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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 01:05 PM
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Default Re: Age of owners
Originally Posted by Mr. Max
The smell I associate with motorcycles is Torko (sp?) gear oil. However, racing is of course, castor oil. My dad took me to sports car races in the fifty's and everyone was burning the beans. I liked it so much that I burned it on the stove to make the house smell like a race track. My parents were not happy with me.
I used to go to Brands Hatch in England to watch club races with a work mate who raced a bike he had purchased from John Surtees. I loved the smell of R (Castrol R) in the air. He had raced for the MV Augusta team a few years earlier, he said it was not fun at all. On a works team there was only one way to keep your seat and that was full throttle all the way, rain or shine. MV came up with their world beaters a few years later, 500cc bikes ridden by Surtees, Hailwood and Read to championships.

I rapidly lost interest in bikes when a car drove into the side of me when I was 22 and bent the frame of the bike, I escaped injury but decided the car was safer. Nothing like the open road on a bike though, especially at night on the twistees, with Lucas headlights - I must have been mad.
 
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