Anyone got times from last nights practise.

I hear Larry was quicker on the 350 than his 500 :shock:

Its cause its not his...........

Larry had the misfortune of suffering a broken soldered joint on the BM in first practice and had the Ducati knocked back for its first practice for not having a Shark Fin of a requisite size, that could not be rectified by the time the first sesion was over.

It all looked pretty bleak on Friday night until the Duc made it through for 2nd practice, for its first ever outing on the roads.

Larry having never ridden the bike before took it very easy and only on the 4th and final practice lap did he start to wind it up a bit. The Duc qualified in 22nd out of 29 starters and this was satisfactory to all.

Larry went out in practice on the BM on Saturday afternoon and managed a satisfactory qualification for Sundays race.

The little Duc went out in the First race of the Pre TT and Larry managed to take her up to 17th by the 2nd lap. By the end of the race Larry managed to bring her home in one piece in a very creditable 15th place.

No leaks, no parts dropped off and she looked just as good after the race as she did before it.

All in all I am personally very pleased with the very first outing of the Duc, and Larry has provided some very good feedback to me, for some slight modifications and improvements for implementation prior to its next outing (whenever that may be). He liked the little bike so much, he has booked it for next year and I am only too happy to let Larry ride it for me again, whenever he wants to.

Larry is out today on the BM and hopefully he will manage to get 2 finishes this year at this event.

Larrys Butenuth BMW




The Little Duc

Pre TT - 250/350 Singles Result

1 15 Rich Hawkins 350 Ducati MKIII
2 5 Chris Palmer 350 A J S
3 11 Paul Dobbs 350 Aermacchi
4 22 Allan Brew 348 Drixton Aermacchi
5 19 Meredydd Owen 349 Seeley 7R
6 43 Keith Dixon 349 Seeley
7 38 Harold Bromiley 350 Bultaco TSS
8 82 Mervyn Stratford 247 Greeves Silverstone
9 16 Terry Kermode 350 Aermacchi
10 23 Mick Moreton 350 Seeley 7R MkIII
11 40 Peter Lockwood 350 AJS 7R
12 95 *Tim Oliver 250 Ducati Monza
13 63 Nick Penny 349 Seeley 7R
14 99 *Alan Smallbones 250 Ducati
15 41 Larry Devlin 349 Ducati
16 39 *Edward Poole 349 Manx Norton
17 64 Ken Edwards 350 BSA Goldstar Seeley
18 68 Don Ellis 348 BSA Goldstar
19 111 Ian Smith 250 Ducati
20 78 Rich Bool 250 Ducati Mach 1
DNF 96 Roger Birkenhead 250 Ducati MkIII Widecase
DNF 108 Dave Spencer 250 Villiers
DNF 86 Jamie O'Brien 250 Atkins Greeves
DNF 42 Jim Snaith 349 Aermacchi Alad'ora
DNF 100 Mike Barry 250 Ducati
DNS 4 Derek Whalley 349 FCL Aermacchi
DNS 61 Ian Rycroft 349 Greeves Oulton
DNS 98 Ian Ward 250 Ducati Apex
DNS 35 *Frank James 350 Ducati MKIII

I think that Larry managed to bring home the BM today in what can only be described as bad conditions.

Just want to say Malcolm that the little Duc is a little gem, she looks great an it was nice to meet you.

Glad the pensioner had a good run (Cargo made me say that)...... :wink:

Just as a little aside, Guy Martin won his race, pitty he only to the Hydrex team he was doing a parade. Maybe they will forgive him.