sideblog: Confessions: Tommy Croombs

Thursday 3 February 2011

Confessions: Tommy Croombs

Thanks to Mark Shubin. Click the page to read it.

6 comments:

dave skooter farm said...: Skooter Farm material!!! sign him up!!; 3 February 2011 at 22:22
Diplomate said...: Less is More !! Keep It simple !! etc etc
This is motorcycle journalism at its peak.; 4 February 2011 at 01:03
Nick said...: Great view on life, certainly if there had been a pr man about at the time, they would have topped themselves; 4 February 2011 at 07:23
Harley said...: With views like that, he'd have his own TV show roday!; 4 February 2011 at 09:07
John said...: "Blackburn-Wallis"...?
From The Vintagent blog
(http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2008/09/dirt-track-collection-for-sale.html):
Another JAP motivated machine is this Comerford-JAP Special, which was originally designed by George Wallis for the Surrey motorcycle dealer Comerfords. The original Wallis, from 1929, used a Blackburne engine; the frame is based on the Harley 'Peashooter' (Wallis had been competition manager for H-D in Britain), and the total package weighed 185lbs. There are a few significant departures between these two 1935 machines - the Wallis machine has forks similar to an early Scott, with a short telescopic tube near the axle (originally using Andre dampers as well), while the Martin has more typical short girder forks, which are still the standard today. When JAP introduced their own 'Dirt Track' engine in 1930, the Wallis became suddenly an unbeatable machine in the hands of Wal Phillips. It sold through Comerfords originally for £35 as a rollling chassis, or £75 complete with engine. [More on the Wallis can be found in the July 1986 Classic Motorcycle]; 4 February 2011 at 22:23
Sam Kingston said...: This... This is amazing.

Very inspiring.; 2 March 2011 at 03:12