I need to go back and watch the mountain section in full. He looked in pain through all of that and the wind was causing problems.
Re: Dougie's TT wheelie lap
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:05 pm
by simo
It's been done before me thinks. A bloke on a DT 175, will have to look up the name. Still quite an achievement and a bigger achievement for the bike as he normally needs more than one to finish a Trial.
Re: Dougie's TT wheelie lap
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:56 pm
by freeridenick
From what they said on the programme I got the impression the other guy had never managed to complete it.
Re: Dougie's TT wheelie lap
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:03 pm
by Kev L
Wasn't that Dave Taylor? Can't remember whether he completed it, but I think he was diagnosed with cancer around the time he was doing it.
Re: Dougie's TT wheelie lap
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:14 pm
by sirch345
Kev L wrote:Wasn't that Dave Taylor? Can't remember whether he completed it, but I think he was diagnosed with cancer around the time he was doing it.
I though that as well, that Dave Taylor did that, and iirc on a Yamaha XT500,
Chris.
Re: Dougie's TT wheelie lap
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 12:31 am
by macdee
I also think it was Dave Taylor that did the lap of the tt course
DT also did a lap of the North west 200
the bike was modified like Dougies
With the foot pegs on the rear axel and a motor to spin the front wheel
Re: Dougie's TT wheelie lap
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 1:23 am
by vtwin goody
sirch345 wrote:
Kev L wrote:Wasn't that Dave Taylor? Can't remember whether he completed it, but I think he was diagnosed with cancer around the time he was doing it.
I though that as well, that Dave Taylor did that, and iirc on a Yamaha XT500,
Chris.
It certainly was and the bike is hanging from the ceiling in jurby junk on the iom
Re: Dougie's TT wheelie lap
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 9:01 pm
by sirch345
vtwin goody wrote:
sirch345 wrote:
Kev L wrote:Wasn't that Dave Taylor? Can't remember whether he completed it, but I think he was diagnosed with cancer around the time he was doing it.
I though that as well, that Dave Taylor did that, and iirc on a Yamaha XT500,
Chris.
It certainly was and the bike is hanging from the ceiling in jurby junk on the iom
Good man, now you mentioned that I do remember seeing the XT500 there in a TV programme about the IOM. I can't remember which programme it was, it may have been one of Henry Cole's,
