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A true story or what? - Bill Snelling - 16-07-2007
- thewitch - 16-07-2007
Sounds like the Creg to me....
- beepee - 17-07-2007
Yes,I too thought of the Creg as it is the only pub coming down the mountain,but, unless things have changed dramatically where is/was the ditch and even now there is no pavement,plenty of fields though.I think this one will take a lot of searching to find the answer.
- larryd - 17-07-2007
Interesting one Bill, and like every story I reckon there's a grain of truth in it, but no more.
To begin with, Gus rode a "2 1/4hp" (249cc) Levis in the 1920 Junior TT and, having been as high as 5th on lap 4 (of 5), he finished 7th and 2nd 250.
Unlikely, then, that this mighty "off" occurred during the race.
However, on the 3rd day of the practice fortnight (yes, fortnight!), Wednesday June 2nd 1920, "The Motor Cycle" of June 10th recorded that he "took a toss" at the Bungalow, although it was stated that this was "without injury to himself or his machine".
Certainly the Levis, a two-stroke single, had an outside flywheel, but in the light of the above contemporary report it does seem likely that Gus "egged the pudding" a bit to make a good story for the kiddies' magazine.
IF it had happened as described, the hotel to house the flywheel would obviously have been the Bungalow, but I don't believe it did.
In support of this, the contemporary TT copies of "Motor Cycling", all of which I have, make no mention whatever of Gus Kuhn falling off at all that year!
So - a good story, but a story nonetheless :!:
- DCLUCIE - 18-07-2007
Was just thinking, when did the pub at the Electric Railway stop at Snaefell dissapear?
- Don Simons - 20-07-2007
1957/58 the hotel went together with the alleged flywheel adorning its wall.
As a Cargo headline would say:
"Muddled Memories and Murky Mysteries Multiply at the TT"