Did anyone go to the Bikers Classic at Spa? Although not as big as the Cenntenial at Assen a few years ago. I went with TT winners & 50cc World Champion Ralph Bryans & Con Law 3 days of nostalgia and spine tingling sounds from a multitude of MV's Gilera's Paton Yamaha MZ's & the 4 cylinder CZ, 50cc Jamathi kreidler etc.The riders present was like who's who of World champuonship racing.We shared a garage with Freddie Spencer,Randy Mamola,Kevin Schwantz & the ever popular Luigi Taveri.Also present were Massetti,Ubbialli,Venturi,Duff, Motohashi,hard man Heinz Rozner, De Vries,Anderson,Rod Coleman,Surtees,Mertens,Freymond,Sarron Lazzarini,
Read,Hartog,Ankone & many more.It was an event to remember with steam coming out of the camera.Also had over 130 photos signed, thanks Bill your a star at such short notice.We made sure there was a copy for all the riders.Motohashi's face as he was given 4 TT photo's of himself on the 125 & 250 works Yamaha 4's was a picture in its self.
Congratulations to the organiser's for putting on such an event.

Now that has completely ruined my day. Envy is a terrible thing.

Wow!
I do wish I could have gone to that!!

One thing that suprised me in all that was your
mention of Wil Hartog.
Somehow, I thought we had lost the Dutch giant.
So, that was good news!
I presume some of this will be on a website
sometime.

Mike

With alittle help, I found the following.

<A HREF="http://www.spa-francorchamps.be/en/index2.html">http://www.spa-francorchamps.be/en/index2.html</A>

thought some of you might be interesetd!

Mike

Would someone kindly tell the year that the motorcycle GP was finally run on the "proper" Spa circuit please. And while you're at it, the fastest lap time/speed. I seem to remember Phil Read lapping at 137mph on the MV.

Is this a figment of my imagination?

Well, the last year in which the old Spa ciruit was used for the motorcycle belgian GP was 1978 (last year for F.1 car GP: 1970). In 1977 Barry Sheene lapped it at an average of 137.15 mph. This still is - and it will remain for who knows how much time! - the fastest lap in motorycle GP history. Actually the fastest track used for motorcycle races is Dundrod.

Incidentally, Jo Siffert lapped the old Spa circuit in 1971 on a Porsche at an average of 162 mph!