Dick Mann has passed

Spent some time with him at Beezumph 17, great bloke and very entertaining. RIP
 
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Soon we will all be gone and nobody will remember what it was like to build, tune and race your own motorcycle. Computer games are the future.
 
Dick Mann was a road-racer. When you race, you often live more in one second than many other people live in a lifetime. I don't feel sad about his death, I rejoice that he lived and set an example.
 
What a legend from the day I could afford a motorcycle magazine and he might be in it.
86 years old is not a bad innings and he made the most of it from day one.

Race on Dick Mann.

Dick Mann has passed
 
Dick was a motorcyclist first, road, dirt or off road. If it had two wheels he was on it.

I may have told this story before but a few years ago (ok, it may be ten by now) we were at an AHMRA event in Southern Oregon doing the trials. Dick was checking at the end of the section. It was a steep sandy downhill to where he was. I was on my Bultaco and pulled the compression release to slow me down. Dick had such a grin on his face as I pulled up, "So good to see someone who know how to use that!".

Second story, probably second hand, about the Sandy Bandit ("infamous" British bike dealer in Portland) when asked about Dick Mann. "He could win any motorcross race on a pogo stick". Somehow I didn't doubt that.
 
Yup DM was truly the complete “class act” racer , R.I.P.
 
I feel privileged to have seen guys like Dick Mann racing. 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder'.
 
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