Presumably ' modified production , not 1970 either . Note Grid position Vs Japs .He'd knock them off ( NO , clean up , though elbowing was legitamate ) on time occasionally . Iron barrel & hot days stymed power .



Earlier 1976 at Newlynn , ' Production ' Stalwart Vs the Rice Burners , Cnr top of the straight . Sweeper onto that uphill climb
was a intresting vantage point . first road race Id attended , on the Suzuki 250 & mates 380 . ring ding ding .
Seen plenty of speedway & M-X aforehand .







These are the ' top corner ' , the corner onto the straight was a 70 mph left 80 deg. ' sweeper '
with a tricky exit , then ' straight up ' the rise , to this corner .Left hand all .

Robbie Dean I think was the second generation of ' Deans Motorcycles in Tauranga ' , you can have any Mk II as long as its 32

Moved these here , credits to Original shutter clickers . Half of em 'd miss em if left in innappropriate posts .

Is that Robbie Dean?
if so saw him race early '70's around different tracks in NZ most notably for me ,Awapuni estate in Gisborne, didn't he lowr/modify a C'do frame to race with?
Regards Mike

cant say on the frame , was a set of cases with 3/8 alum. webs welded all over, radially like a Rotax or sim , and bearing surounds . On the bench when I collected my carbs , around 1980
. ALWAYS a front runner , informative to observe rideing , though the throttle appeared to have one position after he'd ' turned in ' , ' ON ' ( the stop ).

That first pic is marvelous.

That first pic is marvelous. +1

Is that New Lynn as in Auckland?
I just did a Google and it probably is...
The guy on the Suzuki is Paul Pavlovitch who I had as a coach recently at Pukekohe....and I bought some Thruxton headers off....
Same photo of the Norton and Suzuki.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jorvikiwi/5222237725/

Yea . Top is ' Bay Park ' , Tauraga / Mt Manganui .( liberated picture from a Kiwi foto fing )

New Lynn is ' around ' Crown Lynn ' stite . A big Clay Quarry from years back . Sir ( ) Tom Clarke pottery & Brother / Brickworks , Their Father started the opperation .Clake raced a Ferarri , Bent it and self at the bottom of Conrod
( Bathurst ) 59 and told to change his habbits or he'd be disinherited . So he took up Yacht Raceing . The Old Man did
the Yachts .Infidel / Ragtime Got the Transpac 3 times , when an old relic .
Liberated these pics from some forum somewhere where someone had posted ' His Dads Pictures ' . Mucho Grassious .

You can drive round counter clockwise and Dash Cam it for Us . Bus stop out of roundabout had a few hard dives left , early on , to miss the curb . Dean would howl round through it and out , about a foot of the kerb there .
Think they only ran that twice , and had one or two down Beaumont street way , years back .

All a bit snottey there now for that sort of thing ??

There is still some street racing ,Wanganui ( Whanganui for the PC) on Boxing Day and Paeora in Feb. I'm building up a bike to run at the Classic Festival in a few weeks at Pukekohe...should be choice.
Crown Lynn is now a sub division and New Lynn is a pretty busy suburb...the only racing there now is boy racers in hotted up Jappers doing donuts and dropping patches...

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Yes ; We'll expect some pictures then , Please . Is Pukekohe still going ? Thought it was at the New Hill Circuit there . ? ?

You pronounce Pavlovich , Eh . Had him instruct me as to how to hold youre mouth on a Z1 round Puke , Ran the Triton then

They were the worst of days ,they were the best of days . Will Shakespear I think . About the only sensable thing he ever did say .

Puke is on the way out as they have built a new track called Hampton Downs just south of the Bombays, I like it as it as its more of a technical track than a horsepower one .....thats what I have picked up after two CSS lessons and two track days.....
Hampton Downs changes elevation and has more corners as well as a surface that is smoooooth.
I'm looking forward to going for a thrash around it in a few weeks.
I'll post up some piccies.

I like how he rounded the number plate in the front of the bike for aerodynamics!!! I think he is using it as a fairing!!!

I was at Pukekohe today thrashing the Triumph Thruxton and I asked Paul Pav about the photo with him on the Suzuki and Robbie Deans on the Commando....he laughed as it was such a long time ago...and said " Robbie Deans could ride the arse of that Norton....up to 100 mph he was brilliant" ....he also mentioned the skeleton leathers....I only just noticed them.
I also asked about the New Lynn races.." oh the Ceramco Series ...I was just starting out then..."

Sadly the Thruxton hit the rev limiter in top...around 200 kmph....still enough to pass a few air cooled Ducatis....if you pick your moments.

There was a bloke there talking about a 750 in a Rob North frame that hunts Gixxers......I love stories like that....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25CSNjq6X5E The Name comes up here once or twice .

Another Kiwi Nutter , Crosby .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCgtMc1w ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eFYmSYp ... re=related Whoops .

Matt Spencer wrote:Another Kiwi Nutter , Crosby .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCgtMc1w ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eFYmSYp ... re=related Whoops .

Croz now lives north of Auckland and restores bikes according to a mate who sort of knows him. There was an article in one of the English bike mags....Classic Racer...? where he takes the Journo for a lap of the Isle of Man....keen or what.
Wanganui or Whanganui as it is now still runs every Boxing Day ( day after Xmas). I'm usually to stuffed from Turkey and Ham to go....