The Late Bill Rowell (and a trailer)

[Colin]

Bill was a motorcycle cop and lived just off the dual carriage way near Devises. He was a member of the Wylye Valley Sect as was I. One Sunday morning I was very late for the trial I had entered near Devises. and was hammering along the dual carriage way in my VW Scirocco towing a trailer with my trials Majesty. The whole lot bouncing around at ?!???!! mph.. Just nearing a roundabout I spied a police bike parked on the verge, and a motorcycle cop moving towards the road with his hand up. Under very hard braking I just managed to note a big smile spread across the cop's face as he turned, away and I, VW, and trailer somehow slid sideways across the roundabout
Give you 3 guesses who it was. If you ask me sometime, somewhere else, I'll tell you a couple more stories about Bill. We are losing all the good'uns. RIP my old mate

 

[vibrac]

Back in the seventies on the Lands End trial with Ron Kemp (Egli and me on a Tri...) we came into either Devises or Frome in the small hours with Dave Minskip of the met police team ahead (Dave could ride a police saint through all the sections clear) and at the outskirts we were picked up by a police rider with the blues on and we went through that sleepy west town like a dose of salts! sounds like that could have been Bill.

 

[Colin]

Hi Tim
Could well have been Bill, he had a knack of doing the right thing at the right moment, even if it was not strictly Police proceedure

 

[Colin]

Tim
Also reminds me of the ride through The Hague at the Dutch/German International to the Police Training School.
One poor old resident was trying to b ack his car out of his driveway as a along column of Vins appeared down his road escorted by Dutch Police, One officer solved that problem by parking across the old boy's drive and noncholantly drawing his side arm and smiling at him!!

 

[nobby]

Tim
Also reminds me of the ride through The Hague at the Dutch/German International to the Police Training School.
One poor old resident was trying to b ack his car out of his driveway as a along column of Vins appeared down his road escorted by Dutch Police, One officer solved that problem by parking across the old boy's drive and noncholantly drawing his side arm and smiling at him!!

Can still hear Frank Griffin almost pissing his pants while telling this story

 

[Colin]

Can still hear Frank Griffin almost pissing his pants while telling this story

I was tucked up in Phil Primmer's sidecar with my left leg in plaster following a cruciate ligament repair, which had rapidly followed a Trial accident!.
I didn't dare do any pissing as I could'nt get out of Phil's sidecar in anything under 10 minutes

 

[nobby]

I was tucked up in Phil Primmer's sidecar with my left leg in plaster following a cruciate ligament repair, which had rapidly followed a Trial accident!.
I didn't dare do any pissing as I could'nt get out of Phil's sidecar in anything under 10 minutes

and now I hear Phil using "strong" words!

 

[Colin]

and now I hear Phil using "strong" words!

TOO RIGHT!!! (Picture is on a BMW R100S when sidecar was sold on to a mutual mate after Phil's death)
Pic 2 was a sticker on the chair, Very appropriate!!!

 

[nobby]

TOO RIGHT!!! (Picture is on a BMW R100S when sidecar was sold on to a mutual mate after Phil's death)
Pic 2 was a sticker on the chair, Very appropriate!!!

I will copy the sticker and put it on my own sidecar...

 

[Colin]

Definitely copy it Nobby. If you happen to make another copy, may I have one please.
Very much an ET43 sort of sticker!!