Earls Court in the 80'S

[Gary72]

Was talking to some riders yesterday and they was telling me about how the track was parket flooring with wooden jumps, everyone had slick tyres and sprayed them with hair spray
Anyone got any pics of the track or vids as it sounds quite fast and scary at the same time.
Thanks
Gary

[MartyC]

Wasn't parket flooring, urethane finished concrete the standard Earls Court flooring.  1st year had dirt jumps and berms, 2nd year had wooden jumps and berms.  Both as slippery as fook and hurt like hell when you went down.

If anyone has pics of the 1st, 14's or 15's age group or any other racing there please post them up  .

[Longun]

Somewhere I have a photo of me and Charlie Reynolds both x-ed up over the tabletop. Will try to dig it out and scan.

[gossa]

and after Earls Ct (bike 82 and bike 83) it moved to Olympia where they had the first 'Champions of Champions' race.  I just gave Carl Alford a cool pic of him and charlie Reynolds, Gary Llewellyn and Sid Salisbury speed jumping the first jump, i'll see if i can get it scanned.

I was running 1"3/8s with all white michelin shopper tyres on my Robinson, quality!

[RATTY]

I raced there Gaz, both years. The funniest thing was weeks before the race trying to get hold of shopping bike tyres and nicking my mums hair spray. The ozone layer above Earls court must have been non-existent

[Brandy Truffle]

^^^^ LOL The week the Raleigh Dealers got mullered for Raleigh Shopper tyres..i remember that..lol.

Earls court smelt like a whores handbag come moto time. 

[showtime]

i rode there in 82 

i think Stupps still has a few pics from then?  pretty sure i remember him posting up a sidehack pic of him & Chris Young 

[Stodgy]

Yeah I remember that...and the one at Olympia, the track and quarter sucked:

[kdw712]

me and three of my mates went to the 82 one i'm sure

got my yellow uni seat there

[MartyC]

Didn't go to Olympia after the crap ramps at the 83 Earl's Court race, figured it was more hassle than it was worth  .

[gossa]

i rode there in 82 

i think Stupps still has a few pics from then?  pretty sure i remember him posting up a sidehack pic of him & Chris Young 

Bill, do you have a pic?  I raced hacks at bike 82 with Andy young.

[billstup]

Here you go Clive :

[gossa]

cheers Bill, who's riding the hack with Chris? That doesn't look like Andy plus Andy would have had some punk band t shirt and arm sliders instead of a race jersey!!!

Awesome!

[billstup]

Thats me on the pedals with Chris, Clive, Chris wanted to save his legs for his own age group so I had to pedal in the hack, and fook me they were heavy back then 

[gossa]

Thats me on the pedals with Chris, Clive, Chris wanted to save his legs for his own age group so I had to pedal in the hack, and fook me they were heavy back then 

Awesome Bill, I raced on the hack with Andy, i think it was the year after this, the race when Andy patterson came over on Skyway. One of the raddest things i've ever seen was Trevor Chapman and Gary Southgate jumping the coffin doubles at Birmingham Wheels on the mongoose sidehack, just mad that was, must have been 15-20 feet back then!