I met Mal this afternoon when i went to buy his old sprint bike chassis, he built it in 1969 and raced it locally powered by an iron 6T motor and later a Hillman Imp engine. This is him in 1970 at Elvington, he flatly refused to be in any photos today!
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He is retired now and as his winter project last year he dragged it from under a cover where it had been for 34 years and "did it up a bit". His wife must have thought he intended to use it again hence the sale to me ..
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In his tiny workshop there were a few interesting looking sheets which it turned out covered the bike he built in '73 as a replacement to house the Imp engine...
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A Kawasaki Z250 powered by a K4 Honda engine that his son used to sprint...
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Everyone said he was too old for Streetfighters so he built himself one a couple of years ago, a GS750 with big bore kit, sports cams and nitrous, as with all his projects it cost about £50....
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He "found" this ZB350 Gold Star in a shed near his work 20 years ago...
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And finally this is the motor he originally used in the sprint bike, he built the Tribsa in the early 80s and still uses it...
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He says "i never did any good or won anything, i just like building stuff and i hate standard bikes, if anyone told me to do something a certain way i just did the opposite". I would thank him on here for the bike but he hasnt got a computer and had never heard of a Blog. Top bloke.