armstrong...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc2 Posted June 13, 2014 Report Share Posted June 13, 2014 It is an Armstrong (ie Pic in post #117) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted June 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 I`m confused with the last 4 post don't know who it is but sure it's an Armstrong...... Hi esuark, It was confirmed as an Armstrong by jc2 - so I have deleted the post and placed it in the Armstrong file....... Thanks to all for your help in sorting my filing system! Deryk Wylde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldilocks Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Hi Some of the pics with riders wearing CCMCC bibs look to have snow in the background ? The alan was always a summer trial but the lakes two day used to be january and used the same bibs I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted June 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Hi Some of the pics with riders wearing CCMCC bibs look to have snow in the background ? The alan was always a summer trial but the lakes two day used to be january and used the same bibs I think. Thanks for that, the same point had been nattering away at me, but I thought maybe one or t'other had suffered a dates change - but now I can look with fresh eyes, as it were. Deryk Wylde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted June 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Hi, Another negative separated from its identity - so can anyone tell us who, where and when, for this Montesa pilot pictured by Barry Robinson. Enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted July 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2014 Hi, Lawrence 'Sparky' Telling spotted in the 1973 Ilkley Grand National by Barry Robinson. Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparks2 Posted July 6, 2014 Report Share Posted July 6, 2014 (edited) Hi sparks, When he was a callow youth John Hulme collected, as a hobby, sales leaflets of trials machines - he has a virtually definitive collection which he used when he was compiling his book 'Spanish Trials Machines' , You could try him. Just a thought. Deryk Hi Deryk Thanks for the offer, if indeed it was an offer. But I think it unlikely that Montesa changed the publicity material for what were considered minor changes in specification. It was, after all, Spain in the late sixties and early seventies. Photo #127 - (Sparkie Telling) is much more likely to be the Inter-Centre Team Trial held on Rooley Moor, Rochdale that year. Unlikely that Sparkie would venture that far north from Minety near Swindon, for just a Yorkshire Centre event (Yorkshire GN). Kind Regards Sparks Edited July 6, 2014 by sparks2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted July 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2014 Hi Deryk Thanks for the offer, if indeed it was an offer. But I think it unlikely that Montesa changed the publicity material for what were considered minor changes in specification. It was, after all, Spain in the late sixties and early seventies. Photo #127 - (Sparkie Telling) is much more likely to be the Inter-Centre Team Trial held on Rooley Moor, Rochdale that year. Unlikely that Sparkie would venture that far north from Minety near Swindon, for just a Yorkshire Centre event (Yorkshire GN). Kind Regards Sparks Hi sparks, Could be the Inter-Centre - but wouldn't you have expected some sort of indication, say on the number plate, for the I/C teams? I do know that Gordon Farley came up for the Ilkley Grand National as a sort of practice for the Scott - and Sparkie was definitely a rider who liked a challenge. Maybe somebody could ask him? Cheers Deryk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparks2 Posted July 6, 2014 Report Share Posted July 6, 2014 (edited) Hi Deryk I take your points, of course. But in the uncropped version of the same photo, clearly visable in the background are the blocks of flats that are still visable on the Rochdale skyline today. Also visable are the line of pylons that used to stretch across Rooley Moor. I don't think riders have ever worn team colours. We're far too refined for that and leave them for the footballers. As an aside, my own early Montesa has a Swindon reg. number, and I often wonder if it had a connection to Sparkie T. Kind Regards Sparks Edited July 6, 2014 by sparks2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted July 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 Hi, Is this Rob Shepherd on his Montesa in 1971? Photographed by Barry Robinson, enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2stroke4stroke Posted July 22, 2014 Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 'Tis definitely he and looks to be that era but I couldn't be specific down to the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted July 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 'Tis definitely he and looks to be that era but I couldn't be specific down to the year. I thought 1971 'cos of the registration number - and he would surely be on a new bike? Deryk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted September 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2014 Hi, In 2013 Barry Robinson photographed Paul Norman riding his Montesa in the Sammy Miller series round organised by the Ilkley Motor club. Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted September 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 (edited) Hi, We know this is the 2012 Sammy Miller round organised by the Ilkley club - but we don't know the rider - so it's over to the armchair sleuths to recognise him, please. Photo: Jack Knoops, enjoy (sparks says: Martin Allen from Bristol - thanks again) Edited September 20, 2014 by laird387 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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