We had a great run to Break at Easter but since then the two runs to the Ace café and the Donnington Bikefest have been rained off. We’re not talking spring showers here but torrential downpours that kept the hardiest traveller inside.
Coming up are two local runs, one to put some bikes on the Esplanade at Sheringham on Father’s Day to support a Break event and our annual hippy/druid visit to Blakeney to watch the sun disappear behind the Point.
The Break “do” is limited to Club members bikes only as there are restrictions on numbers ,details will be given at Monday June 11th and we’ll probably ride from the “Shoes”. The idea of the event is for various organisations that may appeal to dads to present what they have to offer so we will be promoting the Club and Biking in general.
The Blakeney run will as usual be a friendly night out ,hopefully meeting other clubs and bikers, to just enjoy a drink and a get together to enjoy the longest evening of the summer. Meeting place and time will again be discussed at Club on the 11th.
I have had one outing that didn’t get rained off. 4 of us went off to Cadwell Park for a track day on what turned out to be probably the best day in May. Gary, John and I set off at 4.30 am to meet Jef , who had stayed in luxury close to the track, only to find that he was still eating breakfast when we arrived . All our gear was in the trailer with Jef so we got off to a slow start.
For the first time ever we had to pass noise meter tests before we could ride but all got through OK. There has been a lot of re-surfacing carried out and even a bit of smoothing of the brow of the “Mountain” so it was a bit odd on the first few laps. This and the fact that it was the first time I’d taken the 955i Daytona there made me a bit nervy on the first session. As usual Gary and Gixer John got straight into the groove and Jef’s Blade was too quick for me still.
As the day went on there were numerous crashes which eventually lead to a major bollocking on the tannoy as we were asked to ride with our heads rather than any other part of our anatomy and I think things were a bit calmer in the afternoon.
Sadly Jef’s blade literally spat the dummy, firing a plug out of the head early in the afternoon. With tell tale aluminium in the threads it was obviously game over for the Honda so he changed to group one and took our bikes out in turn. It must have been an interesting afternoon finding the best of the four different bikes and enjoying the differences.
For the second time this year Gary “Flymo” Browne managed to stay entirely on the tarmac and I have to confess to being the only one of our merry band who had to take to the grass having locked the front brakes up avoiding an R1 which left the track only to rejoin rather dramatically right in front of me at the chicane.
We had a brilliant day and look forward to going back. We all agreed that a day at Cadwell is worth about 3 at Snetterton.
Well , other news…
Stu is back from Thailand and looking very refreshed. You can still see what he got up to on his blog. Well most of it anyway!
Adi is chuffed to bits with his new Blade which is very subtly seductive in sexy silver.
Jim (who has not yet rejoined but has wangled his way onto the e-mail list!) has just gone and ditched the sports bike experience for a Honda Verydearo for not very much money at all. (and I thought I was getting old!) as has David who is far too busy polishing his pumps to ride the thing!
Den has bought a lovely Lawson Rep Kawasaki on the pretence that his old bike was too big, So how big is the new one then Den?
Brits abroad is getting very close now so I hope you all have your ferry tickets sorted. Accommodation is sorted but I was having trouble getting confirmation from Vianden Their e-mail was kaput and I‘ve just sorted it out on the old fashioned telephonic communicator. So it will be Belgium, Belgium, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, France and then home. That’s something else to chat about on the 11th.
Keep it shiny side up, Gibbo
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