Sounds like my trips to the Bathurst Easter TT's, anyone remember them? Oh, and I saw Cold Chisel live at Bathurst at the TT in 1985, with the Choir Boys as the warmup act, then afterwards the riot at the police compound, geez, what a great night!
Yep sure do.
The lovely Evelyn got set alight in '85.
Wacked in the head by a flaming toilet roll soaked in kero.
She went up like a roman candle.
By the time we put her out they had pissed off.
But we did spot a couple of clowns walking around with toilet rolls half an hour later, so we belted the fcuk out of them just to make Ev feel a bit better about losing some of her hair.
They ran through somebody's camp trying to get away and got another toweling.
Ask Ev about it next time you see her Tez, she still gets a giggle out of it.
Cheers,
Brian
Ha ha, well it wasn't me or my mate Pete Brian, we'd walked out of the concert at the Skyline Ampi-theatre around the back of the police compound just as the riot squad came out the rear of the building with their shields and wacking sticks, so Pete and I took a wide berth and wandered back to our bikes and tents, and watched the riot from a safe distance.
I was there in 1983 (on my K1) 1985 (XT500) and 1987. (Harley Sportster) '83 and '85 had riots, ('83 when the VW Beetle was "end for ended" up to the police compound and set on fire, and '85 when the Channel 7 film crew parked the Falcon wagon in the middle of the donut ring and challenged the "boys" to create a news headline for them) but '87 was dead, and the last TT at Bathurst sadly.
Riots aside, there has never been a motorcycle event as enjoyable as the Bathurst TT which is a shame, it was one hell of a weekend!
Fidi, Oz isn't America, we don't need guns to solve every problem, they're available (I own a couple) but Brian's solution is a lot smarter. Cheers, Terry.