
Colin Jordan Seeley (2 January 1936 – 7 January 2020) was a British motorcycle retailer who later became a motorcycle
sidecar
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racer, motorcycle designer, constructor and retailer of accessories.
In 1992 he was involved in running the Norton Rotary race team.
Early days
Seeley was born in
Crayford
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,
Kent
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. He left school at fourteen and started riding on his handyman-father Percy's
Vincent Rapide when he obtained his licence at sixteen, beginning his working motorcycle career as an apprentice for ''Harcourt Motorcycles'', becoming acquainted with
Bernie Ecclestone
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at his nearby used motorcycle salesroom, followed by
Halfords
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Halfords Group is listed on the London Stock E ...
motorists' shop, both in
Bexleyheath
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, Kent, and then as a mechanic for a
driving school where Seeley also learned to drive a car. Another move was to the ''Schwieso Brothers'' bike business in
Dartford
Dartford is the principal town in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England. It is located south-east of Central London and
is situated adjacent to the London Borough of Bexley to its west. To its north, across the Thames Estuary, is Thurrock in ...
, Kent where he gained experience working with many different marques, also repairing and maintaining bikes in his spare time working in a wooden shed at his parents' home, using his bedroom to store parts.
[Coiln Seeley Racer and the rest Volume 1 at Google Books](_blank)
Retrieved 2014-09-30
In 1954, after being rejected for
National Service
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as unfit, Seeley had aspirations to own his own motorcycle business, securing rented premises in the ''Old Forge'', a car garage at Stapley Road in
Belvedere,
Kent
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. Whilst his father Percy had progressed from Series A Rapide through
Series C Shadow to a
Black Lightning
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, Colin was using a Matchless V-twin sidevalve with a large box sidecar to transport motorcycles sign-written with advertising for his business.
In 1956 Seeley established his first retail shop in nearby Nuxley Road, where, with his father Percy, they traded as C.J.Seeley (Sales) Ltd., Motorcycle Specialist, keeping the Old Forge site for service and repairs.
As agencies were difficult to obtain, Seeley started with sub-agencies (under the main-dealer umbrella) from
Zündapp,
NSU and
Moto Rumi
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, also selling bicycles, clothing and accessories, later being appointed as main agents for
AJS,
Ariel
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,
BMW
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,
Francis-Barnett,
Greeves and
Matchless
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. Further expansion in 1958 saw a nearby new showroom, again in Nuxley Road, dedicated to selling and fitting sidecars.
Racing background
When Seeley was fourteen he would cycle to the nearest local race track,
Brands Hatch
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, which had then converted from
grass track to hard surface, where he was impressed by
Vincent Motorcycles
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employee Ted Davis racing his Vincent sidecar outfit.
Seeley entered his first race in 1954 at Brands Hatch, a one-hour endurance event, riding a solo
500 cc BSA Star Twin borrowed from a friend, where he completed 42 laps during the hour. Pressure of work prevented any further competition until 1957 when Seeley entered his first scramble on a part-exchanged Triumph twin, followed by grass track,
hill climb and
Ramsgate
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sprint using the same machine.
By 1958 Seeley had acquired an AJS agency and purchased an ex-works 500 cc scrambler which he was uneasy with; also holding a Greeves agency, Seeley approached the factory for support and rode scramblers for them in 1958 and 1959.
In 1960, Seeley with his friend – mechanic and employee Wally Rawlings – bought their first sidecar outfit, and ex-Eric Oliver machine based on a
Manx Norton
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, entering their first race at
Snetterton
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in April 1960. With only one other entry accepted during 1960 – at
Charterhall in Scotland, 400 miles from his base in Kent – Seeley was disillusioned with the race-regulating bodies.
In late 1960, as a rider-agent, Seeley managed to convince the
AMC
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factory to sell him a new
Matchless G50 solo race bike to be modified and used with a Canterbury racing sidecar, for which Seeley was an agent. After some encouraging results on local tracks, Seeley entered his first Grand Prix event, the Isle of Man TT in 1961, finishing in sixth place.
Seeley raced in the British and world championship sidecar competitions between 1961 and 1967.
He raced his own-design machines with
Matchless G50 500cc engines and for the UK large-capacity class
Matchless 650cc G12 CSR followed by
Norton 650cc Dominator engines prepared by
Paul Dunstall, but for
Grands Prix the size limit was 500cc, meaning the only reliable, competitive engine was the BMW RS54 Rennsport.
Abandoning the tall-engine configuration of the single-cylinder Matchless G50 outfit, Seeley campaigned the flat-twin BMW installed in a lower-line outfit called ''FCS-BMW''(
Fath-Camathias Special). His best competitive results were first place at the
1964 Dutch TT and second-place finishes in the sidecar competitions at the
1964 Isle of Man TT and the
1966 French Grand Prix at
Clermont-Ferrand
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. Seeley was one of the first to wear coloured
racing leathers, using red suits together with passenger Roy Lindsay during the 1967 season, a trend started in 1966 by
Derek Minter.
Seeley motorcycles
Development
After retiring from competition, Seeley concentrated his efforts on designing and constructing Seeley-framed racing motorcycles, initially powered by AJS and Matchless motorcycle engines.
After experimentation during the winter months, the first prototype frame - powered by a
Matchless G50 single-cylinder 500 cc engine - was built from Reynolds '531' tubing in early 1966, and was 9 lbs lighter than a standard G50 frame.
[ ''Motor Cycle'', 17 February 1966, p.220 ''Seeley Specials''. Accessed 2013-06-14]
The prototype had
Manx Norton
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front forks with an eight-inch dual-sided brake by engineer ''Edwin 'Eddie' Robinson'', which Seeley later retailed separately and Manx Norton rear forks (swinging arm, swingarm) with Manx conical rear hub.
Production frames would have a swinging arm made by Seeley, and customers could specify four, five or six-speed gearboxes.
Derek Minter tested the bike at a race circuit local to both himself and Colin Seeley –
Brands Hatch
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– describing it as "the best steering solo he'd ever tried" and the front brake as better than the Oldani normally used on his Manx Nortons.
When the
AMC
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motorcycle firm closed their in-house race shops in 1963 due to financial problems, although spares were still available, the actual engines were then obsolete.
There were no manufacturers producing new 350 cc and 500 cc race machines for purchase, excepting a 350 cc
Aermacchi
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, prompting fears over sustainability of the existing AMC race engines and leading some tuners to turn to developing road engines, such as
Triumph Tiger 100
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used in the lightweight composite-framed 'Monard' by
Geoff Monty and Allen Dudley-Ward, Allen Dudley-Ward's own 'DWS 500' (a Triumph Norton) and Brian Bennett's twin-carb all-Triumph). Although these were not expected to be fully competitive against the
OHC
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AMC race engines, they were a cheaper clubman's starter option.
Seeley in late 1966 purchased all the engine tooling and spares for their racing
AJS,
Matchless
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and
Norton motorcycle brands. The availability of
AJS 7R
The AJS 7R was a British 350 cc racing motorcycle built from 1948 to 1963 by Associated Motor Cycles.
It was also commonly known as the ‘Boy Racer’, and won victories both for the factory and for privateers right from its introduction i ...
and Matchless G50 engines was ensured, and Seeley did not have to consider manufacturing the AJS and Matchless cycle parts. The
Manx Norton
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spares aspect
[ was sold-on to former sidecar racer John Tickle in 1969, changing hands twice again by 1994.
]
Production
Production began in July 1966, with the first available G50 500 cc bike being purchased by Swiss racer Ernst Weiss.[ ''Motor Cycle'' 21 July 1966, p.86 ''Racing Line'' by ''David Dixon'' Accessed and added 2014-12-23] David Dixon track-tested the 350cc AJS 7R-engined version for Motor Cycle albeit hampered by the chassis being fitted for smaller Derek Minter and running-in a new engine, he reported the bike – with a six-speed Schafleitner gearbox – to be the smoothest 7R he'd ridden.[ ''Motor Cycle'', 1 September 1966, p.274 ''Lower and Lighter'' by David Dixon. Accessed 2013-06-14] Dixon also reported that there was two gearbox options - four-speed or six-speed at extra cost.
''Motor Cycle'' staff writer David Dixon reported in November 1966 that Seeley was "''hoping to step-up the output of his Seeley 349 cc AJSs and 549 cc Matchlesses for 1967. These will, as in the past, be sold as complete machines ready to race.''" Seeley was also appointed as a Reynolds 531 frame tubing stockist.[ ''Motor Cycle'', 24 November 1966, p.711 'Clubmen's Grand Prix' by David Dixon "''..he also hopes—eventually—to have enough Norton material to make complete Norton engines to fit into ]Featherbed frame
The featherbed frame was a motorcycle frame invented by the McCandless brothers and offered to the Great Britain, British Norton motorcycle company to improve the performance of their racing motorcycles in 1950. It was considered revolutionary ...
s made by Reynolds Tubes.''" and p.689 'Showscan' "''Seeley has been appointed as an official stockist for Reynolds famous 531 frame tubing''"
Seeley soon was devising frames for other engines. The 1967 URS 500 cc four cylinder intended for Grands Prix racing was initially ridden by John Blanchard, but the Seeley-frame aspect of the project (provided by Colin Seeley Race Developments) ran into problems with personalities and by the sudden use of a non-Seeley front-brake from rival Rickman Brothers, resulting in Colin Seeley confiscating his rolling chassis less the brake, caused the Fath (URS
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) team to use a Rickman Metisse frame from 1968 onwards, a successful Grands Prix machine campaigned by German Karl Hoppe. Colin Seeley later sold the frame privately, which Blanchard eventually bought, and using a spare Fath/URS engine was able to create a complete machine.
In 1968 Seeley developed road-race frames for the 250 cc ''QUB'' two-stroke twin-cylinder, followed by the 500 cc ''QUB'' two-stroke single-cylinder engines, both conceived by Dr. Gordon Blair at Queen's University Belfast
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.
Other engines were Yamaha, creating the Yamsel so effectively raced by John Cooper and later Norton twins. Seeley went on to develop in 1971 a roadster based on the Matchless G50 engine called the Seeley Condor.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s when almost all the major motorcycle manufacturers had pulled out of Grand Prix racing, the Seeley-designed chassis became the race bike of choice for privateer
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racers of the era. John Cooper won the 500cc class at the 1968 North West 200
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, while Brian Ball finished second to Giacomo Agostini
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in the Senior TT
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at the 1968 Isle of Man TT, both riders on a Seeley-Matchless. At the 1969 North West 200, John Blanchard and Brian Steenson
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placed first and second in the 500 class aboard Seeley-designed motorcycles. In the 1969 Isle of Man TT, Seeley placed four of his machines in the top ten in the Senior TT
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race with third, fourth, sixth and seventh-place finishes. His best result as a constructor came in 1970
Events
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when Tommy Robb rode one of his machines to a fourth-place finish in the 500cc world championship. Seeley later used other Japanese engines in his chassis, most notably using a Hi-Tac Suzuki T500 engine for Barry Sheene
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in 1971. Sheene used the bike to win the British national championship and declared it the best-handling motorcycle he had ever ridden.
His designs proved so successful in competition that he earned a reputation as one of the best motorcycle frame
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designers in the industry. In the 1970s, Seeley moved to automobile racing when Bernie Ecclestone
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hired him as joint managing director of Motor Racing Developments to work on Brabham racing car production, and in 1986
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with the Brabham
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Formula One
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team.
Road bikes and others
Following on from the Condor roadster, during the mid-1970s Seeley - under the name ''Colin Seeley International'' - produced a special, lightweight, single-seat sporting road bike with Honda CB750
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750 cc SOHC
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engine and front forks, featuring his own fuel tank, seat and exhausts.
"Colin Seeley; Racer and the Rest Volume Two" Google Books. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
Additionally, the frame and Swingarm, swinging-arm was available separately as a kit for self-builders having the Honda 750 engine and ancillaries. Seeley was the UK-importer for American-made Lester
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aluminium motorcycle wheels.
In 1977 Seeley produced for Honda a limited-production of 150 'Phil Read Replica' TT Formula 1 race-styled roadsters based on the CB750F2 with accessories by Seeley in Honda Britain colours of blue and red, followed by a 1979 updated version called CB750SS in white with red or blue flashes.
Again in 1979 he produced a Seeley Honda TL200 trials bike, a smaller version of the 360cc works bike ridden by Rob Shepherd, based on the XL185 engine with a Reynolds 531 tubing frame, Marzocchi forks and Girling rear shock absorbers. All machines were hand-built, by David Carter in Seeley's workshop in Maxim Road Erith and, with limited production volumes, have become collectors' items.
Other product lines were developed. Seeley fairings were instantly recognisable by the styling and twin headlights, as were megaphone-shape replacement silencers with long reverse-cones which he dubbed ''Easy-Fit''.
As vintage racing increased in popularity, Seeley's motorcycles experienced a resurgence with a victory at the 1988 Manx Grand Prix
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. Since then, Seeley machines have won twelve times in vintage class racing at the Manx Grand Prix.
Charity work
In 1976, Seeley's first wife Joan was diagnosed with cancer which ultimately proved to be terminal; in her memory, Seeley established a small charity named ''The Joan Seeley Pain Relief Memorial Trust''.[The Joan Seeley Pain Relief Memorial Trust homepage](_blank)
Retrieved 2014-09-30 Originally administered by a small team of trustees who died or retired, Seeley and his second wife Eva later ran the charity, from which they took no expenses, with all the monies raised being invested into equipment for hospital facilities.['']Motor Cycle News
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'' 4 February 1981 p.2 ''£25,000 in Seeley Fund. "More than £25,000 has been raised in the first year of the Joan Seeley Pain Relief Memorial Trust. The charity have given a £2,500 nerve freezer to the Walton Foundation in Liverpool and are now raising money for Nobles Hospital on the Isle of Man''". Accessed and added 2014-10-03 Past patrons include Murray Walker
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and Mike Hailwood
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, who was succeeded after his death in 1981 by his widow Pauline.The Joan Seeley Pain Relief Memorial Trust About Us
Retrieved 2014-09-30['']Motor Cycle News
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'' 5 May 1982 p.9 ''£4,500 Tribute to Hailwood. "Special pain relief equipment has been presented to Birmingham Accident Hospital in memory of Mike Hailwood. Pauline Hailwood, Mike's widow, presented the £4,500 machine bought out more than £40,000 raised by the Joan Seeley Pain Relief Memorial Trust. Mrs Hailwood is now the honorary patron of the Trust''". Accessed and added 2014-10-06
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