Hi all!
There is a few of us from the shire here mate, should go for a Natio run some time.
We used to ride natio 5 times a week , every day after work and actually used to run my superbike in after engine builds after work through there. I was the manager of the bike shop in Sutherland in those days. They tell me its very heavily policed now....i have seen many destroyed bikes in our workshop of those who ran out of talent !
Natio is 15 mins from me (Stanwell Tops side). Speed limit is now 60k's all through it (even it the straights), not as much fun now as in the past, This is the typical knee jerk reaction after a few gladiator dressed sports bike riders come unstuck. Cops in cars hiding in bushes on alot of weekends so during the week now is more relaxed.
Dad bought my brother & I brand new Honda XR75's from Gus Lou Motorcycles at Sutherland, must have been about 1977
It was Gus Liu Motorcycles . Was a sales manager there in around 1985. We had some fantastic results from that shop with multiple top 10 Castrol 6 hr results and the odd pole position . Rod Cox , Mal Campbell, Roger Heys , Robbie Phillis all rode one of our bikes at various stages. Kim Askanazi rode mx for us and Jason Bargwanna raced carts . Kim went on to race internationally then get locked away for drugs in England and Jason went on to drive for HDT in supercars. We also had the non stop around Australia record on a bike that will never be broken at 6 days 17 hours 6 minutes. Them was the days...LOL
Ah yes, can still picture Gus' smiling face. That was a terrific shop there that you were a part of.
Welcome Kingo , nice ride!
