Monday, September 11, 2006
Old school mate - Darran (Darren) Lindsay killed this weekend
BBC SPORT Motorsport Motorbikes Tributes paid to race ace Lindsay
You never think it will happen, but "Links" was killed during practice for a road race this weekend.
Darren was always a bit of a messer, but right from the first time Darren rode my Suzuki RM125 down at the farm (not sure if this was his first ever ride on a motorbike, but it was probably pretty close) and graduating onto riding "Hermie's" big 500cc single cylinder thumper it looked like Darren had what it took to be an excellent racer.
Even riding Tom-bert's (our woodwork teacher) moped round the gravel running track Darren was able get it to go faster than most.
At school "Linx" was Darrens nickname and if I remember correctly his name was spelt with an "en" rather than a "an".
I remember Darren 1st joining my P5 class (Miss Hill was our teacher's name) in the middle of term, after he had spent a lot of time in hospital; not sure what was wrong, you just don't ask that sort of thing when you are 8 and 9 years old.
Being a bit of daredevil Linx had more than a few gravel rash moments in his bicycling career, I guess it gets a bit more serious on a motorcycle.
Having moved away from Northern Ireland to go to University in England in 1990, I didn't see much of Linx motorcycling career except the odd programme of roadracing on the likes of men & motors and reading the odd article on the www.
So long my old mucker.
You never think it will happen, but "Links" was killed during practice for a road race this weekend.
Darren was always a bit of a messer, but right from the first time Darren rode my Suzuki RM125 down at the farm (not sure if this was his first ever ride on a motorbike, but it was probably pretty close) and graduating onto riding "Hermie's" big 500cc single cylinder thumper it looked like Darren had what it took to be an excellent racer.
Even riding Tom-bert's (our woodwork teacher) moped round the gravel running track Darren was able get it to go faster than most.
At school "Linx" was Darrens nickname and if I remember correctly his name was spelt with an "en" rather than a "an".
I remember Darren 1st joining my P5 class (Miss Hill was our teacher's name) in the middle of term, after he had spent a lot of time in hospital; not sure what was wrong, you just don't ask that sort of thing when you are 8 and 9 years old.
Being a bit of daredevil Linx had more than a few gravel rash moments in his bicycling career, I guess it gets a bit more serious on a motorcycle.
Having moved away from Northern Ireland to go to University in England in 1990, I didn't see much of Linx motorcycling career except the odd programme of roadracing on the likes of men & motors and reading the odd article on the www.
So long my old mucker.
