A bit of New Years Eve Trivia until I sort out some interesting 2009 blogs...

Happy New Year to you all.......just a quickly assembled bit of NYE trivia to tide us over into 2009.
Back to another pen and ink drawing session...I'm always in awe at the neatness and accuracy of those MotorCycle/MotorCycling artists and cartoonists, so check out some more below.
The final photo for the year is a banjo jam session north of Sydney...
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First drawing, above, is Freddie Frith's 1948 IOM Junior TT winning 350 KTT Velocette engine.










Second drawing is a bit of technical advice on primary chain adjustment.




















Third drawing is the cockpit view of a Velocette Venom Clubman Veeline. Photo credit for the above three to Morton's Motorcycle Media who own the copyright to "MotorCycle" and "Motorcycling".













Fourth is a Grimes cartoon of a scene in a prewar IOM TT race. Photo credit to the Grimes Family estate.












Fifth drawing is a rear brake assembly from a prewar MOV and MAC Velocette.Photo credit to the late R.W.Burgess one time Velocette Service Manager and to C.Arthur Pearson Ltd.,London, publishers.

















The final photograph as mentioned above is, right, Ted Gerome from Ligonier, Pennsylvania, USA ( visiting Sydney to escape the US winter) playing tenor banjo lead in a song during a banjo jam in John Wilson's house, Warners Bay north of Sydney in February 2008. John, centre, is playing chord rhythm harmony on his 1928 Vega Artist tenor banjo and I'm also playing backup chord harmony on my 1960 Vegavox plectrum banjo.Photo credit DQ.
A great way to while away the day....
Good banjoists that we are...
Check out two friends of mine on a YouTube video clip....
Cut and past this into your browser....

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrpwuiLhcE