Richard Jolley

Road racing,World Superbike & BSB follower - huge Newcastle United fan

[Mat Oxley @matoxley]

Very sad to hear Kiwi Ginger Molloy - #MotoGP runner-up to Agostini in 1970 - has died, aged 88. He was your typical gritty privateer of the time: 90% racing on street circuits, half starved, sleeping under his van, hard as nails, making a quid anyway he could, even doing a bit of race-fixing, just to survive.

Read and take note:

“If I earned some good money we’d have a meal in a restaurant. Otherwise we couldn’t afford that. Breakfast was a couple of cans of baked beans, heated up on the primus stove, and washed down with a cup of tea. Once we only had rolled oats, so we had porridge for breakfast and the leftover porridge was left to go cold, so Claire (Mrs Molloy) made it into porridge fritters for dinner.”

“Assen was something else. There were hot showers, the only riders’ camp in Europe to have them. And good toilets, something that always seemed to be forgotten in other places. And in the morning you were woken by the ring of the milkman’s bell – such luxury to have fresh milk and butter delivered to our doorstep each day, because we didn’t have a fridge.”

Photo: Molloy repositioning the load on his van - somewhere in Spain in 1965

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@mikecj Welcome back Mike

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@CORNALLYG Very poor Gems

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Recently discovered rare footage of Willie Nelson and Keith Richards helping build the pyramids in Egypt 😂

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Dr Feelgood: She Does It Right 😍

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@MotoGPJules Ray Amm bottom left ?

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Led Zep in Olde England 😎😍

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@CORNALLYG And Tino !!

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It's not just the rally drivers who are different 🤣

#WRC

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@NUFC Brilliant link man with Supermac

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@matoxley Mat is that the temperature or lean angle ?😂

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@mikecj Welcome back Mike

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@TheBishF1 @RacingPrideHQ Matt -that picture would make a great "caption that" competition

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Sad to hear of the death of Tommy Robb yesterday. Tommy was a five time North West 200 winner and our condolences go to his family and friends.

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@bikesportnews Jonny looked so much better on that bike

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Things you never thought you'd see: Mick Doohan's son having a chat with Robert Dunlop's son 😎😎
From @ttracesofficial

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MD tells it like it is

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Miserable fuckers in their stupid hats😫

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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Mat Oxley @matoxley]

Just fantastic 😍😍 Goose bumps