Monotracer Moment @ Bedford Autodrome (2009)

This is the last of a series of photos I took with my Canon EOS on motordrive as Ivan Diamond spectacularly high-sided his Monotracer at Bedford Autodrome in 2009, with John Barker of EVO magazine in the back. Ivan was just a little bit too 'gung-ho' in his attempt to show what his Monotracer could do, and had the suspension set too soft for such tracktime scratching. Evo had a video running inside the machine, and put it up on their website. A few seconds from that video has been grabbed by RyanF9 in his FortNine video 'Feet Forward Motorcycles are Technically Better', in Apri 2022, as mentioned in my blog post elsewhere on bikeweb. Neither Ivan nor John were hurt in the prang and Ivan coped manfully with the loss of one of his outrigger tyres, and did some more demo rides on the Bedford track and then drove himself home.
As can be seen from some of the other photos in this folder, Ivan and I took it in turns to drive this machine from Istanbul to Zurich three years later. PNB

Monotracer Moment @ Bedford Autodrome (2009)