{"id":4321,"date":"2025-03-10T21:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2025-03-10T22:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T22:03:02","slug":"john-bottomley-gp-ducati-talk-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=4321","title":{"rendered":"John Bottomley &#8211; GP Ducati Talk Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JB-Audience-strip-700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JB-Audience-strip-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JB-Audience-strip-700-300x93.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Branch members listening to John&#8217;s talk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a packed room full of members eager to hear John Bottomley talk about the development of Ducati GP racing engines. John is a former engineer and has ridden motorcycles off-road and on the track all his adult life. He also started the motorcycle team at Brooklands Museum.  It was an interesting evening and everybody enjoyed it and learned a lot. We hope to have John back to share more of his knowledge of motorcycles in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" data-id=\"4327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JB-Audience-700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JB-Audience-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JB-Audience-700-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The audience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JB-talking-close-700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"526\" data-id=\"4325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JB-talking-close-700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JB-talking-close-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JB-talking-close-700-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John presenting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as owning a Ducati race, John also owns a 1972 Yamaha TR3 replica.  Here is a video of him talking about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Bottomley and his 1972 Yamaha TR3 replica\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JlosYagAtUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a packed room full of members eager to hear John Bottomley talk about the development of Ducati GP racing engines. John is a former engineer and has ridden motorcycles off-road and on the track all his adult life. He also started the motorcycle team at Brooklands Museum. It was an interesting evening and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=4321\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Bottomley &#8211; GP Ducati Talk Photos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-pictures","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4329,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions\/4329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}