These TT shots were taken between 1961 & 1967 with my Halina 35, a 35mm film camera with fixed lens. All are scanned from postcard sized or smaller prints, some from my own darkroom prints so the quality is very poor but the negatives have long been lost. They may bring memories back though, they certainly have for me!
Oh for a DSLR and telephoto lens then!!
The two pix above were taken at the 1965 Senior TT when both Ago and Hailwood were dicing on their MV 500 4 cyl bikes when it rained and both riders came off at Sarah's Cottage. Ago called it a day but Mike re-mounted and carried on to finish the race, When he passed us at the Gooseneck his screen was smashed and the exhaust pipes ere flattened.
Click below to hear the magnificent 250cc Honda 4 having it's neck screwed in the hands of Bob McIntyre, (the greatest rider never to become World Champion),on the TT course..........MUSIC!
Bill Ivy at Governor's Bridge hairpin on the lap he became the first rider to lap the TT course at over 100 mph on a 125cc machine. People said he was hitting the walls in places, he was going that fast. Later he was killed in
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Hugh Anderson on the 50cc Suzuki twin
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Each year the weekend after the TT Races the 'Race of the Year' event was held at Mallory Park when a lot of the riders from the TT would bring their works bikes over to the race on their way to the next World Championship event. It was a fantastic meeting with Honda's Yamaha's MV etc. I remember one year we arrived on the Saturday to camp overnight and Agostini was doing lap after lap on the MV to try and learn the course as he had never been there before. Great stuff!
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Hailwood 500 MV 4, leads John Cooper 500 Norton out of the hairpin at MalloryHailwood MV after another win |