So to my first Trackday on the GSXR. I had not done a huge amount in preparation for this outing. I got some Bridgestone BT016Pro tyres as they were cheap and had good reviews, and i always used to be a Bridgestone man. Every set of tyres I bought in the past has been Bridgestone, if I was just changing one I would usually match up to the existing tyre on the bike. I had done some road miles to get the tyre bedded in as I did not fancy scrubbing in the tyre at Cadwell!!!! On the road I had seemed to gel with the bike and I went well on it, though the gear change was a little stiff after I had had to change 2nd and 6th gear…
Aprilia RSV Mille 2000
As you will remember I have not been getting on brilliantly with he GSXR on the track. With the modified footrests, one inch lower half inch back, I really liked the bike and was having fun at Cadwell but then I lost the back end at Mansfield. I thought it was the lower footpeg digging in and levering the rear tyre off the deck but now I’m not so sure. The next trackday I put the pegs back to the standard and while I stayed on the bike I couldn’t get on with the riding position. With my long legs and the pegs being so high I really couldn’t hang off the bike and I just couldn’t put a good …
National Rally 2014
Bladebert (now R-Bert) and I agreed that we would do the National Rally again this year as we had such a great time last year, to be honest I was thinking we must do this again on the way back from the last checkpoint in 2013.
We both sent off our entry forms, mine was in a little before Bladberts so I was number 36 while Bladbert was 136, there were around 515 entrants in total in the end. We didn’t get much chance to set a route, and after flirting with starting at the Ace Cafe in London we both agreed that a start point near Lincoln was the way to go.
We then fleshed out a route that first headed West then curled…
