21-08-08, 09:46 PM | #1 |
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Me at 'the rock'
Oh and as this is the .org .... one of me on the SV when I took that out!! |
21-08-08, 09:48 PM | #2 |
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cracking pictures them! get a sponsor and do the R1 cup
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21-08-08, 09:54 PM | #3 |
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21-08-08, 10:01 PM | #4 |
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I can't see the pics?
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22-08-08, 12:51 AM | #5 |
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22-08-08, 04:31 AM | #6 |
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Yeah, but you shell out 15k to enter and you don't keep the bike!
Cool pics. Have you got new leathers? And stuck a Ducati badge on there? And changed your name to Andy? What gives?
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£15k with that sort of exposure is a bargain if it included all expenses ... you can spend that on club racing!! ... and you still ahve to buy/fix the bike!! The leathers are just like my old ones (but less scabby) and go with my new 1098 Last edited by Blue_SV650S; 22-08-08 at 08:22 AM. |
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22-08-08, 09:01 AM | #8 |
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Blue your riding style gets worse and worse, these pics look like they could be anyone off to the shops or doing the daily commute on the bike
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Actually blue, would you give us a run down of your bike racing/trackday career to date? Surely you were sh!t at some point - everyone has to start somewhere! Just wondering how you got to the standard you are today i.e how many season of reason, trackdays, track tuition etc?
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I was always fast, even on my first trackday (open pitalne), I was the fastest rider there, excluding the one racer that was testing there, and I wasn't massively slower ... and I was on a bog-stock road bike (R6). At that point I signed up to go racing ... so I had had 1 trackdays experience!! I got a new R6, but this time converted it directly to a racebike from new. It was basically a stock bike with a race fairing on it - I figured we were all rookies, that is all I'd need. I did another trackday (sessioned this time) to run the bike in ... even though I was running the bike in ... I was still the fastest dude there .... at this point I thought I was going to walk my rookie year (Rookie 600). I had spectated at a race meet about a year before, but I had never been in a race paddock before and I didn't know anyone that had already been doing it. I had a mate that was starting at the same time though. Anyway, my rookie year ... I had no idea what I was doing when I arrived at the paddock and it was bedlam ... people fighting for paddock space and people hogging massive areas .... a very hostile place ... the weather was **** too ... At this point I didn't have any wets ... just the bog stock dunlops the bike came with. I lined up on the grid … a grid awash with people on full wets and x-bss bikes …. Oh feck!! Needless to say I was to the lower end of the finishing grid. I didn’t come last, but prior to this I was disillusioned enough to think I’d be wandering off at the front … sure I had a wrong tyre choice, but I could see I was out of my league … Got some Ohlins for the bike about 1/3 way into the season but still with a stock engine. I was now top 15. 1/2 way into the season, I was top 10. By 2/3 I had my first podium. But I was really struggling on power at this point!!! (stock I was about 20hp down on the big boys!!). And that was my rookie year!! In consequent years I got faster, but technology was moving on and I didn't have the funds to keep up ... |
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