It was the first practice session of the season at Rye house speedway track, near Harlow Essex.
After falling on a corner and bending my gear leaver (bloody track was watered and was slipperyer than "Deer guts on a door knob!")
Gary Inman (from SIDEBURN) gave me some top advise ,Then the steel shoe that i made was CRAP, it was too thin and wore itself out after 2 1/2 sessions and i lost it half way through a lap.
Some nice bloke let me borrow his boot with a steel shoe, which was bloody amazing so i bought his boots for £50 (he was selling them anyway).
All the other racers were bloody lovely people to be around, it was such an amazing day. But the cherry on the cake was that it was the first warm day this year.
First actual race is in Kings lynn Norfolk on april 21st.
Support something cool and try to make it to a race this year.
4 comments:
Sounds like an awesome day and bloody hell did you have the weather for it. French people are hard to deal with at the best of times but when they are cool French people you're buggered!
You should check out Dimitri on the net. He is amazingly tallented and a very nice bloke. And makes bloody lovely crash helmets (Ruby Helmets)And races very cool bikes all over the world. Yesterday whilst everyone else was wrapped up in leathers his protection came from a pair of almost white jeans and desert boots.
I cant even look at white clothes with-out them instantly being covered in dirt an oil.
It was a pleasure to meet you and the family at the weekend Rob. It was a top day. First run of the XT was nice. Your Duke looked amazing. Unfortunately the cheapo '78 fuel tank has gone sulky so something will be Borges on for Kings Lynn and a better fix is already planned. Pete
Nuthin wrong with a good bodge, See you next week.
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