Cartagena or bust!

Right then it's all go! I've made the (silly for my wallet) choice of doing a few days in Spain to get the bike set up well and give me some dry time hopefully, before the season starts.

Speed king, apparently!

So a copy of BT Today came through the door this morning. It's a national BT internal magazine for all the employees, lots of info about what the employees are up to, charity events, sporting acheivements, etc. This month i've got a little bit of a thing in there :)

BT - "BT wouldn't be able to support you with any sponsorship, as to actively encourage your racing only to have you off work from injury wouldn't be productive for us!"

Bongo

Dry ride #1, £25 bargain day!

So after the ride in the wet on 5th Feb, i stripped the bike and did a nut and bolt front to back. With everything good, it was just a case of waiting until Tuesday 8th for the next ride out.

Like i said in the last blog, I'd spent the first day in the horrible wet, setting up the controls on the bike to be comfortable. Levers, rearsets, bars etc. In between rides i fitted thicker seat foam, and a bumstop, so i could ease up on the bars when i was exiting corners.

Someone told me my shock needed servicing as it had 'dropped it's gas'. I had my doubts, but followed it up with a call to Pete Clifford at http://www.actiforceracing.co.uk we arranged to look at the bike at Oulton on the Tuesday.

Nice bit of watercolour!

A guy on facebook decided to have a paint last week and i found myself tagged. It's a brilliant and simple painting and i was made up! If you're interested in having one done, i think he'd like to do a few more... Add him to facebook and ask him about it. Allentino Rossi (Ali Lanky-fizza Gaut)

Bongo x x x

The first ride - A day of function

Eh up,

So yesterday i rode for the first time since September. We decided to take the plunge and risk an Oulton park trackday to test out the new bike and get back into the swing of things for 2011, and unsurprisingly for an early Febuary trackday, the weather wasn't on our side!

Welcome to my blog!

Welcome to my blog people! I'll be constantly updating this with my goings ons, whether it be racing and bike related, or whatever else i may be up to. I guess it's a good time to have started things off as i've just come back from the first bike related event of 2011, the Preston & District Motorcycle Club (PDMCC) Annual presentation evening, where i was fortunate enough to be presented with the Formula 600 and 501-1300cc championship trophies! I also won the Arthur Scott memorial trophy for the fastest lap average over the season in the club which was a great surprise, and it was presented to me by none other than Tony Scott, the legendary tuner! It was a great night!

Anyway, keep checking back! Off to Oulton on Saturday for a first ride on the new bike, so pics and vids will be up sharpish!

Bongo x x x