Archive for May, 2009

Guy’s first 09 TT update

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Ah, just had a barbie at the house we are staying here at the Isle of Man, mint. It’s Sunday and we got the first practice out of the way yesterday. It’s confirmed that the TT is best thing in the world ever. We got four laps in and it’s just given us an idea of each bike. Not got much to do before Monday night’s practice, except clean what seems to be the entire population of the Isle of Man’s flies from the front of me bikes and helmet. Robert’s your father’s brother, anyone know what that means?

Back of the van racing. Still mint.

The calm before the storm

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Well, it feels like a life time away since the NW200, but it was only last week.  We’ve been busy at work and busy getting stuff ready for the TT. The Northwest wasn’t much to shout about for anyone really. The weather let us down a bit and then there was all that hanging about before the races. What was all that about? I mean what are we there to do, race motorbikes or make a TV programme?  The whole day seems to be dictated by the TV schedule, and keeping the big team bosses happy. I’m not a sore loser or owt but I don’t understand why  races that got shortened by the changable weather get taken back differrnt amounts of laps. Farquhar should have won the Superstock race because he put his balls on the line in the dodgy weather, but no, they went back two laps so the results suited the big team. Then the Superbike race went back one lap. Why? I don’t know. The whole day’s goings on just confirmed that the TT is still the pinnacle of road racing, whatever anyone says.

Anyway, enough of me whingeing. I’m not into that . If you haven’t got owt nice to say dont say anything at all. I was brought up with that saying. Back in Lincolnshire I’ve been busy getting my Superbike ready for the TT and Johnny has been getting the Superstock bike ready. I reckon we’ve used our fair share of lock wire on just about everything, so we’ll not get owt dopping off or breaking down this year. Let’s hope not anyway. I’m off to the island in the middle of this week to get primed up for action. Oh and I’m doing something for the owners of the Douglas Ann Summers shop on Monday. I’m sure that will be an education. Rampant rabbit means something a bit different where I’m from.

Guy’s NW200 report

Blame it on me, the Northwest 200 crap weather was all my fault. I said to my mate and mechanic, Johnny a week or two ago ‘Bloody ell, it must have been 05 since we had a wet NW200 don’t you reckon?’

Well I was right, 05 was the last time we had rain at the NW, but Saturday didn’t let us down. It was truly shit all day. If it wasn’t blowing like hell it was slashing it down. Not one race ran the full distance and we missed out on a the main NW200 race and the 600 race because the weather couldn’t make its bloody mind up. Oh well, we got the bikes fairly well sorted and had a good laugh with the lads all week.

You ought to have seen the flat we where staying. By eck, it was proper, not a dodgy B&B, but a proper pimped up flat on the seafront of Portstewart . It was all thanks to good old Richard, a lad I met last year who pointed us in the right direction. Ta very much.

Oh well I’m off to bed, im at work in the morn. I’ll get some pics up soon. I reckon I’ve got some mint pics of Minis and Deloreans. What was the the specific MPH good old Doc Brown needed to go to go back in time?

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Oulton report, at last…

Sorry for being a bit slack on the blog front, it’s just since getting back from Oulton I’ve been a busy bee. Oulton went ok by the way . Yes, another DNF, but I took a gamble on the tyre front and went for full dry rubber when there was just a bit of drizzle. I thought ‘nowt to worry about here. It’ll hold off.’ Well it did until about 4 laps in. I got up to sixth and was making hay. The sun wasn’t shining, but I was still having a go. Then it started to drizzle a bit and it was carnage. I’m not a wimp or owt but the NW200 is next week and we could really do with a bike in one piece.

We have got some new K-TEC forks in, and they are cock on, that’ll leave us in good form for the roads.

Back at home we’ve been busy at work on the trucks, then been doing a bit of testing for Performance Bikes at Cadwell, then a bit of bike building ready for the NW200. Right best go and do a bit. Oh, and  I only own four pushbikes and one tool box now. I’ve just chopped two tool boxes in for a new SnapOn work station. It’s the size of a house, am I sad?

Race photo by Glynne Lewis 

For Phil Wain’s race report click the Oulton post in the Race Schedule box on the right.

Bring back hanging

Well as my motto goes, first things first. At Oulton some light fingered little ****** nicked my ******* push bike. I don’t own much in this life: a toolbox, a 1972 saab and four pushbikes. So when some **** goes and nicks something that I’ve worked ******* hard for it makes my blood boil. So I got stuck in, told the coppers, told the security and went on the hunt, no joy though. Maybe a good job. If I’d have found the little ********, they’d have been locking me up for murder.

Two hours went by and I got a call from the Old Bill telling me they’ve found a lad putting loads of bikes in the back of a van and would I come to identify if one was mine. Well there she was, not a mark besides the dust from the fingerprinting squad, and they got the little ******* –  a one-armed scouser! You couldnt make it up. Six bikes he’d nicked as well, all from the pits. I had to say sorry to the coppers. I was on the rev limiter at ‘em, telling them I pay their wages and to search every van coming out of the place. I’m sure I sounded a proper idiot, but I work hard for the stuff I’ve got, and when someone thinks they can take stuff, it really gets my goat. So a massive thanks to the Cheshire coppers, a mega job done by all. Oh and sorry again for revving out.

Mint, she’ll not be going to any race meetings again. Why would someone want to come to a motorbike meeting to nick peoples’ stuff? Bring back hanging, or maybe a public bumming would put some put some manners in the little ****. Sorry about the language but there isn’t a proper translation for *******, **** and ****, is there?

TT Do!

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