Eeeeek

[Red Herring]

Had a bit of a fright today....
Doing a trackday at Lydden with my son. During the lunch break we had a bit of a rush to fit a new front tyre to my bike, and turn the back one around (Lydden is really hard on the right side and a tyre won't last the day if you don't)
Anyway we were first out after the break and I did a couple of laps to scrub in the new tyre and then came down the hill to start my third lap, went to brake for Paddock and the lever came straight back to the bar.... Had a bit of panic back brake (in fact loads and almost ended up backing it in!) and just made the corner. Limped back into the pits and found that the pad retaining pin and one of the pads had gone from the left hand caliper. It seems in our rush to get it all back together I must have caught the caliper on something and knocked the little clip out. Lesson learned, check and double check everything...twice!

[Milky Bar Kid]

Alls well, that ends well..

[Holdup]

Not good, so i take it your track day finished sooner than expected then?

[Bluepete]

Oooooh, good save!

Pete ;)

[Red Herring]

Not good, so i take it your track day finished sooner than expected then?

It did for the GSXR. Fortunately I'd taken the Supermoto along as well so just rode that all afternoon! I'd promised my son a go on it and his Aprilia 125 went sick on him in the afternoon (probably just a plug) so we ended up sharing it for the last few sessions. He now doesn't want to ride the Aprilia any more...!

[Sid Squid]

Have you discovered a new and really bloody quick line through there though?

:D

[Biker Biggles]

Does it involve gardening and demolishing that old bus they use as an office?

[Red Herring]

Have you discovered a new and really bloody quick line through there though?

:D

Most definitely not!

[punyXpress]

. . . and I thought you had an invasion of mice!
As they say at Wimbledon: " New Balls, please "
And at Lydden: " New Shreddies, please. "
BTW: well held that man.

[Lozzo]

Had a bit of a fright today....
Doing a trackday at Lydden with my son. During the lunch break we had a bit of a rush to fit a new front tyre to my bike, and turn the back one around (Lydden is really hard on the right side and a tyre won't last the day if you don't)
Anyway we were first out after the break and I did a couple of laps to scrub in the new tyre and then came down the hill to start my third lap, went to brake for Paddock and the lever came straight back to the bar.... Had a bit of panic back brake (in fact loads and almost ended up backing it in!) and just made the corner. Limped back into the pits and found that the pad retaining pin and one of the pads had gone from the left hand caliper. It seems in our rush to get it all back together I must have caught the caliper on something and knocked the little clip out. Lesson learned, check and double check everything...twice!


I've seen that happen before, Gixer pad retaining pin R-clips aren't the best at staying in place. I got into the habit of either lockwiring the the R-clip in place or keeping the open ends together with a very small cable tie instead of lockwire.

[Red Herring]

I've seen that happen before, Gixer pad retaining pin R-clips aren't the best at staying in place. I got into the habit of either lockwiring the the R-clip in place or keeping the open ends together with a very small cable tie instead of lockwire.

Mine are Brembo monoblocks and they're even worse. Lockwire is exactly what I'm going to be doing in future!

And Biker Biggles, you're showing your age.... The bus went years ago, they've got some proper porta offices there now!

[Biker Biggles]

Place wouldnt be the same without the old charrabang and first world war toilets.
I grew up not far from there and we used to crawl through the hedge to watch the racing without having to pay.Couldnt afford more than the bus fare from Dover.

[maviczap]

This is a reverse Robert Green moment. That is you managed to save it :p

[Bibio]

boloxxx could have been another plod down...







just kiddin m8... glad your ok.

[Lozzo]

Place wouldnt be the same without the old charrabang and first world war toilets.
I grew up not far from there and we used to crawl through the hedge to watch the racing without having to pay.Couldnt afford more than the bus fare from Dover.

Haha, my nephew Peter used to do the same when he lived in Singledge Lane, Whitfield. He'd cycle up and then jump the fence at the back of the ciircuit when he was a young teenager.