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Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 31-10-2004
Dose anyone know of Mick Grant web site or address?
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 31-10-2004
You could try <A HREF="mailto:info@motopower.co.uk">info@motopower.co.uk</A> Don't know if it is still valid or not through.
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 01-11-2004
YUK !
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 01-11-2004
My sentiments entirely.HM
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 01-11-2004
Oh, dear, poor old Mick. Inclined towards foot in mouth...
I remember someone many years ago saying."Oh...I hear the sound of falling Velocette...must be Mick Grant...
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 01-11-2004
am i missing something here? or just too dumb to understand what you are all hinting at?
ade!
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 01-11-2004
I think Mick said something about sidecars once?
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 01-11-2004
Yep, He wanted them banned from the T.T he also wanted all riders who were not full time sponsored professionals banned. I.E anyone who worked for a living to help pay his way and buy his own bikes.
Don't think it would be much of a T.T. with just half a dozen riders
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 02-11-2004
The same person got off his crutches to race after telling the newcomers they were getting in his way, the year about 1979 is that correct Tom.
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 02-11-2004
Yes Pykey and a truly controversial figure who was also the most expert of panel beater with his fists.
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 02-11-2004
Don't tell me he had one of those amazing fuel tanks that hold less at the end of a race than at the beginning? Like the loaves and the fishes the other way around.
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 02-11-2004
i always thought that was steve parrish :-]
ade!
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 02-11-2004
Nope!! Mr Grant was the man with muscles, the Funny thing is I talking about just a few months ago to one of the most famous oil company trade barons and generous, helpful people of the day to all the guys down the the line who watched him when he did it.
Well documented in the press and T.T Special and caused a lot of bad feeling at the time, a privateer would never have got away with it.
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 02-11-2004
One of my greatest memories involvong Mr Grant was when he rode the John Player (Number 10) Norton.
It was interesting to see his style compared to the great PJ Williams.
One looked like an accident l;ooking for somewhere to happen and the other was poetry in motion...
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 02-11-2004
Mick Grant what a tosser
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 02-11-2004
What an interesting thread, fascinating facts. I suppose now that the photo I had taken with him in 1990 is not worth all that much. lol.
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 02-11-2004
Poor old Mickey! Speaking as a sidecar person, i think he sometimes opens his mouth and lets his tummy rumble, but as a person, I always found him Ok.
He was the original accident seeking a venue, but so were some of my best friends...(no names here.
He loves cats....
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 02-11-2004
My sentiments Helen, Mick was a tough, gritty proffesional who was as good on the roads as he was on short circuits.Not wanting sidecars was his opinion, shared unfortunatly by many but I can't personally agree about that, doesn't make him a lesser rider or devalue his achivements.
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 03-11-2004
Do'nt know what this is all about but talking of opinion I remember Chris Vincent being reported as saying sidecar passengers were an unnessecary weight to carryand he could go faster without them
Re: Mick Grant? - Anonymous - 07-11-2004
i wonder what his view on classics would be