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Mick Grant (born 10 July 1944) is an English former professional motorcycle road racer and TT rider. A works-supported rider for Norton, Kawasaki, Honda and Suzuki, he is a seven-time winner of the Isle of Man TT motorcycle race on various makes, including ' Slippery Sam ', a three-cylinder Triumph Trident. [1]
- How and Did You First Get Into Bikes?
- What Your First bike?
- Do You Recall Your First Crash?
- Did You Have Many Road Bikes Before You Started Racing?
- Your Greatest Racing Achievement?
- Did You Still Ride Bikes on The Road During Your Racing Career?
- What Bikes Do You Have Now?
- So You Don’T Have Any Bikes Now?
- What’s The One That Got away?
It was round about the time of the Suez Crisis (1956) so there was petrol rationing. A pal of mine’s father was an engineer and needed some petrol coupons so he bought a Triumph Tiger 80 – which was a 350cc, pre-war single – because it came with some petrol coupons! We rode that thing round and round the fields for hours. I was about nine or 10 at ...
I rode my dad’s BSA Bantam for a while but the first bike I actually owned was a 250 AJS Sapphire. It looked gorgeous but it used to break a crankshaft every 6000 miles. I wanted to buy a 500 Velocette but my dad wouldn’t let me.
My first crash was on that Tiger 80. I was on a little back road and Mr Lumb was coming straight towards me in his ice cream van. I panicked and fell off into the hedge. Mr Lumb just kept on driving so I didn’t even get an ice cream out of it.
I eventually got a 500 Velocette and that’s what I started racing on. I really wanted to compete in trials or scrambling but I didn’t have the bike and I didn’t have the money so I turned the Velocette into a race bike. I was terrible at it though – didn’t win a sausage for three years. I was doing all my own tuning but didn’t know what I was doing...
Being able to stop racing without regretting it. Some people stop because money runs out or they get injured or they just went at it too long. You can’t be too greedy. So many people go great for a while but then they go on too long and f** it up!
I’ve always had a road bike but never been too fanatical about it. When I was riding for Kawasaki and Honda I could pick whatever road bikes I wanted. I had a Kawasaki Z1 but like an idiot I opted for a Honda CX500 in 1979. You don’t need the fastest bike when it’s not racing but that bike was bad.
Until recently I had a very nice collection of vintage motorbikes, mainly 500cc singles. I like mechanical things, but I sold them all because it got to a point where it was like painting the Forth Bridge – they just needed permanent work and I wasn’t prepared to dedicate my whole life to keeping them running. On any sunday Ariel 500 HT trials ‘My ...
I’ve still got two of my factory racing bikes – the 1977/78 Kawasaki KR750 that I won the TT and set a new outright lap record on, and my 1982 Suzuki XR69. My passion is trials riding and I ride every weekend on my classic trials bikes. I enjoy working on them as much as riding them. I developed a 500 Ariel for 30 years and couldn’t do any more wit...
It’s every rider from my era’s dream to own a Honda-6, but that’s not going to happen! I rode a proper Honda-4 though – it was amazing.
Mar 17, 2016 · Published: 17 March 2016 Updated: 17 March 2016. . . 1 of 8. Mick Grant has cherished his KR750 since he raced it in the 1970s. e live in an age of hyperbole, when even a slightly...
Nov 5, 2023 · 1.7K views 10 days ago 2023 Video Podcasts. 5 x British Championships, 5 x NW200 Wins, 7 x TT winner, Yorkshire legend Mick Grant joins us for the first of three hour-long shows looking back at...
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93. 1.3K views 3 weeks ago 2023 Video Podcasts. The final installment of our chat with the brilliant Mick Grant. In this episode we cover team management and the pitfalls and tragedy that...
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In this episode of the TT Podcast, Chris Pritchard and Steve Plater are joined by a legend of the Isle of Man TT, Mick Grant. Part one of the conversation se...
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Oct 5, 2010 · Mick had a racing career spanning almost 20 years. He won three Grand Prix and seven Isle of Man TT races. He smashed Mike Hailwood’s enduring lap record on the island. Mick rode for top race teams including Norton, Kawasaki, Honda and Suzuki. His opponents included Mike Hailwood, Barry Sheene and Giacomo Agostini.
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