I only realised recently that Mike’s Dad owned Kings Motorcycles in Manchester. Spent many hours in there at weekends. Ken.
If I remember correctly Kings Motorcycles had branches in quite a few cities in the UK in the 60’s, with their main showroom/offices in Oxford.
Club racing at Darley Moor in Derbyshire on a cold March day in 1970,it can be cold there in mid summer. Number11 about to hit the tarmac at the Hairpin in a 500cc heat.
A few from the Spa Classic last year. #7 is the one we went in. Next in the red is a 1966 E type 4.2.
When we first visited Kings they occupied several older shops in a terraced row on Deansgate, then later they moved to fancy new mainly glass premises on Chester Rd; or maybe it was Stretford Rd? Then they disappeared, only to return in premises that are now the Steam Museum just off Deansgate, I think? At that time Mike was out of retirement and riding the Ducati bikes. Ken.
The Ducati that Mike rode on his return to the IOM TT on the 3rd June 1978 was supplied by Steve Wynn of Sports Motorcycles. I’m sure you would have visited them also Ken.
the famous corkscrew, there lost his life in indycart Gonzalo Gonchi Rodriguez in 1999 he used to say that was going up a hill without seeing anything, only the sky, then going down and turning at the same time, to the left and then turning to the right to the bottom ...scary
Yes, dead right, I’m getting confused. That would have been Wynn’s shop where the Steam museum now is. Think they had Mike’s bike on display there at some time? Ken.
