Friday night rode over to Oulton Park International motor racing circuit in Northern England) with my pal for a day at the races on saturday. It was good of Lee, another friend, to ride his Vespa the 250+ miles up from South Wales on his own, and Paul to glide up on that bloody big greasemachine of his from near London...hope they had a good day, despite our scooter club's Lambretta not performing. First practise saw our man Martin get out & complete the session, but sounding a bit rough....turned out he'd pretty much done the lot in 3rd gear as he couldn't get 4th!
After some tinkering & a bit of carb tuning it was 1st race time and the thing was a pig to start, but he made the starting gate, just in time. The parade lap saw all scooters re-emerge on the grid, all except for our man Martin....it'd siezed on the way round & after the race a strip of the top end showed pretty sever damage. The rings were worked out of the piston-sieze, bits cleaned up etc & re-assembled, but it was all to no avail as it died again, just before race 2 was called.
The racing really was a joy, despite Martin not being involved, and the current bun did it's best....sunburn round me neck now & stings like hell when I look back over either shoulder on the scooter.
Great ride back over the Pennines with yet another friend, Steve, who'd made it out for the day, saturday teatime.
Moonbase Feckspeed, friday night.
Arty farty shot of Knickerbrook from between the steps on the bridge
Pitlane
With lovely sunshine, not a good day for pushers of unreliable bikes(ie. ME!!). The old legs are a bit achey today!
Some of those big chappies were quick!
Always a great spectacle to see the sidecars....
Some of the gathered scooters....
Meanwhile, back on the track...
After some tinkering & a bit of carb tuning it was 1st race time and the thing was a pig to start, but he made the starting gate, just in time. The parade lap saw all scooters re-emerge on the grid, all except for our man Martin....it'd siezed on the way round & after the race a strip of the top end showed pretty sever damage. The rings were worked out of the piston-sieze, bits cleaned up etc & re-assembled, but it was all to no avail as it died again, just before race 2 was called.
The racing really was a joy, despite Martin not being involved, and the current bun did it's best....sunburn round me neck now & stings like hell when I look back over either shoulder on the scooter.
Great ride back over the Pennines with yet another friend, Steve, who'd made it out for the day, saturday teatime.
Moonbase Feckspeed, friday night.
Arty farty shot of Knickerbrook from between the steps on the bridge
Pitlane
With lovely sunshine, not a good day for pushers of unreliable bikes(ie. ME!!). The old legs are a bit achey today!
Some of those big chappies were quick!
Always a great spectacle to see the sidecars....
Some of the gathered scooters....
Meanwhile, back on the track...
