Mods please can you make this a sticky and get rid of our two old threads, we'll use this one now So bought a blade today, mega chuffed with it, from a forum member too (daznorthwest) really nice bloke and would do business with him again. Here she is.. And wedgie's which is a little (lot) nicer... Stay tuned guys!!! Here's the calendar- ROUND 1 BRANDS HATCH INDY Quick report copied from my facebook: Where to begin! What a weekend popping our endurance cherry... Got there and set up thursday night and regrouped with the hottrax gang. Friday went out on the dunlops on our blades worried we'd be doing a clinsman at turn 1, first session out both felt squeemish as temperature was single figures, went out second session and pushed on and loved it. Wedgie in the 54s me in the 52s by close of play test day. Mint curry and a beer friday with the lads nice to meet some new faces. Saturday started with quali... I went out as the session started on the slicks and it started raining so wobbled round for two laps and came in, sent out the Wedgemeister on wet tyres and due to a throttle malfunction he has a spill on his way out of pitlane... broken collar bone and a bruise the size of a planet on his hip. Tough lad, wasn't making a fuss just pointed at his shoulder and said "thats fucked". Off he goes to hospital and in steps our third rider Jonboy McNally wuuuufffff Started the endurance dead last in 37th but got away pretty well. Came in when the rain started again and jonboy went out on the wets smashing some great times in and sneaking in a 51.9 wicked. We had some interesting pit stops one with no wheels which cost us some time but it was all a learning curve. I was happy when the end came and I swear the last 30 minutes was the longest ever, enjoyed taking the flag. All in all we made up 20 places overall and finished 17th, 4th in class. Thanks to everybody who helped out it really was a team effort. Rob Herbert Dave Wedge Brian Leek Kyle Consterdine Josh Singleton my pops, wedgie's uncle and mate and everyone else who chipped in. Thanks to all the sponsors who made it possible for us starting from our trip to spain in february: Fms Car & Truck ltd Reevu Opie Oils Autoreclaim Well done to TBL top display this weekend lads, leekys first time racing and he took some impressive chunks off his times. Well done to all the other racers. Excited for wedgie to get back in shape and experience the buzz. Endurance is mega!!! See you at cadders Action pics to follow when they're done ROUND 2 CADWELL PARK Round 2 Cadwell Park We had been really looking forward to this one over the winter and pretty much wrote Round 1 @ Brands off as a learning curve... Shame that wedgie had his incident at brands as it meant that he couldn't ride this time round, so we used our 3rd rider Jonboy McNally who stood in for us at Brands last minute. Got to Cadders on the thursday and got set up with our full factory party tent and generator (would recommend this setup to anyone).. On the evening we got loads of pizza and beer delivered and got chatting about the weekend ahead... Friday (Test day) we woke up to a very wet and miserable cadwell park We both went out second session and slid around a lot not making much progress, there was standing water all over the place and only a handful of bikes out on track. They stopped the sessions until dinner time then declared an open pitlane. In the afternoon as a dry line started to emerge in places we kept going out and managed to get somewhere near still on wets and with most of the track still soaked through, me 1.51 and jonboy 1.46 (wet master) Knowing the following day was supposed to be dry we finished around 3pm and got scrutineered, wedgie had also turned up with loads of beers and our pit scooter Saturday morning and time for qually... With rain overnight the track was again a wet mess so jonboy went out first with the transponder, going well when a few laps in I see him sprinting up the hill by the mountain grandstand waving a transponder in the air, he'd gone down into charlies 1... On the bike and I went out for a few laps not really pushing as we potentially only had my bike left in one piece for the endurance. Stayed on it and came back in to find all the lads already sorting out jonboys bike, what a team every just cracked on with a bit each and it was soon ready to be rechecked at scrutineering. All in all not so bad and we qualified 22 on the grid out of 33 teams By 3pm we had carted everything we needed down to the pitlane and had both bikes on the warmers ready to go, we were the only team without a gazebo so as the sun came out at 2.59 (literally lol!) we had a sigh of relief Warm up lap took place and I positioned the bike ready for the start.. Lights out and I ran to the bike... start! no... In gear? Imobilizer?? Stalled it! what a blend. here's a pic of everyone gone and me still trying to get her going... Finally got started and went off like a scolded cat! Made up 9 places in the first 2 laps and by the time I came in we were sitting in 16th overall and 3rd in class (out of 10 clubman 1000cc teams) Jonboy went out and started putting in some solid times and we crept up a place into second, we were now hovering around the top ten mark My second stint was the best I've ever felt on a bike, loved every minute of it, only managed a 1.41 but with the temperatures in single figures I was happy and consistent, when I pitted we were inside the top ten and leading our class!!! Jonboy went out to continue the effort and came back in to send me out again for my final stint, this stint was shit safety car was out for most of it and then i got a board to pit, the team behind us had complained that jonboy overtook under safety car (more on this later). Came in but so did the safeety car so I couldnt serve the penalty and had to drive through, wait 10 seconds, then go back out. Another flying lap and then I came in to do a 60 second stop and go penalty. All in all around 3 minutes lost dropping us back into second. Bollocks!!! Finished my stint and came in to jonboy going out with the angriest face ive ever seen. He was lapping 4/5 seconds a lap quicker than the other team on a K1 gsxr 600 (they were on brand new zx10s), but we just couldn't pull it back... Jonboy took the flag with us lying in 2nd place for clubman 1000s and 9th on the road not too bad to say we started about a minute behind the rest with my cocked up start. We tried to contest the penalty but you have to make an official complaint and pay to send off forms, we didn't want that we wanted the trophy as we knew we deserved it. Jonboy has contacted the tv company who were recording as the safety car flags weren't out until the gooseneck and he overtook at charlies 1. If we get it on camera its off on facebook lol. Either way it was an interesting race and throroughly enjoyed by all, can't wait to go back in the summer when its warmer and get into the 30s. Bike was mint, the pit team were faultless. Can't wait to have wedgie back at pembrey and take it to them again!! Here's the trophy... Thanks for reading guys ROUND 3 PEMBREY ROUND 4 SNETTERTON 300 ROUND 5 OULTON PARK ROUND 6 KNOCKHILL ROUND 7 ANGLESEY COASTAL ROUND 8 DONINGTON PARK GP ROUND 9 SILVERSTONE NATIONAL ROUND 10 MALLORY PARK
You boys will have a great year 2015. Looking forward to following it .. Great to meet you today mark. Nice to put a face to a name.
We'll have to start calling Daz 'Arfur Daley' ! Never known a guy be involved in the buying and selling of so many Bikes and Bike related gear in so short a time! You'll av a good un there YT if Daz has had a hand in it!
Will do guys, Still a lot of good banter to be read through and pictures etc for any newbs/stalkers/fans so I won't delete them, just let them fade away into the 1000rr hall of fame by natural progression. Does this request apply to your good self too Wedgie?
Sp1 for the road graham. On with next tears trackbike that I got off nutty.. Hooefuly gonna be a belter when it's done. I'd if kept the one Yorkshire tyke bought today if I didht have one already ..I'll waiting on s few bits so I can start putting IT bsvk together Only one Arthur on here jay haha
Yeah that's fine now worries we could of done with 10 spaces for the rounds at top though couldn't we I forgot how we done that ......and tyke your the biatch xxxx
Normally after the thread you make ten comments. Reserved 1 etc etc. not sure how to do this to maintain the continuity now while the tread is live though. :edit: Had a look, and other than a mod/admin deleting all the posts then one of you guys doing the next 10 comments I haven't a clue. Didn't want to mess too much, I've got previous for fcuking stuff up I ain't got a clue about
Might be worth trying mate if they cheaper than dunlops heard dunlops need some heat keeping in them so if conditions are iffy can be a bit of a hndful . Anyone any input for us
