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IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971 - montoya66 - 05-01-2019 All four slides labeled IOM and all four slides dated July 1971...  any info much obliged! 1. 2. 3. 4. regards RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971 - ago/mh1967 - 05-01-2019 I THINK 1&3 looks like the hairpin exit at Mallory park. 2. Signpost corner? 4. ballagh bridge? RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971 - Alfie Noakes - 05-01-2019 my hazy memory tells me Pic 1 & 3 is Mallory Hairpin with the white boards on inside, Pic 2 methinks is Creg ny Baa, I used to live up by Signpost don't recall ever seeing the road marked like that at Signpost, Pic 4 Ballaugh Bridge .... sorry - riders, bikes. outfits are a little before my "time" .. really good to see these fab pics and collective history, info, knowledge. RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971 - sticky - 05-01-2019 1 & 3 are definitely Mallory Park on the hairpin exit. 2 would be Creg Ny Baa and obviously Ballaugh for 4. Pic 4 would be the 750cc sidecar race as denoted by the black plates and it looks like there's a BSA sticker on the fairing. I wonder if it's Peter Sheridan & Philip Smith, both sadly lost in an awful accident at Oulton in 1971. My dad gave them a tow back to the paddock after they broke down in practice and if I remember right, they had a white outfit. They were entered on a BSA in the 1970 750 sidecar TT. Pic 2 is a 500cc outfit (yellow plates) and looking at the colour scheme, I'm thinking it might be the Woodhouse brothers. All this is just guesswork on my part! I've put a link to this thread on Steve's Place where all the sidecar guys hang out, so maybe we can get a positive ID. RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971 - ago/mh1967 - 05-01-2019 Pic 2, yep, looking at it now definitely the creg. Thinking about it, I don't think Signpost corner ever had road markings like that...but of course I could be wrong... again!! RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971 - sticky - 05-01-2019 Some info courtesy of Steve's Place: Pic 1: Bill & Mike Crook - Unity BSA Pic 2: The number 25 outfit is Eric Parkinson / Roger Osbourne (assuming the shot is from 1971) on a 500cc Crescent I'll keep checking the other thread and report back! RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971 - ericcane - 20-01-2019 Not sure,but I don't think that's the Crescent 2 stroke,Sticky.Seem to remember it was water cooled which the one in the pic doesn't appear to be. RE: IOM sidecar weekend challenge...? all dated Jul 1971 - SILJA - 20-01-2019 Yes, I can confirm that the Crescent outboard engine, that was used in some motorbikes, was water cooled. I worked in the firm that constructed it. It was a three cylinders two stroke 500cc. There were two models for motorboat racing. One on gasoline and one on methanol for the classes CS and C. The Swede A V Andersson raced his Crescent solo bike in the Senior TT 1969 and he was a DNF.