Donnington 26th August Road bike only trackday with NL

[alex]

Look fwd to meeting you Graham

 

[Kev_b hp4]

Can't wait , now do one rain . Supercorsas are poo in the rain .

 

[Kev_b hp4]

Thoroughly enjoyed today , and nice meeting Alex soofsayer and he be gb , hope you all got home safe .

 

[soofsayer]

Well, what a cracking day! My day went like this....

We started with a wet track, The rain had stopped. In a way I was quite happy with that for the start of the day having not been to Donington before and needing to learn quickly. The first session was very steady, sighting laps really, great to learn the layout. Perfect.

By the second session it was drying out nicely and by the third it was dry as a bone. At the end of the fourth session I was going well, had a perfect exit out of Goddards with much more speed than ever before, and subsequently overcooked going into Redgate and put myself in the kitty litter, by about 20 feet. Managed to keep the bike upright and intact, albeit buried up to the axles in gravel. I haven't washed it yet but I expect to be using the touch up paint a bit, we shall see....

Because I managed to do this just before we broke for lunch I had 2 hours to ponder. By the time we got to 2pm to start again I was getting cold feet about the whole thing and the confidence was going. Went out and very nearly repeated myself at McLeans, this time running wide on exit. There was the kitty litter beckoning me again. For fooks sake, pushing too hard, not smooth, trying to force the pace, idiot. I remembered some advice I was given after my earlier off by John (not on here) about what to do, and because of that I managed to avoid the litter this time but still managed to get the bike on the grass, and then back to track. This isn't going well. I'm selling it when I get home and hanging the boots up!

I must have been visibly a bit shaken. Hebegb offered to lead me round for a few laps in the next session. It worked, got my flow back and found some more time, all great again. And that's how it stayed for the rest of the day.

Donington is a fantastic circuit, one I should have been to before now, what a nice treat you lot on Saturday will be getting, enjoy!

Big hello again to Kev on his HP4, sorry we didn't really get time for a chat, but great to meet you. You were going really well on your bike, great to watch.

Alex - let me know when you've got some footage uploaded.

Thanks to nolimits for a flawless trackday, and to the lack of nobs riding like dicks.

Thanks to John, Simon and Graham for taking time to give me good advice and help. It all worked, a great result.

 

[he-be-gb]

Top day mate - really enjoyed it and was a shame to see your normal happy smiley persona lose its sparkle for a brief period - we've all been there ...and I could see you had loaded up a bit of pressure on yourself and thought I had an idea of how we could turn that around without too much effort...
You accepted a tad of "assistance" graciously and, put it to bloody good effect - smiles restored , and some seriously smooth, graceful and pretty quick enough in anybody's company lappery was soon achieved - good work - good to see you and Alex and sorry I didn't see much of anyone else as I had my hands full with tuition in Group 1 with the boss's lad and some playing in Group 3 with you guys - cheers - look forward to the next one boys ..!

 

[alex]

Hi Guys, I'll write more thoughts tomorrow, I am working on uploading my video's, which will give Graham lots of material to break down my riding and point out how my throttle control is holding me back!

Was good to see Soof again, so glad you stayed upright, but shame about the disc lock situation too.
He-Be and Kev, good to meet you both. Would value some track tuition some time, He-Be if we're at another one together.

In the mean time here's a still of my biggest whoopsie. I didn't get my breaking done in time and am about to take the Kwak's nose off... glad he was alert to the incoming black missile! (I apologized profusely afterwards!)

 

[bananaman]

Sounds like a good day !

 

[soofsayer]

This was Alex going by on his black rr in the inters group yesterday (2nd bike in clip). Not very exciting but he'll thank me for making him infamous. And I've just started posting to YouTube so why not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Y-LSXnGK8

 

[alex]

Wooo...cool, literally have no clips of myself doing flybys...will post yours later.

 

[alex]

No idea who this is...but I thought it was a good shot for a phone!

 

[Kev_b hp4]

I think I have a video of the fast group going round Melbourne loop so once I've figured out you porn i mean you tube I'll get it up I mean post the video ��

 

[Kev_b hp4]

Any ideas who the official photographer was , need to see what the professional shots look like ????

 

[alex]

Any ideas who the official photographer was , need to see what the professional shots look like ????

There will be a link on No Limit's page however I believe they said they would not be up till tomorrow earliest.

 

[alex]

http://trackdaydigitalimages.com/recent-trackdays/

Make that Sunday.

 

[Kev_b hp4]

Thanks for that Alex , think I got you on Melbourne loop as well , just uploading to photo bucket as YouTube seems to be taking hours for a 9second clip !!!!!! So annoying .

 

[Kev_b hp4]

[video]http://s722.photobucket.com/user/Kev_bhp4/media/CE0D6702-DBE8-4870-9FFC-39113B784D56_zpsj4gkktua.mp4.html[/video]
alex at the beginning and me at the end .

 

[alex]

Wooooo take 2 Excellent....My vids are taking eons to upload.

Looks like you were having fun fighting in the pack!

 

[Kev_b hp4]

Loving this video of me , knee down and a lil wheelie [video]http://s722.photobucket.com/user/Kev_bhp4/media/5DC4957E-AE56-44D8-B175-D5FA91152641_zpstvsvfmd4.mp4.html[/video]

 

[Kev_b hp4]

Last one fast group I think [video]http://s722.photobucket.com/user/Kev_bhp4/media/7BE498B8-427C-41B0-9444-C39A5A1E6A49_zpsuuoqupzm.mp4.html[/video]

 

[alex]

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