Images Dated 2nd July 2011

Geoff Dukes first TT victory

Geoff Duke was employed by Norton as a trials rider, but it was his prowess on tarmac that made Geoff a motorcycling legend. Seen here after winning the 1949 Senior Clubman TT. Later that year he won the Senior Manx Grand Prix before becoming a full Norton works rider

1949 Senior Clubman, Geoff Duke, Norton

Moto Guzzi V-8 action on Bray Hill

Moto Guzzi made their name with single cylinder racers. In 1957 they bought out this fantastic V-8 racer. It progress in the 1957 Senior TT was hampered by a piston seizure, but Dickie Dale rode this innovative machine into 4th place on the Senior. It was never raced again in the Island, Guzzi, together with MV and Mondial, pulled out of racing at the end of the season

Columnar basalt formations with clouds at sunset, Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, USA

Devils Tower National Monument, seen above the Belle Fourche River, is a one-of-a-kind natural wonder. Devils Tower is an laccolithic butte composed of igneous rock. Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established in 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt

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