Dave started racing motorcycles in 1987 and hasn’t really stopped. A self-employed motorcycle engineer, specialising in race bikes and Italian machines, Dave has won four New Zealand Road Race Championships. Three of those championships were aboard Yamaha machines and Dave competed in four Australian Historic road racing championships riding a 1959 Matchless G50 for Ross Graham

Dave Cole - 1991 Yamaha TZ250B

Dave started racing motorcycles in 1987 and hasn’t really stopped. A self-employed motorcycle engineer, specialising in race bikes and Italian machines, Dave has won four New Zealand Road Race Championships. Three of those championships were aboard Yamaha machines and Dave competed in four Australian Historic road racing championships riding a 1959 Matchless G50 for Ross Graham

1991 Yamaha TZ250B:

This 1991 Yamaha TZ250B is a production Grand Prix racer. It has a two-cylinder, two-stroke engine producing about 80hp. Its approximate weight is 100kg. This bike competed in the 1993 Malaysian 250 Grand Prix ridden by the late Kit Veng Tong. Dave, with help from Bob Haldane, purchased and imported the bike to race in the NZ Formula 2 Championship in 1993 and 1994 and won the title in 1994.