Kwacky's Mallory report
Posted: 08 Aug 2014, 18:55
Watching the weather forecast all week I thought we were in for at least a damp afternoon, so I packed spare gloves and my 2 piece oversuit. When Perky arrived at mine it was grey and far from summery. The weather hardly changed on the ride up.
We got to the circuit just after 8 and found Rocket parked up in his. The briefing was, well brief. Inters out first so we had some time to check tyre pressures and do what all track dayers do - talk shit
Jack showed up. Thanks again mate, we all love having you there.
My aim for the day was to sort out my body position, so I was taking it easy throughout the day. Input from Perky, Rocket and Jack all helped but it's clear that it's going to be difficult for me to get out of the habit of riding like I'm commuting to work. I also think that the track isn't the place to spend the entire day trying to ride differently unless I've got some instruction, so I'll be looking into that for next year.
On the other hand Perkles and Rocket soon found their trackday form and were flying around the track, knee down, overtaking pretty much everyone in each session. In all honestly all 3 of us should have been in inters but it was Rocket's first visit there and Perkles obviously didn't know he would get his mojo back to that extent.
One of the sessions Perkles kindly followed me and we swapped places a few times. It would have looked good on video. He's quicker into Gerrards than I am but I was soon catching then overtaking him towards the exit.
It wasn't all bad news. After lunch I decided to stop working on my body position and go for it. Apart from a rear end slide out of Edwinas and locking the front once into the hairpin it was a trouble free day. Another bonus is that the Hairpin no longer troubles me. I'm not race speed but I'm not dreading it as I used to.
Roadrace wasn't on the track but he made the effort to come from South Wales to pay us a visit. It's always good to catch up with old biker mates.
Rocket's face after each session was something else. Imagine a kid waking up on Christmas morning and finding that Santa had been and delivered all of the presents on that kid's list. That was Rocket after each session.
We got to the circuit just after 8 and found Rocket parked up in his. The briefing was, well brief. Inters out first so we had some time to check tyre pressures and do what all track dayers do - talk shit
Jack showed up. Thanks again mate, we all love having you there.
My aim for the day was to sort out my body position, so I was taking it easy throughout the day. Input from Perky, Rocket and Jack all helped but it's clear that it's going to be difficult for me to get out of the habit of riding like I'm commuting to work. I also think that the track isn't the place to spend the entire day trying to ride differently unless I've got some instruction, so I'll be looking into that for next year.
On the other hand Perkles and Rocket soon found their trackday form and were flying around the track, knee down, overtaking pretty much everyone in each session. In all honestly all 3 of us should have been in inters but it was Rocket's first visit there and Perkles obviously didn't know he would get his mojo back to that extent.
One of the sessions Perkles kindly followed me and we swapped places a few times. It would have looked good on video. He's quicker into Gerrards than I am but I was soon catching then overtaking him towards the exit.
It wasn't all bad news. After lunch I decided to stop working on my body position and go for it. Apart from a rear end slide out of Edwinas and locking the front once into the hairpin it was a trouble free day. Another bonus is that the Hairpin no longer troubles me. I'm not race speed but I'm not dreading it as I used to.
Roadrace wasn't on the track but he made the effort to come from South Wales to pay us a visit. It's always good to catch up with old biker mates.
Rocket's face after each session was something else. Imagine a kid waking up on Christmas morning and finding that Santa had been and delivered all of the presents on that kid's list. That was Rocket after each session.
Rich, you have the famous Ket "Where does the track go next?" look :-)