(05-08-2009, 09:33 AM)Dave-M Wrote:

(04-08-2009, 09:42 PM)cregnybaa Wrote: The first photo of the mv leaning against the bank does'nt appear to be hailwoods the number looks like 3 and the screen appears to be compleate mike's number was 5 so the first photo must be ago's bike the photo of mike on the bike is not that good looks like he could be pointing up or down and i think it would be possible to start a bike on the track that goes off on the left just before sarah's.

If you read the caption to the photo you would have known that the bike in the top photo was Ago's MV. As far as i know the crash happened shortly after Sarah's if it had happened right at Sarah's ( being a righthander) the damage to the MV would i imagine be to the right handside of the bike and not the left as both the MV's are damage to the leftside. So if Mike used the track just before Sarah's to restart the bike he must have gone against the direction to get to this track also if you look closely at the photo of Mike paddling the MV you can see that the bank where it joins the road on the right of the photo is higher up the photo than the bank on the left suggesting that it's down hill and it also looks like Mike is starting to turn the MV round, it certainly would be hard to paddle the 500 MV uphill to start it, i think down hill being the easier option is what Mike opted for.

Your right i didn't read the caption i didn't need to read it to see they were two differant bikes but obviously you never read the caption below of which it states mike started the bike down hill against all the regs so thats the answer to one of your original questions