[Timofi]

Project underway

 

[TrialsRider]

Sweet! You should fix it up and race it.

 

[Timofi]

Sweet! You should fix it up and race it.

Cheers! That's the plan... My dad is already pushing me to enter the UK classic series once its done. Tricky though, everything is custom!!

 

[TrialsRider]

She's not old enough to put in a museum yet you need to race it some and make it famous,
then retire it to a museum with your name and number on it.

Tricky would be a good name for it.

 

[jalsteve]

Is that one of Robin’s bikes?

 

[Timofi]

It is indeed one of RR's, yes

 

[jalsteve]

Thought that was in Alfs show room in Hainault, that said I haven’t been there for a few years. Or is it somewhere around the Marlow area. Not sure what class you could race it in competively though.

 

[Timofi]

I wouldn't know either to be honest! You are correct, the one in the showroom is the sister bike to this one... RR only made 2 of this variant I have been told by Hagon. The other was in the US and returned back here after they stopped operating over there...

 

[jalsteve]

Well good luck with it. Both Fred and Robin were very good riders.

Take a look at the thread about the Broad monocoque which turned up in 72 - slightly different concept but equally interesting.

I played around with big XL 500 engines in various chassis, the best combinaction i managed to concoct was in a tigcraft.

 

[jalsteve]

BTW your not going to drum up a huge amount of interest in race bikes on this site.

Seems to be the way it is.

 

[woodsman]

BTW your not going to drum up a huge amount of interest in race bikes on this site.

Seems to be the way it is.

I think it is more likely a lack of knowledge than lack of interest, most of the British vintage race bikes never made it to this side of the pond or were extremely rare. This Hagon is a perfect example, I didn't know he had built road racers.

 

[jalsteve]

There were quite a few small outfits building special stuff like this in the UK in the days before “production” based racing took over. F1 to Superbike is a good example, the last year of F1 1987 saw a Bimota win World F1 and in the same year Spondon, Harris and P&M raced in the same class but by 88 they’d all gone and production based Jap bikes took over. I believe this change happened a few years earlier in the US and Canada, the rest as they say is history.

Hagon also built a few monocoque motocross bikes. One still exists and is with a friend of mine.

 

[Terrell Hunt]

I've never seen something look so clean and badass at the same time, 'till I saw this. Awesome bike you got there.

 

[AlanSmith7]

Pleased to see the bike, it is looking awesome and clean even the model is 1985.