Lydden Trackday October 2007

Some cool shots, did you ride this time Samnooshka???

Flaming Squirrel looks like he was on the move, also looks tiny on the SV!! (how tall are you FS?) Got the gold USD forks, the lot on that puppy!!

There is a fair mix of bikes there, how many SV's showed?

About 7 SV's i think...

I didn't ride, i was pit crew for this one lol taking all the tools down in the car for the lads to use. I also needed to practice my photography so hence the pictures

I got some more to come, but its taking a while to upload to Flikr

[chris8886]

and practice you did VERY well, those are some quality pics!!

Kinvig

Gazman

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

Some cool shots, did you ride this time Samnooshka???

Flaming Squirrel looks like he was on the move, also looks tiny on the SV!! (how tall are you FS?) Got the gold USD forks, the lot on that puppy!!

There is a fair mix of bikes there, how many SV's showed?

I'm 5'6"

Yeah I was doing ok, was passing a fair few sports bikes in the inters group towards the end. Then I had a bit of a mishap...








Mashed fairing:



Mashed 'zorst:



Bent front sub-frame:



The bike must have flipped and hit the ground upside down, as you can see the top of the rear sub-frame is bent too:



Snapped clip-on:



Radiator, more ****ed than an Irishman on St Patrick's Day:



When I brought the bike I noticed the bike was wet, and that there was no coolant left in the expansion vessel. I thought that given the state of the radiator I must have punctured it. But looking over the bike today I found this:



The pipe to the expasion bottle snapped off the radiator filler. So believe it or not, the radiators still good!

I was looking to turn the SV into a track bike at some point anyway, so thankfully it shouldn't actually cost too much to put right.

Considering I came off at the fastest part of the track and the bike and I both tumbled, we both came off remarkably well

Nice photos Sam, looks like a great day apart from the offs.

Makes me wish I'd done a trackday, always next year.

Thanks Samnooshka!

Woo Hoo!!!!!

Cheers Sam!

FS -> What happened? How'd you get home?

Dan called his recovery for his lift home in the van. Since we only live 5 mins from eachother, I slipped the guy £20 and asked him to take me too!