Farleigh Castle 2010 ... VMXDN

well ... where to start ?

what a meeting ....what a foOkin meeting....best ever ...to race on a track i watched the greatest GP's of all time...in days when men rode proper bikes on proper tracks ...rough tracks with no smooth lines, to get a chance to ride that same track and for those men i watched to be track side...walking the paddock....still talking the talk ..... and still having the same atmosphere.....as the great 80's era...........truelly ORSUM


rocked up Friday lunchtime, no guarantee of a ride, on the reserve list for Twinshock Open and Over 40's classes...was relying on some one eleses misfortune to get a ride .... as the afternoon progressed, the twin lines of vans / campers / trucks poured into the paddock....was i to get a race place with this amount of riders ???

confirmed at 8pm..i had i place in the Over 40,s ... yippee kay ay

Saturday AM Practice..Timed...my time would have put be 9th ...but as a reserve my time did not count...i would have 45th gate pick all weekend for every race

Saturday ..Race One....bike had been running fine ...starting fine all season...so what followed just amazed me.....as the gate dropped i got the drop...half way up the start - plug fluffed ..the bike bogged...rounded the tree...passed race control before bike finally died in corner two....OMG .....luckily Colins lad, David from Pro Circuit had seen by predictament...quickly grabbed a plug and spanner...and i was on my way...got 4 laps in.

no more races on the Sat...time meant i would have 3 races on Sunday


Sunday Race Two.....gated well from poor pick..rounded tree in top 3.....half a lap in..caught stake...took my left side out...gear lever shaft smashed...shifter hangin at 6 oclock....race over

** mad dash around paddock to fine new shaft...Bill Brown yo the rescue...strip down - rebuild...


Race Three.....holeshot..went slighty wide....running top 6 ...only for race to be red flagged....man down in the woods


Re Start....last to gate..couldnt find neutral...looked up - 15sec board had turned ..still had a starter in hi vis vest standing in front of my gate !...clicked what i though was second gear as gate dropped...bike next to me looped..i went side ways only to fluff then from actually being in 3rd....got left

......pulled through to finish 11th .... by now track was rough as old boots...brillaint


Race 4 .... 2nd round tree...dropped to 7th....then came through on what was a proper track...finished 4th...bike couhing and spluttering last half lap.....finished with no compression and poss blown gasket

but VERY VERY Happy



What a meeting.....what a weekend

..love this pic Andyyam took....there is one big smile inside that lid....the pic really does show how much i was loving the experience



date set for next yaer already fellas ...17/18 Sept 2011.....i'll be there

...gotta figure out

how to show pics.....but its the one in my avatar

Nice one mate.... will get some more pics up tonight hopefully.

Fokker right up there!!!

Fokker about to hit the binders, lets hope they work

On it

The re-start that Fokker remembers so fondly.....

Loving the last photo. Check out the the way the crowds looking

yzf wrote:

Loving the last photo. Check out the the way the crowds looking

Thats co they seen a million pics of that bike on the internet !!

monda wrote:

yzf wrote:

Loving the last photo. Check out the the way the crowds looking

Thats co they seen a million pics of that bike on the internet !!

The man....the leg-end

Two shots the opposition feared they would see...


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