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The Spring Motorcycle Gathering 2010


    On Sunday 18 April 2010

    Brooklands Museum will host The Spring Motorcycle Gathering.
    Come and celebrate the anniversary of the first motorcycle race held at the historic motor racing circuit in April 1908.

    A specially invited entry of machines with genuine Brooklands history and some historic record-breakers will be on display in the paddock and demonstrated on the famous test hill and Members' Banking. One make Club area Trade stands Push-bike challenge.


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    The Norton-Hughes oufit now known as "LPD 1"
    was raced at Brooklands by Pat Driscoll.


    Bert Denley on the motorcycle and sidecar

    Pat Driscoll acquired in 1929 the machine when Nigel Spring and Bert Denly moved to AJS. Pat used it until he was forced to give up racing by the Austin works team who considered it to be too dangerous. Although Driscoll achieved over 200 firsts in nine years of competition his main interest was in Record attempts and long distance racing. He became one of the outstanding tuner-riders of Norton in the 1920s and 30s and was a contracted Norton works rider. In 1930 he was awarded the British Motor Cycle Racing Club ‘Gold Star’ for lapping the Track at over 100 miles per hour.

    Although Pat Driscoll preferred to use the Webb Heavyweight forks at Brooklands the machine is fitted with Druid ES forks. He won at least one sidecar race in 1931 using these forks as his sponsor, Bill Lacey, was contracted to use Druids. Most of the pictures show the original sprint tank but for long distance races the tank developed for the 1926 TT was used.





    opnamen van een eerder jaar...



    2007

    John & Rob waren er afgelopen weekend bij.
    John doet op zijn Rapidhare weblog verslag !

    Ivan Wicksteed raised the 500 cc Outer Circuit record to 118.02 mph

    with M.Winslow's 498 cc Supercharged Triumph Speed Twin

    on 8th october 1938* (Motor Cycle)

    Brooklands 2010

    Kruifer productions

    SO

    STEEDS VERASSEND, ALTIJD DICHTBIJ


    Motoring George Spauwen


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Some Brooklands Record Breakers...


    The World Famous Track in former days



    The Clubhouse



    Toeschouwers alom!

    Zoals als eerder beschreven zijn wij op dinsdag 5 aug 2008 met onze motorfietsen op het wereldberoemde historische Brooklands Circuit geweest en hebben wij ook diverse uiterst fraaie Brooklands record breakers kunnen bewonderen...


    Brooklands 2004

    Tijdens ons bezoek aan de West Kent Run stond er deze
    hele fraaie Norton/Jap Brooklands 500 cc uit 1936.


    Het fraaie 500 cc Jap motorblok..de grote carburateur met dubbele vlotterbak...


    de Norton versnellingsbak...


    de Coventry Eagle petrol tank......... en werkelijk een lel van een Brooklands can !

    Frank Clarke aan de start te Brands Hatch 1993


    Frank Clarke (2008)

    Ik durf het bijna niet te vragen...maar mag ik ook een rondje?

    Vervolgens konden we een bijzonder fraaie

    Norton racer met zijspan aanschouwen...


    The Norton-Hughes oufit now known as "LPD 1"

    was raced at Brooklands by Pat Driscoll.
    It was originally one of the official works Norton team, ridden by Bert Denly.

    LPD 1 was actually the number of one of the engines. The machine here today presents owner , Roger Bird, says that this is the version that Pat Driscoll

    and Bert Denly used to set 18 long-distance sidecar records

    in october 1928 using a 588 cc engine.

    de Norton versnellingsbak...echter hier met handschakeling.

    Brough Superior

    ("The Rolls Royce of Motorcycles")

    Brough Superior is one of the most glamorous names from the Brooklands era.
    Peter Lancaster's version is one with outstanding pedigree. Built by Freddie Dixon for the factory to break records, it was the first bike to achieve a lap of more than 125 mph at Montlhery, set a world record at over 129 mph at Arpajon in 1929 and was the first motorcycle to set a lap of Brooklands at over 100 mph with a sidecar. That record was never been broken.


    LAST BUT NOT LEAST !


    The Supercharged Triumph Speed Twin 498 cc 1938

    In the 1930's, several riders experimented with superchargers

    as a way of extracting more Speed from their machines.

    Ivan Wicksteed raised the 500 cc Outer Circuit record to 118.02 mph with M.Winslow's 498 cc Supercharged Triumph Speed Twin on 8th october 1938* (Motor Cycle)


    eh.. da's 188.83 km per uur!

    Ivan Wicksteed was one of those riders. He fitted an Arnott supercharger to a Triumph Speed Twin and in 1939* he set a 500 cc Lap record at 118 mph. That record was never beaten because Brooklands closed. The Brooklands Museum wicksteed Triumph is actually a replica of the original, but sounds wonderful and is in every inch a racer.

    *(1938 of 1939? >> ik denk toch dat 1938 juist is !?)

    Uiterst slank & rank...



    Het Speed Twin motorblok...


    Old & Fast...very Fast!



    also equipped with a pair of Brooklands Cans.




    World Famous Record Breaker Sir Malcolm Campbell rides his 496 cc Triumph Speed Twin on the track during an interval at the meeting held on the 3rd september 1938.

    (Motor Cycle)

    Ik ben dus in goed gezelschap!

    Daarom wilde ik graag naar Brooklands om dit "apparaat" met eigen ogen te kunnen aanschouwen en op vooral niet te vergeten de "heilige" grond...







    Motoring George S. on his "standard" non-supercharged Triumph Speed Twin 5T 500 cc 1939 enjoying his visit on the Brooklands track!

    I' be back soon...
    So Stay Tuned!

    Mototring George Spauwen

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