Not a good day…
06 Jun 2009
Waking up to rain dripping through the roof of my trailer and onto the outer of the two sleeping bags required to stave off hypothermia is not a brilliant way to begin any day. The rain was incessant and I was soaked through within the first lap of qualifying. The track was really slippery, so […]
Datatool Alarm Review
05 Jun 2009
I have a datatool alarm fitted to my bike, and have so far found a number of pro’s and con’s. Naively, I had hoped for merely pro’s when buying the bike. Pro’s: You can leave the bike anywhere without having to carry a lock of any sorts; There is no possibility of riding off like […]
Great practice, terrible forecast
Today’s practice day went great. The bike was in recalcitrant mood first thing, slapping its bars everywhere and ruining my confidence. A few set-up changes got it sorted though, and through the afternoon it was a pleasure to ride hard and the times tumbled. I’m now really happy with my dry pace. The thing is, […]
BBC Wiltshire radio interview
If you get a chance to listen to BBC Wiltshire tomorrow (Sat 6th) from around 2pm, you can hear an interview I did with sports journalist Ian Longdon last night. There’s also a cryptic clue game where listeners have to guess my sport from some, er, cryptic clues. There isn’t a giant cash prize though, […]
Technical troubles
03 Jun 2009
…with my not-so-smartphone rather than the bike, fortunately. The remote email has spluttered to a halt, so there’s a chance that I won’t be able to blog live from the track on Friday and Saturday if I can’t fix it tomorrow. My nan does worry if I don’t fire up a blog soon after a […]
BMF GEMS SHOW – 30th & 31st May 2009
02 Jun 2009
What a glorious weekend for standing in the Garden of England- sadly it would seem that the sunshine drew everyone away from the show and down to the coast as the foot traffic past our stand was not as hectic as I’d been expecting. Cheffy and I spent two days in the sunshine handing out prize […]
Oulton Park preview
01 Jun 2009
This season is flying along; round four is next weekend at Oulton Park. It’s a single day event, so there are just two races. While that doesn’t change the aim away from winning all the races, it does mean that there’s less opportunity to make up for a mistake. I need a clean weekend. Oulton […]
from A to B and back again
26 May 2009
I know the point of any journey is essentially to get you from A to B, but this weekend we took this quite literally, and rode from Aylesbury to Bognor. What was supposed to be an interesting journey there with less motorway/dual carriageway and more country roads would have been more accurately described as a […]
Daytona Update and Weatherwatch
21 May 2009
So I have just picked up my bike from its very first service, and she is now raring to go for the next 5400 miles – hooray!! 🙂 Fingers crossed for good weather this weekend then, as we are hoping to take the bikes down to the South Coast for the bank holiday. […]
My 749 Dark Sounds Like a Ducati at last!!
So I’ve started putting extra bits on my 749. First of all I managed to get hold of a carbon exhaust shield that looks much better than the ugly standard one. Then came the carbon seat cowl which looks awesome! Then the serious business of looking for exhausts began. Now I know that a lot […]
BMF Show, East of England Showground
18 May 2009
We attended the BMF East of England show in Peterborough and despite the rain (Sunday poured down!) people were in high spirits. We met a couple of our clients (Andy & Lee) and lots of other nice people. The pictures below are of the crowd assembled outside our show van watching bike racing.
Updates and WD replica graphics!
16 May 2009
I’ve been busy updating the photo gallery and bike profile sections of my website. Check them out. The gallery has a load of great new images by PLJphoto for the Cadwell and Pembrey rounds, showing how close some of the racing was. The Bike Profile has some new pics of the bike in detail, plus […]
The importance of being leather
14 May 2009
So, the other week I had a mare … I split a zip on my leathers. Not the flies, which would imply too many pies (and as Chef proved you can ride for years with a busted fly and no-one notices), but the calf zip! I blame training for cycling the London to Brighton next […]
Not Best Friends
13 May 2009
I was riding with two of my mates, along a favourite road, which we all know well. All of us are quite quick riders, and certainly all of us were riding in excess of the speed limit. I have no arguments about that.
Good news and consolation
11 May 2009
My last race report failed to point out that Pete Carr, who knocked himself out and spread his GSX-R’s bodywork across the track in the last race yesterday, is ok and not seriously hurt. Hopefully he’ll be tip top soon and racing again at Oulton. And the consolation is for my fuel mistake in race […]
A sensible win
10 May 2009
I’m not often accused of being mature and level-headed on a bike, but in today’s first race I was sensible enough to stay out of the desperate battle for third in the Supertwins class that was going on in front of me and calmly took the Streetfighter class win by seven seconds. I got a […]
And repeat
Race two was the same story as earlier pretty much, except this time I got an awesome start and led the whole race for the first lap before the first of the Supertwins got by. After four laps the same two headcases got in front of me on their Supertwins with block passes and proceeded […]
