Who Why Where?

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Revive this thread as i want to know who the riders are here.
Obviously a tour from i think 1990.And what track is that?

rides.webshots.com/photo/2571042810055106195LtFhLq

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The track looks like Poole.

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The Barclay building in the background tells us the track is Poole.
Of the riders only 1 i think i know & that's probably Mikhail Starostin kneeling down on the right?Jim, have you any idea!

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booeyboy said:

The Barclay building in the background tells us the track is Poole.

Barclays is a truly evil entity.

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Doesn't one of our members work there? ;D

Only been to Poole once and can't remember any of that

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Yes it was at Poole and it was in 1990.

That meeting took place on Tuesday 24th April and Poole defeated the Soviet Union 59-37. The Soviet Union did a tour of Division Two tracks and lost the series 4-1 with their lone win coming at Newcastle.

The meeting at Poole was the second in the series, and the CCCP team sccorers were as follows:-

Vladimir Trofimov 12+1 from 5
Igor Marko 1+1 from 5
Mikhail Starostin 1+1 from 5
Nikolai Kornev 1+1 from 4
Igor Zverev 9 from 6
Grigori Harchenko 9 from 6
Viktor Gaidym 4+1 from 4

As to who's who in the pic, I haven't got a scooby.

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Thanks kev.Got the answer from the BSF,but who was in the opposition side then?

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Gary Chessell, Gary Allen, Alun Rossiter, Craig Boyce, Steve Langdon, Steve Leigh and Rod Colquhoun from memory.

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Thanks kev

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jimblanchard said:

I'll sort out a better one tomorrow but I thought this one might suffice until then. I know where and roughly when but again, I am not sure who the riders are..

I know I'm a tad late jumping in on this one but I thought the race leader was Phil Collins...............

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Race leader looks like Electric Eric to me! If it is he and he's riding at #5 that puts the picture from 81 or 82, after Penhall left he moved to #1.

Obviously I'm talking about the picture quoted in the previous post.

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I took the photo around 1979/80. I have other shots of Phil Collins around this period and he was using a 'Monkey Mask' and jet style helmet and not a full face helmet.

He also looks a bit 'chunkier' than the young fellow in this shot and nothing like the same style which I am still convinced is Erik Gundersen.

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Could it be Kristrian Praestbro?

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jimblanchard said:

I took the photo around 1979/80. I have other shots of Phil Collins around this period and he was using a 'Monkey Mask' and jet style helmet and not a full face helmet.

He also looks a bit 'chunkier' than the young fellow in this shot and nothing like the same style which I am still convinced is Erik Gundersen.

Agree. I thought it was Gundersen as soon as I saw it. And I grew up watching Cradley every week.

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col said:

jimblanchard said:

I took the photo around 1979/80. I have other shots of Phil Collins around this period and he was using a 'Monkey Mask' and jet style helmet and not a full face helmet.

He also looks a bit 'chunkier' than the young fellow in this shot and nothing like the same style which I am still convinced is Erik Gundersen.

Agree. I thought it was Gundersen as soon as I saw it. And I grew up watching Cradley every week.

The race jacket looks like its from 79 or so (by 81 it had changed to incorporate the hammer logo only (see my avatar)). The leathers look like Erik's of the time and I have seen pictures of him from 79 with the number 5 jacket on, so it looks likely. The only doubt I have is that the pictures I have seen from that time of Erik seem to have his name written down the arm of his leathers which these don't have - maybe just a new set for later in the season though.