Manky Monkey Motors

Set out for Madeira Drive Brighton on Sunday last, at 5.30am to avoid the queues at Goodwood en route. Got up to Brighton just after 7, found a good parking space, had a full breakfast and then the bikes started to roll in, much slower than other years due to bad weather forecasts, there seemed to be a lot less stalls, the band didn't start to play on stage until late after midday. Here are just a few photos that caught my eye.



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Nice photos Rick. I reckon BMW café racers are the next big thing. Love the white & orange one.

Now this bike is a real piece of history - along with the builder/rider.

This is ‘Blue Peril’, built by a chap by the name of Bill Bragg back in 1962 – here’s the story:

In 1958 Bill Bragg built what is considered to be the first double-engined sprint bike 'Twin Thing', which carried its two Triumph engines in an extended Norton Featherbed frame. He persevered with this bike for 18 months or so, but never really sorted out the coupling of the two engines.

In 1960 Bill decided to go back to a single 650cc Triumph engine and made a purpose-built sprint frame - again a first - with fuel carried in the top tube and oil in the main downtube. This became Yellow Peril (the first of 3 Perils).

Amazingly, the tubes for all Bill's frames were bent by heating to red hot and then bending them in the grill of the drain in the gutter outside his house! The rest of the specification comprised a Norton/AMC gearbox and clutch, and twin Dell'Orto carburettors. This simple set up formed the basis of Bill's many sprint and drag race bikes for the next 40 years.

After building ‘Scarlett Peril’ (with rear suspension to help deal with bumpy tracks), Bragg set about a new project for the 1962 season, this became ‘Blue Peril’.

'Blue Peril', used the same frame layout as 'Yellow' with the rear suspension innovation of 'Scarlet Peril', but added a supercharger to the mix.

Bragg is credited as the first person to supercharge Triumph twin engines, and he was helped by the Allard Motor Company, which supplied the Shorrock supercharger. Once the initial fuel starvation problems were overcome the bike ran 11.19 seconds for the quarter-mile, very much on the pace for that period.
When Bill emigrated to Australia in 1966, the bikes ‘disappeared’.

In 1999, Ron May, president of the National Sprint Association and one of Bill's rivals, died. Ron owned four sprint bikes and a couple of circuit racers. When these were purchased from his estate, the Perils were discovered in a collapsed shed at the end of his garden where it is believed they had been since 1966. They were rescued by current sprinter Bob Anderson and subsequently rebuilt by Tony Huck.

In 2006 'Blue Peril' was completed and the engine run at North Weald in August of that year.

Bill Bragg's inventiveness and innovation put him firmly at the forefront of the development of sprint and drag race bikes in the 1960s. Putting the Perils in context, they pre-date George Brown's Super Nero and all of Alf Hagon sprint bikes, and thus are of immense historical significance in the development of the sport.

A bit more info
http://www.ukdrn.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2650

 ;D I thought that machine might kickstart you in to action Tony. ;D

Its a dirty job, but someon's gotta do it!
Seems you have the measure of me sir!!  :D   ;D

Out of all the pics, the pedel cycles caught my eye, think they were pretty cool.

Is the shot of the 2 girls a photo of a photo Rick?

Yes Andy the poster was of these two females astride an AJS, full shot took in a lot of rubbish on the sides, this was on the AJS club stand.

Some lovely stuff there but this is one of the ugliest things I've seen for a long time!

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