Pics: Clive Challinor Words coming soon. Sit tight.
Mallory update
Photo: Andy Graves Evening all. Hows it all going? Just sat here at the wonderful Mallory Park. I’d say I was motorbike racing but I don’t think you could really call it that. Mallory, when i rode here last, six years ago, was a track where you could race motorbikes. Now I’d call it a glorified car park, a 1.41 mile …
100, coming ready or not
Photo: Andy Graves Guy will be racing at the Southern 100, not going to the Megavalanche (which is a huge downhill mountain bike race). ‘What have I done to deserve a holiday?’ says Guy. He will be taking his Hydrex Bike Animal Fireblade superbike, but not his 600, and is doing the event in a very low-key way. More news …
Thoughts from the tea room
Photos: Andy Graves Afternoon all. Just sat in the tea room at work watching some stuff you’d be better off not knowing about. Our transport manager is into some rare e-mails, not for this website me thinks. Maybe i should get em to put up a censored section. I don’t want to be getting the blame for corrupting young minds, …
Server’s been on the blink today
Sorry. Here’s a shot from Thruxton, taken by Martin Heath, to make up for it.
Snetterton photos
Photos: Martin Heath
Snetterton through a 1995 red wine filter
Photo: Andy Graves Evening all, just sat here looking at my computer through a bottle of 1995 red wine, kindly donated by my mate Stuart Crane. She’s going down a treat. My wine habit is all down to my old team mate Karl Harris. He used to get me drunk after most meetings last year, but its seems to have taken …
Back on the shorts
Some shots from Friday at Snetterton by my mate Andy Graves. Got to recalibrate my brain (after NW200 and the TT) to aim for a top ten finish in the championship.
TT Update
There is nothing left to say other than I’m truly pissed off, not a bit, but proper pissed off. We’ve had nothing but bad luck since I stepped on this place, I must have really pissed someone off in a past life. Between cranks snapping, engines blowing up and electronics going tits up, there is not a lot I can …
Signings
Had some mega ones this year. Thanks for all your support.
TT second 600 race
Photo by Gavan Caldwell Well, well… Just sat here after the second 600 race and all I can say is I’m well disappointed. But it’s the IoM and I always enjoy riding round here, but in sixth place? It’s just not good enough, is it? I just couldn’t have rode the old girl any harder. She just didn’t have the legs, …
Another TT photo
Photo: Andy Graves
After Monday’s first race
Photo: Andy Graves I struggled with the gears on the Superstocker in this morning’s race. I think it was me not being man enough after riding with the quickshifter on the superbike. It came good for the second half of the four-lapper though. It was jumping out of gear early on though. Me and McGuinness had similar problems and we …
TT update – Mad Sunday
Up early this morning to meet the editor of Italian GQ magazine for a phtoshoot in Douglas. They found this lovely tea room I’ve never seen before – bone china cups, tea strainers, tea leaves (no bags), the lot. It was fantastic. It was like sitting in my grandma’s front room. Dainese are over here in a big way and …
TT Update – Saturday
Sorry I haven’t been online for a while. It’s hectic here. Well, we’ve had the first race and it was a bit of a sickener. I was 10secs in the lead. Controlling the race and then the bike made a noise like a Dalek and stopped. Nothing more I can do about it. But, again, I’m looking at the positives. …
Looking back at the NW
Well, here I am Sunday afternoon after the North West and sore is not the word, but then I suppose you’d expect to be after hitting a kerb with my arse at a good 120mph. It’s not the end of the world though. We didn’t had the best NW200 but it could have been a damnsight worse. Look at the …
NW200 – Gutted
Photo: Alan Armstrong Photography I’m gutted not to have won either of the Superbike races and a double was definitely within my grasp. In the first race the brakes began to fade at half race distance and I had now way of adjusting them. My dad had made a special bracket for the span adjuster, but because of the crash …
Oh dear…
The after-effects of that Brands crash I told you about. Photo: Martin Heath
First report from Portrush
Well, I got into Belfast port about two o’ clock Tuesday morning and thought me and my mate Ivan would be better off kipping in the van for an hour or two to get caught up on some much needed sleep before a very busy night’s practice. The first night practice went without a hitch really. We weren’t out there to …
Watch the NW200
Thought you might be interested in this press release. You can get BBC1 (press the red button) and BBC Northern Ireland if you have Sky or Freeview, you’ve just got to search for it in the BBC regional listing menus. Please don’t send me questions about this. This is all I know. ‘BBC Northern Ireland will be covering the …