“I had a few good years when I was really on a roll with John Player – you keep winning and winning, you can do nothing wrong. You used to come back from races with your toes bleeding. “That was the John Player Norton days – smoking and taping up me boots. You could do that in them days, it was real good fun!” “You’d have a couple of pints of Guinness and go out. ![]() Such were the stresses of racing that Crockers sometimes prepared himself for action with a swift one or two in the paddock bar. ![]() “I crashed at Brands while battling with Bazza (Sheene)… I was sliding along on my arse waving at him, and he was waving back.” Or his only TT crash, “This bloody great big pig comes out and it’s running alongside me…”. Many of Croxford’s tumbles were comedy events, in retrospect, at least.
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