Todays track day for Scott and I

Well as some off you may know Scott and i did our first ever trackday today we had a nice early start and met at the gates off silvertsone about 7ish this morning. My bike then decided it would break down at the gate so Rich (baldspeed) gave it a push to the main area for me whilst Scott arranged for a couple blokes to put it into a van.
Anyway we eventually got it goin after a few bump starts then it was fine :o
So we had the breifing and prepped the bikes with tape, removing the wing mirrors etc then off we went for the first sighting laps.
After that we were let loose around the full gp circuit and jeeeeeeeesus was it fun, i struggled to keep up with alot off the big boys on their 750's and thou's etc but i had a ball espcially when i was all over some off them on the bends.
We couldve carried on until 8ish tonight but by 4ish i was shattered, i did approx 100 miles around the place so that was fine for me. So here are a few pics of me and im sure scott will show you some off his too, to all going on the second of july who havent done a trackday before you will LOVE IT!!!!!!! ;) ;D 8-)
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...rackday009.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...rackday007.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...rackday004.jpg

i do have some more but im on dial up at home and its taking ages so i will try and post the others tomorrow :)

Oh yeah one more thing Scott officially got his knee down, so congrats biggest bro :D :)

Well, Gixer Paul and I did lose our track virginity today as he says and boy, what an experience it is!!!! ;D ;D I can see why the likes of GixerBoy, Rex, Gav and everybody else loves attending track days!!! ;)

Anyway, I won't bore you with the rest of the details, but, on the 2nd session on track I managed to get my knee down twice as Paul says, and I did so again a few more times throughout the day!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D Now for me to do it on some of the 90mph corners and not the 50mph ones!!! As you can see in the picture below, I'm not that far off on this occassion and this is a 80mph bend (for me it is anyway! ;))! ;D ;D ;D

Here's a couple of pics of me from today (one slightly blurring unfortunately)

http://www.nicewallace.co.uk/Silverstone/dsc_9864.jpg

http://www.nicewallace.co.uk/Silverstone/dsc_9927.jpg

To all those other trackday virgins who are attending Silverstone on the 2nd July (I'll be there again), believe me, you will have a superb time! onfire - this could be your time for getting the knee slider touching the tarmac. ;)

PS. As much as I hate getting out of bed early in the morning, on this occassion, it was well worth it! ;D

PPS. Do you think I've put enough ;D in my post? ;) ;D

Well done guys,some good piccys......No vests next time! 8-) ;) :)

Sounds like you had fun! :)

BB

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Originally Posted by GixerBoy

Well done guys,some good piccys......No vests next time! 8-) ;) :)

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If you kids go out with no vest you'll catch yer deather cold >:( Gixer you should know better.

Ha ha......ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz....... ;)

Looks good guys, I'll do a track day one day!

Well done lads, only problem is once ya done ya 1st ya will hate riding on the road and you will spend a fortune on track days......BUT its well worth it, ya cant get that kinda buzz and adrenaline rish anywhere else....

No?

Really??

Gav, the ride home was bloody awful! I had to constantly check the speedo as I kept finding it creeping up to silly speeds! :D

GixerBoy - yep, next time out there will be no vest for either of us, so at least on the 2nd July, I won't stand out so much! ;) :D Good thing about yesterday, I stuffed it up a few Gixer Thou's! ;D

Deffo no vests next time as scott said he got past a few gixer thou's i went past an R1 which i was chuffed with but it just seemed there were alot of straight line wonders there

Good for you guys 8-).....Lots of wannabe thou riders out there...... ::) ;)

Wow...looks like a great time. I cant wait for the 2nd either...but i will have to don the vest unfortunatley...
Scott...awesome news on getting ur knee down dude...post ur slider!!

GB, you are not wrong! Some of them were a real PITA in to be honest. They would use all of their power down the straights and then wobble around the corners forcing me to keep changing my lines mid-corner in an attempt to get by. Oh well, it's all good fun! :D

I just hope onfire isn't like this on the 2nd! ;) Tim, that's a joke btw!

Mac, here you go:-

http://www.nicewallace.co.uk/Silvers...kneeslider.jpg

no knee down from me though :( although scott recons i just need to hang off some more, we were supposed to have bike mounted cameras fitted but the guy dissapeared which was a bummer as i wanted to use those for techniques etc.

God dam that was a long push......loads of jokers saying yuo can ride it down. Muppets would I be sweating me tities of pushing it......er no. Bumped started it down one of the big downhills over the bridge and popped a wheelie.....yeh Im cool but then the bike went burp burp bahhhhhhhhh not today fat boy. Anyway we or I think the problem may be down to the sensor on the side stand causing the problem due to it killing the whole bike as in a master cut off.

Good day but I was knackered nearly asleep in between my bro's being out. I was chief camera man so hopefully touch wood I got some good footage on the boys.

Well done to bigbro for scrapping his knee a few times............Paul was walking along dragging his knee along a wall trying to keep up.

Shame there are no pics with the smillies boys!!!!

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...l/DSC_0497.jpg
here you go i was angry face and scott was smiley

http://www.nicewallace.co.uk/Silverstone/dsc_0394.jpg

haha both of them quality pic bro

YAY quality, was I good idea of mine with the smilies. I not just a pretty face.............awaits the jokes. Come bring it boys!

it was funny as some people walked past the backs (because they were there to) and smirked as if to say wtf. However there were a few stoney faced people who obviously thought we were idiots, OH WELL :):)

Like the smileys guys,nice touch! :D

i ordered a pic from the day and this is the one i went for,
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...l/DSC_8929.jpg

i liked it as it looked fairly quick, howver i do like the one at the beginning where its just my bike

well done chaps

well done chaps

thank you

thank you again :o ;D ;D

;D pmsl

;D

Impressed Scott... The Real McCoy !

Very pleased for you. Well done 8-) Just hope I can do the same at Silverstone. :-[ ;D

Looking good out there boys.... Prepare to kiss goodbye to any spare cash you may have had from now onwards :D

Foo, you are not wrong.... I'm already thinking about the next one after Silverstone! ;D

Tim, you'll be fine chap! ;)

Class ... cant wait to day a proper track day ...