Paddock Gossip
Classic Mechanics show goes up a gear
The October Stafford show has a big reputation when it comes to providing special guests and entertainment, but this autumn’s edition is set to beat all records.
As is tradition, the 25th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show (to give its full name!) has a guest of honour... but on this occasion the October 13/14 event has three –Terry Rymer, South African Jon Ekerold, Italian racer Pier Paolo Bianchi, plus the rarest collection of race machinery ever seen in one place.
Londoner Rymer burst on to the British national race scene in 1987 when, at just 19 years of age, he beat all of the top UK riders to win the Superstock race at Brands Hatch on a privately entered Yamaha FZ750. And to prove this was no ‘home’ circuit fluke he repeated the feat at the next round at Mallory Park.
By 1988Terry had turned professional, and in 1989 he won
