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 […]
Qualifying
09 May 2009
The weather did its best to trip me up for the single 20-minute qualifying session, but teamwork prevailed. I’m on the front row of the mixed grid, in third, and first of the Streetfighters by a healthy margin. Several showers through the morning forced a late decision for wet tyres, but by the time they […]
Fuel crisis
I can barely bring myself to write this – I ran out of fuel halfway round the last lap, 20 seconds from the flag while leading my class by ten seconds and third on track including the Supertwins. I pushed the bike most of the way, but that’s against the rules so I was forced […]
Clawing it back
With the tank practically brimmed, race two went much better. I won by a healthy 13s, and was fourth over the line ahead of plenty of Supertwin bikes too. Overnight, I’m 1 point behind in the championship, but I’ve still never been beaten on track. I’ll sleep well and be on it again tomorrow. Just […]
Pembrey practice day
08 May 2009
Every racer loves it when the weather people get it wrong this way. The rain held off and the sun shone, leaving us with just the howling wind to contend with.
Pembrey preview
03 May 2009
ThundersportGB makes its first trip into Wales next weekend, for round three at Pembrey.
Aerostich Roadcrafter
02 May 2009
It is a pity you can only buy these suits in the US or import them as a personal import because for a commuter or someone who has to wear a suit they are brilliant. My Roadcrafter is plain black, and is pretty waterproof but won’t withstand a biblical deluge. However even in monsoon like conditions […]
