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AVE YOU SIGNEDup for
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Zealand reader’s tours yet?
Well, hurry up, you’re going to have
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The pictures you see accompanying
my words this month are from the
recent Australian Historic Road
Race Championships (AHRRC).
You can read all about how we went
elsewhere in the magazine but I
wanted to explain a little bit of fun
a group of my friends and I have
during the major meetings.
If you’ve ever participated or
attended a race meeting you’ll notice
a lot of people sitting around. This
is because there are usually hours
between races and over a four day
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in the time between races my friends
and I have introduced, Frankie and
now, Mandy. Frankie (the Frankfurt)
and Mandy (the Mandarin) are
boyfriend and girlfriend. They love
classic motorcycle racing and can and
will appear on someone’s motorcycle
at the most unexpected times.
The last time we saw Frankie was
at The Festival of Speed where he
unfortunately got cooked while
spending some time roaring around
Sydney Motorsport Park on a
GSX-R750. He popped up at therecent AHRRC and he’d grown a little
bit and someone was kind enough to
lend him a hat (bottle top) due to the
hot sunny weather. Mandy didn’t fare
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our Yamaha FZR1000, then jumped
on a Ducati 851, another FZR
and was last seen hopping on a Honda
CR500! The bad news for Frankie is
that two suspects were questioned by
the ‘racetrack Police’ with both denying
eating him. One had a smear of tomato
sauce on his lip, while the other had
a large drip of BBQ sauce on his
shirt. You decide who ate him, but I
dare say whoever it was, their plumbing
system would have got a good
workout the next day!
Frankie and Mandy have vowed
to make an appearance at the Island
Classic in January and The Festival of
Speed in March. If you see them, say
g’day and bring a plate if you feel they
need to be eaten for their own safety.
Enjoy!
Cheers, Stuart.EDITORSPEAKS
Oh...the wise words
that spew forth
Meet,Frankie!Three musketeers
talking race strategy