Dave Thorpe | 35 Years on from his first Weston Beach Race

[@Gary-ef6qo]

Remember this. Awesome Dave 👍👍👍👍👍

[@mattkingaby]

I've got that race on VHS somewhere, got it from an ad in DBR.

[@paulpaul5606]

Health and safety gone mental. I love it a bulldozer in the middle of the start straight with people going round with there head down 80 mile an hour plus

[@davidcoulson4717]

35 years… how time flies… I was there that day and remember it like yesterday…. Stuart Edmonds came 2nd i think on a 125 he was 16 years old..
i might be wrong, someone Will put me right no doubt!!

[@mike8544]

It was Paul Edmondson

[@MrCyphermonkey]

@00:46 Wtf was that digger doing in the middle of the start straight 😳

[@robertbullock4697]

Yeah your right..another thing to run into 😢

[@captainkayaking]

The start lights back then

[@mike8544]

No lights, it was a flare shot from the digger@@captainkayaking

[@chubbychubs4636]

Digging

[@Fifty-one-Fifty]

Dave rode 500's before power valves and they were tuned to the last aswell. Only a handful of riders could manage them

[@ashclaire5756]

I was gutted i can't ride this year but definitely next year

[@marcjohnson7734]

I was there,great days was he on a cr 500?

[@happy_Mx]

Will u guys be live streaming the race on here, and if not can we have the link to watch

[@ozbrick498]

Takes a fit man to ride a cr500 for three hours in a beach race