When I first read that I thought what... Zheds gonna be bombing round a 1 mile dirt track on a bike with no brake, 140 bhp and a hair trigger power band Ah... on a DT175
No brakes you say? Have a look at the front wheel. It's drum, not disc, so that's more or less the same thing as having no brakes! Probably for the best though because front brake + loose surface = pain, suffering and loss of amenity
There’s a flat tracker school you know. It’s never too late. Being old just means that if you smash yourself up, you only spend your last couple of decades in a wheelchair (when you were going to end up decrepit anyway), rather than the best years of your life! https://flattrackschool.co.uk/
There are 2 riders in this picture.. Michael Dunlop is tucked in behind Guy Martin at the Southern 100 Photo Credit Andrea Rivers
May 1941 HMS Mashona sinking. The only British ship sunk in the 'Sink the Bismark' action. It was heading home to re-bunker when a German plane dropped one bomb that went through the deck and exploded in the engine room. My Uncle Tom was a CPO Stoker (so very lucky to get out) and bizarrely he's probably one of those dots scrambling down the side in this unique photo. He was sunk a second time on a later Malta convoy. He survived the war. A lovely gentle man.
