This off-season we’re running a series showing your motorcycles. Not just your road racing bikes, but your streetbikes, motocross bikes, dirt bikes, pit bikes, mini bikes, trials bikes, land-speed bikes, drag bikes, speedway bikes, whatever you’ve got. If you have more than one bike, send photos of them all–alone or with you! Send in-focus bike photos (as jpeg files) along with the make, model and year of each bike and your name, city and state, plus the name of the photographer, to [email protected]. By sending us the photos, you are certifying that you own the rights to the photos and are giving us permission to feature them on roadracingworld.com. They may be posted on roadracingworld.com during slow news days.
Seen here in our seventh installment are photos sent in by WERA racer Roy Holmes, age 52, of Raymond, Mississippi.
The first photo shows Holmes (826) on his 2011 Suzuki GSX-R1000 racebike in Turn Seven at Road Atlanta during the 2014 WERA Cycle Jam.
His other bikes include a 2011 Suzuki GSX-R750 streetbike, seen at an overlook in Deals Gap, Tennessee on a cold April day; his 2012 Yamaha Super Tenere streetbike seen at Valley of the Gods in Utah; and his 2014 Honda Grom seen with Holmes in his shop.
In the Grom photo, Holmes is recovering from surgery to remove hardware from his wrist, installed after a crash.
Looking through posts on Roadracingworld.com, I found one from a WERA event at Barber Motorsports Park in September 2003, with the results listing Holmes as finishing sixth in the 600cc Superbike Novice race on a Suzuki GSX-R600. It can be seen here:
https://www.roadracingworld.com/news/updated-post-b…
A more recent post from a WERA race held at NOLA in April 2014 lists Holmes as winning the Open/A Superstock Expert race on his Suzuki GSX-R1000. It can be seen here:
https://www.roadracingworld.com/news/more-from-the…
When I e-mailed Holmes and asked about the spread between the two posts, he replied, “I went dormant for way too many years and woke up old. Decided what the hell and went back racing in 2013. Truth is, I should have never quit way back in 2004. Went Expert back then and things didn’t work out like I thought they should have. I just didn’t give it enough time.”
Check Out Holmes’ rider profile on roadracingworld.com here:
https://www.roadracingworld.com/members/royholmes/
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