HISTORIC RACES & ISDT CDs' NOW AVAILABLE

HISTORIC Motor Races Archive here has allowed us to produce CD's of it's contents over 300 images with the text on each, several Land Speed Records Attempts, Sand Races from 1920's over 300 mostly unpublished pictures researched with background text to all £20. & £2.50 Postage.

OR if you would like a CD of the ISDT again with 700 plus images of the Olympics of Motorcycling, International Six Days Trials Held here in WALES from 1936 ARCHIVE compiled by myself you can obtain what results of 20 yrs of expensive research here @ £20 per CD plus Postage £2.50 it contains covering text with around rare genuine original images.

Each one is individually numbered to enable us check if someone unathorised tries to copy.

Also those Races in Wales at Pendine (which was far from the most used venue) plus Fairwood Airport, Southport Sands, Aberavon Beach, Broughton Bay Clyne Valley, Singleton Park, Pembrey (Cefn Sidan) Beach, Penclawdd's 16 Wrecks in one calm night has coverage, Carmarthen Park Speedway, again JAP Vincent Brough Superior Excelsior Zenith McEvoy Norton BSA Rudge Velocette Scott Ariel AJS Matchless & there are even rare pics of the Italian ISDT Team at Eppynt TT Course in 1949 ISDT Speed Trial.
Well over 300 original pics plus ID text and tales available at £20 & £2.50 Postage.

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That Methanol fuelled Bike ridden in Top pic at our last race by my old friend & Passenger sadly now late Kenjo Ken Jones & driven by self, we were Welsh Champs at the time, Carmarthen Park in 1967, our Built and Tuned by Owen Greenwood machine frame had originally been bought 1964 at a Llanelli scrapyard for a fiver! & jacked straight, then built into our incredibly planned racer. Cunningly thought out in Baldrickian theories, after my wife & I returned from Dubai a guy, John Reeve down near ABERPORTH called to ask if I could identify the bike he had, 'sidecar had been hacksawed off & was too rusty to use.
I saw it & honestly could hardly believe my eyes, I asked how much he would accept for it' & John replied that if it was my old Racer that won Championships & led some Brit Finals etc then I could take it away, I was left with a rubbishy rusted frame which was declined by frame restorers, passed on to Dai Purslove of Abercrave who bent T45 tubing, cut and sleeved frame bits into it and returned it to me refusing to accept a penny!.

Oh well, I had to rebuild it & turned it into a posher than rubbish slightly mean machine now with the old Norton 88 type engine it was born with without a Triumph motor we raced it with.

It now sits near the Bar in my front room, with no Petrol no oil in gearbox or engine, or my wife Janet would thump me let it stay there never to go in anger, it carried us well & deserves to be allowed rest.

The Cups on it came from Eppynt's Silverware and had been brought out for the Royal Welsh Show where only a top Class invitation entry could be present for the event.

Organizers would not accept our application to ride since on our past performances we had won nothing our Ariel SQ4 racer & we had only just received this latest machine although it still had a single carb and was far from in top race trim.

We were incredibly miffed since we were the only Welsh riders applying plus members of the organizing Club as well, 'day before that 1965 RWS Show Closing Thursday evening event I had a call saying that there had been one racer withdrawal and they needed one in a hurry!, YES YES we will be there was the prompt reply the heavens opened as we left for the showground, somehow the soap surface levelled all & top powered people seemed easier to race amongst in practice, when one of those top boys who used to leave our Ariel Sq4 well behind the previous season chuckled remarking that we were really 'going' today, I honestly thought he may be mickey taking.

Come that first heat, we won, semi final we won, final I blew it and came second behind Ray Edge's Norton.

Speedway payment is totted up by points for heats semis and places & I found we had a fair sum of Prize money for our second over all placing, plus a tiny pair of Silver Cups from Eppynt TT Silverware & was almost overwhelmed.

The Race Committee saw that Show Parade Ring track becoming chewed up, even more slippery under rain and racing, they asked if the racers would decide whether they could call off their racing 'now' by accepting double money on their points plus keep any silverware they were entitled to by present points scored levels.

Ray Edge caused me a flutter when as Points leader entitled to the 'Big Cups' and money bravely declared no we will continue to race off for all, the huge crowd had remained waiting for the answer, (we would have probably looked pansies to call it off anyway!).

Risk of losing our first ever little Cups had me close to panic, racing again someone else could beat us & we could say goodbye to those little cups, the last final saw us trailing by one point, still second.

Starters flag fell, a desperate charge to first bend after some bumping saw us out in front & on a slippery track we just rode as best we could, by the last lap nobody had come alongside or passed, coming around the last bend on full now or never whack for the line, skating wildly I glanced across to see someone entering the Chicane, way behind but still held full throttle regardless of how the tail wagged towards and over the line where Kenjo could be heard laughing uncontrollably & felt slapping me on the back painfully hard, "we did it" was conveyed to me loudly, ooh 'eck or words to that effect came to my mind.

Some of the Carmarthen Club Members including one really good racer who had his application turned down were assembled at the bend we ran towards as we slowed down and I saw asome hats being waved and even a Burbery Deerstalker heading skywards, Welsh Farmers too roaring that home grown had proved best on the day.

Presentations of Show winners followed on a platform from Sparkling Red Coated Senior Steward Lady whom I later found was the person that originally turned down my entry application!.
As I stepped down an old chap in a Columbo style raincoat smiled then told me to look after those Cups from Eppynt TT, they had lain unpresented for 12 years or so, I later found that that he was the J D Evans who had been on the Eppynt TT Race Committee & whose name was on the Cups as he had Awarded them.

Years after, I researched what was racing before my days, Sand Racing, Land Speed Record attempts, crashes, Scrambles, Memorable Races at Isle of Man, Grass Track Racing, Trials and ISDT, International Six Days Trials, the researches of years became an Archive which I now have collated to provide large CD's.

Win one race? after that you change, you always want to win and go harder & faster afterward.

Driving home with the frame in my car I called home to pick the Cup I kept, then headed for Kenjo's house, quietly placed or old frame with a cup on it there, then from the phonebox opposite called Kenjo & asked him if he would like one last sit on our old machine, he laughed as I told him to look out of his front window, and shortly after emerged grinning to add his Cup to the other.

We even had a picture taken on the old frame again, just like big kids.