Brands Hatch Thundersport GB and Bikesportnews.com Ladies Race 30 May, 1 Jun 2008
I believe this is the 1st time in the UK for a ladies race to have taken place, so as well as the PR side of things, it was always going to be a lot of fun and somewhat interesting. It was also a bit of a Feisty reunion; Leila even came out of retirement and then there were the other 14 ladies which signed up for a blast.
I left on an earlier flight from Vienna; I’m finding things a lot less stressful when I’m not racing the clock to get there. I brought my entire race gear home a few weeks ago following training at Assen; it was all part of the big logistical plan that is my season. So a nice relaxed me went out to play on Friday in the practice sessions. Now, I’ve always thought of Brands as my home circuit, I’m on 1st name and drinking terms with a lot of the staff there, so it was a bit of a home coming. I went out in the 1st session just for a nice and easy whizz around, just to blow the cobwebs out. I was amazed to see on my lap timer quite a few 52 second laps, which all came very easily. My fastest lap on my R6 previous was 52.4. Yey me J
I had quite a chilled day for the rest of the day, the standard suspension works well for me and I feel I have really gelled with the bike now, I swapped Sooz for a session and went out to play on the R1 (fair play for lugging that beast around Brands Indy) and also played with Leila for a bit on track. Fastest, unofficial lap time of the day a 51.1 Double yey me. J J
Saturday Morning qualifying. I went out on the same tyres as the previous day for the 1st qualifying session. I managed a 51.7 which put me 6th on the grid for the 600 race, nice. I put a new rear on for the second session and manage to find another .1 of a second, but a few others found time too, so I was placed 9th on the grid for the 600 superpole race later in the day, I chose not to enter this as I’d spent a small fortune to get here to compete in the ladies race and the 600 race was 1 race before the ladies race. I’m not as young as I ....... Actually the truth is, I’ve not been training as I should this year and a 15 lap race 10 minutes before the main event would not have been a good decision, plus I only had 2 rear tyres for the entire weekend.
The time set with the boys in Qualifying had earned me 4th on the grid for the ladies race, behind Jenny Tinmouth, British Supersport rider, Sooz was in 2nd and Sarah Jordon in 3rd. Sarah had just done the 15 lapper with the boys and confirmed my choice to sit it out was a good one, as she never made it to the grid for the 1st ladies race. I didn’t get as good as a start as I was hoping for and went into turn 1 behind Jenny and Sooz, that was the way the rest of the 10 laps went. I hung onto Sooz for a few laps, but really screwed up when I came upon a back marker. I was trying to be gentle and ended up much worse off than if I’d have just got on with it. So a nice 3rd place and a 51.3. Yey again.
Sunday. I went out for the 600 race in the morning; I had a wicked battle with Alex Bailey, an old adversary, in the warm up lap tee hee. I got a good start and went wide on the 1st corner, that saw me round the outside of a few which also gave me a good line for druids. It’s racing, but I was going around the outside at druids and a slower bike was just drifting out wide underneath and I was forced out with him which saw a few of the guys I took at paddock, get back under me at druids, including Sarah. I got a bit of a tow from her but she disappeared off after a few laps, she’s riding brilliantly right now. Apparently I had a good lead on Bailey, but my times were dropping lap by lap and he came underneath me into paddock towards the end of the race, he was all over the place though so I just retook him on the way out again. On the last lap, he came again at druids and he practically parked it and went nice and wide in, my intention was to get him on the way out again, but he had executed the perfect block pass screwing both of our exit speeds. I chased him to the line but my biggest problem all weekend had been coming out of clearways, I have a healthy fear of highsiding on the exit, I’d like to use the excuse of my bike being of Superstock Specification as to why I lose out on the straight, but I know myself, it’s a brain to right hand modification that I need. I really tried to squeeze the power on just that bit earlier and harder, but didn’t quite get him on the line; there was .2 of a second in it. Well done Bailey. I did find however another 2 tenths for a 51.1 done in an earlier lap chasing Sarah. Could I actually make a 50???
Ladies’ Race Sunday. I had a much better start, out of the corner of my eye, I saw Sarah’s front wheel lift maybe a little too high for comfort so gained the advantage when she had to roll off slightly, in front of me now was clear track and I though I had the hole shot. Alas, Jenny came sweeping across from the outside, I had 2nd though in front of Sarah and then Sooz I believe. Sarah attacked at Druids coming up the inside before the braking area; I just went round with her on the wider line and held inside for Graham Hill. Form what Sooz said, she was going to try and take both Sarah and I along cooper straight using the massive HP from the R1, unfortunately, she apparently had quite an impressive highside, but managed to save it only to lose control further down the straight and crash. Sorry Dudette L
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I was still in front of Sarah going into clearways and I was determined not to let my right hand and head dictate the exit as I had seen earlier chasing Sarah that this really is where I loose all my time. Unfortunately, the expected happened as I opened up harder and earlier, the rear let go just enough to send me up in the air a bit and I lost the tiniest bit of drive which of course Sarah took advantage of and got underneath me. I chased her for the rest of the race, I was gaining so much on most of the circuit, I was right behind her most laps going into druids, but especially after the 1st lap drama, clearways was even worse on the exit and she was pulling around a 100m each time out of clearways Grrrr. I was also riding defensively into Surtees as I had no idea Sooz had crashed and this is her strongest corner at brands. I was expecting her to duff me up every lap. I managed to get really close to Sarah on the last lap, but of course the run to the line is out of #@**@## clearways, she beat me by a clean couple of seconds in the end. Another 51.1 and a 3rd for me and a sub 51 for Sarah, nice work.
Thanks to everyone who came along, we had a huge amount of support at the weekend, special thanks to Ian for looking after the bike and I’d like to congratulate Thundersport GB for an absolutely superbly ran meeting. I hope to be out playing again in the UK, but the rest of my plans for the season are all in Europe.
Next onto Assen. Game on.
Misano Round 1 European Women’s Championship
And so the season really begins.
The rig went down to Misano with Sooz and David a week ago, so there was none of the usual rushing around getting the van, then getting the bike, it was all set. Just the job of a leisurely 8 hour drive down from Vienna via the bike shop to pick up some bits and pieces that still hadn’t arrived the day before only to find that they still hadn’t arrived today and also to find that there were no Dunlop front wets in Austria. I was really concerned because it may not have been possible to get them in Misano. Luckily the race meeting had support from Dunlop Italy and they had loads. Phew!!!
I arrived at 1am and spent the 1st night in the hotel, very nice apart from the cold water and then no water, this firmed up the decision to stay at the circuit in the van.
We tried to get in the circuit early, but a firm 1700 was set by the Italians as there was a track day running on the Thursday, so we squatted in the lay-by outside where Sooz and David did some much needed work on the R1. I remember this from last year. It’s not easy only having your bike at race meetings as this is the only time you get to do any work on it.
I took advantage of the fact the circuit was in a holiday resort and went for a walk along the beach, a dip of the toe confirmed I wouldn’t be swimming and after 1 minute in a bikini, the fleece and wind proof went back on again. Brrrr. Still better than the rain that had been forecast. When we eventually did get into the circuit, even though we were one of the first to arrive and had been parked there for 7 hours, they directed the van to the back of beyond (just like last year in Vallelunga) so lots of arm waving and shouting earned us a parking place amongst the Italians in the main paddock, with power and water and everything ;o)
Thursday night was a nightmare, like last time in Misano it was really windy, I was up several times in the night trying to batten everything down. I had to take the main awning down in the end and get everything into the van awning, which was also trying to make like a parachute. Ah well, who needs sleep anyway.
I was up nice and early on Friday morning as we had loads to do. A time table stated scruteneering would be by class, EWC at 08.50, so I went to sign us on, there was about a 40 minute queue as there was only 1 person processing all 100 odd riders. I was chatting to some of the other riders who were surprised to hear at 0800 we hadn’t yet had the bikes scruted??? “We have to go at 08.50 like it says in the time table, no”???? Apparently we should ignore this….. oh. So one of the Italians very kindly offered to sign us on and I went to get the bikes in the scrut queue which we obviously weren’t going to get through in the next 3 hours and our practice was in 1 hour. I also had to go and sort out getting my rear wet fitted and buy a front. With tyres sorted, I rejoined the bikes which had been bumped up the queue in front of all the guys along with rest of the EWC ladies to try and get us out for practice, I still had no race numbers on my bike because I still didn’t know what number I was. I’d been told that someone in the Italian championship (with whom we were sharing the grid) had my number 4, but hadn’t had my second choice number confirmed, once confirmed with the organisers (I had 4), I did a last minute run to the circuit shop and stuck my number 4 on whilst with the scrut, who checked erm… nothing?? A dash back to the van, squeeze into leathers saw us out on cold bikes and cold tyres. We are only allocated 2 practice sessions with the championship which are free (except we had to pay 120 euros each) and we both missed the first 5 minutes.
It was incredibly windy out on track, which has a big effect at Misano, there are two really fast right-handers which are made even more scary by the wind and turning into the start-finish straight was difficult as mid-corner, you come from behind the wall and the wind hits you and lifts the bike when you really need it to be down and going around the corner. All good fun :o)
After practice, we had a meeting with the organisers which sorted out a few queries and we were told we’d get a part refund for our free practice, this was due to a couple of the other riders really kicking of I think. Good on them, I’ve given up the fight and am just going with the flow mostly.
After a reasonably stressful day, I fitted new tyres for qualifying and did some training with my new chief pit crew, Mo Guiberteau. This was great as although she’s never done anything with bikes before, she is a chippy by trade and works as head of props for Cirque Du Soleil so is really hands on. She picked up everything really quickly and says it’s just like pre-set!!! (10 minutes to lizard) She did a great job.
At last it was time to relax and we joined the rest of the pit crew who had arrived that day. All newly nicked named Lala (Leila), Foofoo (Fiona) and soozoo (Susie) We had a nice dinner and an early night.
We’d battened down really well before turning in and even if it was windy on Friday night, I never noticed zzzzzzzz.
Qualifying
It appeared the day before that it was going to be quite difficult to find a clear lap as the field was very mixed. I was getting tows off some of the Italians as the line is still unclear on a few corners, I could see where I was losing out and was able to pick up a few lines. I qualified with a 1.54 which was a second quicker than I’d been here last time, but nowhere near where I wanted to be and I felt I had a lot more to come and wanted to try.
We were all pulled into Park Ferme afterwards, where everyone with a quickshifter and Sooz for a mystery reason, were asked to join the officials at the race office. Although it clearly states in the regulations that quickshifters are allowed, we were told that they may not be. So an hour and a half later, we were shown the regulation I had been shoving under their noses for the last hour which states the legality of their use. Thanks Sooz for printing it and bringing it over.
The second session did not go according to plan. I had lots of things I wanted to try but lap after lap didn’t. I gained another second, but I really wanted a lot more and knew how to get it, but still kept just putting in laps, same same. Frustrating!!!
Later that evening, I traded Paola Cazzola the Italian Champion and 2006 EWC1000 champion the use of my hairdryer, for a lap of the track on push bikes which I found really useful. She has an amazing passion for this sport and just listening to her talk about each corner is brilliant and inspiring.
We relaxed in the evening with a nice BBQ and had an early night with no wind. Unfortunately, a recurring shoulder problem raised its head after the first qualifying session and although I forget about it when I’m riding, it is really, really painful and I hardly got any sleep because of it.
Race day
Warm up was at 0900 and I went out for a Sunday drive half asleep, it was spitting with rain, although probably nothing of significance, I really took it easy. I went back to bed loaded with Brufen and got some needed sleep as the race wasn’t until 15.35.
I spent some time with the new pit crew as none of them had ever done a race start before, so we watched a few of the other race to see how it all happens.
Time to go racing.
I qualified 18th overall on the 5th row and was feeling quite confident; I always manage to find at least a second in the race from qualifying and lots of people qualified around the 1.52 mark. I know I can get a good start so the plan was to get away and get consistent. The first part of the plan happened. In fact that has got to be one of my best starts ever. I pulled off the line really strong with hardly any wheel lift and was pulling on everyone in front. I was gradually catching the bike directly in front and had my front level with her rear and she was drifting left which was pushing me out left, there was no way I was rolling off so I was out on the kerb. Then everyone seemed to brake really early as I went sailing down the kerb past. Although hard breaking out here was a bit bumpy, I could let off and got into turn 1 in about 8th I think, very pleased with myself. Now this is where I should have relaxed a bit and tried to get consistent, but the opposite happened. I knew I had a bunch of faster people behind me and I had seen I’d been quite strong on the brakes so I was trying to use braking to find my extra time. I think I was just trying too hard and was missing a lot and I mean a lot of apexes and was really struggling to get the bike out of the turns, I just couldn’t get the power down. In hindsight, I think I was braking too hard and losing my corner speed so was getting hammered for it. I spent most of the rest of the race getting taken coming out of turns and getting some of them back on the brakes at the next turn. I had someone ride into me out of the right hander on the back fast section. I was running wide coming out and she had got up the inside of me. I was already on the kerb and she came right next to me. We seemed to have straightened up for the straight, but she still came further left. The last time this happened to me, I had my handle bar taken out and woke in the med centre with no recollection of the last 2 years wondering why my ex-boyfriend wasn’t there (we’d split up 6 months earlier, bizarre). I stuck my elbow out and shoulder down and just our shoulders came together rather than bikes. I didn’t see her again after that. I’m pretty sure she didn’t come off from that incident as it was a minor coming together, but I did see a crashed Kawasaki in park ferme. I got the biggest cheer from the marshals on that corner when I came round on the cool down lap which was nice.
So although I’m disappointed with lap times and the result of 9th in class, I’ve learned a hell of a lot.
Thanks David for your help this weekend and for doing the pit board , but I knew for the first few laps it was going to be +0 so I was just getting my head down, then I couldn’t find you after that, sorry. Thanks Lala, foofoo and soozoo for being brilliant brolly dolly’s, great entertainment and for driving the rig back to the UK for its MOT and thank Mo for being the best pit biatch ever.
Like I said in my last race report, I’m trying not to dwell on the bad stuff this year, but learn from it. Moving on from here, for the bike, it will be going on the Dyno for its own mapping and for me it’s off to physio tonight and to race school in Assen for 2 days in May. There’s more fight in me yet.
29, 30 Mar 08 - First race of the season, Pannoniaring in Hungary
This will be short and sweet because I’ve forgotten most of it as it’s taken me a week to do this write up. It’s been a hectic time. I’ve been running around organising way too much to concentrate on any one thing, thank God it’s almost all over and I can get on with the season.
I’ve just had a fantastic weekend which was a reunion of the 2006 Feisty Race team for Radka and Bully’s wedding in the Czech Republic. It was just like the good old days and has reminded me what this racing malarkey is all about. Congrats to Radka and bully on their marriage, Kat and Chris on their rather large bump and Susie and David on the [snip - ED]. Love all you guys.
So, onto the riding. Hmmm I actually remember why I don’t like writing these things, especially when I feel it didn’t go so well. The opening day of the Yamaha R6 cup was scheduled for Monday, so I booked Susie and I on the Saturday and Sunday for a trackday weekend, with racing combined. Pannonia is a track I rode a fair bit last year and I was hoping to get down to the at least the same times I was doing last year.
It seems this was optimistic. I was doing 2.10s on Saturday, which I was pleased with. I hoped to find a lot more on Sunday as it was feeling like I could. There was a miscommunication (OK assumption by me) about tyres which left me lacking in them, so I took the opportunity to get happy with the rear spinning up, but I only found another second on Sunday, which left me quietly disappointed.
Although, as always, I am reasonably fit. That bike fitness you get only from riding on track was lacking, either that or I’m getting old. Sunday night saw me feeling very physically sorry for myself.
Monday arrived, Susie and David had left the evening before, and so I quite happily set up for the day by myself. I’ve done it a hundred times before so no problems. All competitors got together for a big photo shoot before the track opened with all 40 odd R6s lined up (all except mine because I still hadn’t received my blue fairing) It was a very impressive sight. I rushed off from this to get out in the 1st session still on the old rubber.
The very nice Dunlop people said I could have their display rear so I promptly got this fitted after the 1st session. I was having some problems with front-end judder, so was directed towards the suspension expert who changed my settings for the race. I’m definitely not suspension expert, but had been making minor adjustments from stock over the last few times out and I know enough to know major adjustment is a bad thing, but still for some reason went with a rear preload adjustment from 4 off to all the way off and compression damping from 14 off to 24 off.
I’d been doing 2.11s all day and managed 2.09 in the race, but I can honestly say, I’ve never had such extreme handling problems. Settings are now back to where I began Monday and we’ll see what happens in testing in Misano. I though I knew where I needed to go and had someone else from Yamaha confirm this after the race, so we’ll see.
It was a long way off the 2.06s I got down to last year, but I have promised myself I will not be beating myself up in the same way I did last year. Anyone that knows me I think will agree it was not a good year for me last year in this respect.
I hope to leave for Misano today (Tuesday) and make the most of the beach and some rest but will have to see how work goes. Either way, I am really looking forward to the first race.
14-16 March 08: Practice in Misano, Italy
The 800km journey to Misano from Vienna was quite uneventful, which is a novelty just lately. I was joined by bike journo and owner of www.ladyrace.net Katia, an Italian born, Austrian resident and fluent in Italian, German and English. Perfect company for an Italian track day organised by a German company.
We arrived after dark, so after a pizza stop (when in Misano), we set up camp. The bike was relegated to the paddock as my race truck is about the same size as me and any extra people get accommodated in the mechanics quarters, which is in the bike compartment. Bike out, airbed in. Apparently is quite cozy back there.
The Adriatico weather was perfect: bright and sunny, shorts and T-shirts weather. I was feeling pretty rested and really looking forward to playing on track. This was just another getting to know you day between me and my bike, and also getting my sadly lessened perception to speed back that I always lose in the winter. I feel I am arriving at corners way too fast then actually find I could get off and push by the time I get there. I didn't want to get caught up too much in pushing for times, the bike is still not mapped and fueling wasn't all that beautiful.
I had no idea what a good lap time looks like as the track has been changed again during the winter and in any case, I didn't take any times on Friday morning. Katia then informed me that I needed a transponder for grouping for the afternoon. I knew this would be helpful as there was a big scale of rider on this track day. I spent the day gradually knocking seconds off, getting the not so amusing anymore rearsets sorted out. A two-minute lap wa the best I could do. Not good…
Day 2
I found a couple of more seconds and had a bit of a battle with a cheeky Italian dude who was determined he was going to be quicker than me. Most of it in the paddock as he was passing us between his bike and the lap sheets, with various hand signals and I think Italian swear words.
Day 3.
After being up three times during the night, firstly for rain to put everything under cover, then for battening down the awning when the wind picked up, then for winding the awning in when the wind really got giddy with it. It was 4.30 in the morning and there were an awful lot of Italian dudes running round in their underpants trying to sort canvas out (Playing tents with boys, Deb? – ED).
I did a few of laps in the morning to check the wind situation, then went out for the ladies’ race which was a mix of us, street fighters, old dudes and a few others.
I was gridded four places behind Italian rider Milena Milani who was on her new ZX-6R. It was a rolling start and I was caught napping after the two warm-up laps as we'd all been slowed right down by the pace bike, then I missed the flag. Oops.
Still, no one came past.
I played follow-my-leader (I thought you were the pilot, not the navigator – ED) for a few laps, then remembered I was racing. I quickly began to pick off targets, (including cheeky chappy from yesterday) but I'd lost a whole heap of space from Milena who I could barely see at the start of the second to last lap, she was now the bike in front.
I managed to reign it all in and pull a dodgy pass out the back which saw me more screwed than she was and she passed me straight back, but I knew I could get her through the fast section. However, I got my intentions mixed up with my capabilities and screwed that up as well.
I tried on the last right but was a bit too hard and ended up with a bigger gap, but was on her back wheel for the line which, I have to say, I was disappointed in as I should have made and held the pass.
What I didn't realise was that the result was calculated on overall race time due to the rolling start, so I'd taken the win without being in front. My last lap was the fastest of the weekend, a 1.56, still not that good I don't think, but I'm a long way on from Pannonia last weekend and feel a lot happier than at this stage last year.
The air's a bit thin up here
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I have another three days at Pannonia in two weeks’ time before heading back to Misano for the first race of the season on the April 13. All in all, I am feeling happy and confident for the year.
Both EWC champions from 2007 we're there. Nina Prinz, who is racing in the German Superbike championship this year and Iris Ten Katen who's racing in the Dutch Supersport championship. Congratulations to both riders who are already proving that they really deserve the rides. Both were on fire, and I mean blazing.
There were also a couple of Russian ladies, Natasha Lubimova and Nadin Yakhnich, two of really very few Russian girls riding on the track. They will be representing Russia in the European Women's championship this year also, they both improved massively throughout the weekend.
It was also nice to see Magreet Zant again, with the trickest paint job in the paddock. She found a huge four seconds in the race off her lap times!
Last but by no means least, I really have to thank Katia for giving up her entire weekend to come Misano and help with everything. Really the best people to have with you helping are the people who've done it themselves, I get the feeling a little of the racing bug may have been transmitted though, just a teeny leap from trackdays ;o)
Until post-Pannonia
Ciao, Deb
9 Mar 08: First practice at Panonniaring, Hungary
Saturday was spent working all day on the bike fitting the race package that arrived that morning. It needed to be ready enough to take out at Misano next weekend, but I also wanted to take the bike out locally in case of any problems and the only time to do this was on Sunday at Pannoniaring, a fantastic circuit less than 2 hours from Vienna.
For the bike to be ready, it meant that Sepp, Otto and Christian from www.MPU.at would have to give up their entire Saturday, stripping and rebuilding the bike with all the parts (including pink hoses). I really didn’t think I would be riding on Sunday, but the guys are brilliant and give up their Saturday they did. The bike is all but sorted. Beer all round.
I arrived at Pannonia a lot later than planned so instead of trying to turn my ever so full van into living quarters as well as a garage, I opted for Mario’s Hotel which is inside the circuit, €40 for the night with breakfast. It was worth it alone just for the shower. Great night’s sleep.
It was a very relaxed start to the day; the new Dunlops were fitted while I was eating breakfast. Everything double-checked on the bike, all ready in plenty of time for my first session which was a slow pootle around. There were damp patches here and there and the day was about making sure all was OK with the bike. Only a few minor problems at slow pace, mainly lever positioning and an incompatible boot/rearset interface. The rearsets are very spangly and my boots have lots of outer amour with crevices which appear to be just the right size and in the right place for the heel plates to get stuck in. Quite a few times I went into corners with my left foot stuck in the air, no where near the gear lever. Gaffa tape is the temporary fix.
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There's nothing like hitting the apex. And this is nothing like...
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As the day the progressed I was picking up pace and the bike felt great. It has stock suspension as per the R6 cup rules. This will need to be stiffened up a bit, but more pace is needed yet. The fueling is way off right now as the kit ECU fitted on Saturday has not been mapped yet. I’ll be getting a new Remus can before Misano anyway as I’ll need a baffle, but in all, I felt very at home on the 2008 R6. Even without the mapping the delivery seems stronger than the 2006. It turns in much easier and holds the line on the way out much better than I remember my 2006 doing. I’ve not changed any suspension settings at all yet from stock. I had no problems with stability on the Dunlops either. I had problems on the 209s last year on the Pirelli settings. I like the way the bike turns much much more on the Dunlops and I’ve no where near found the grip limit. Awesome rubber.
So, new bike, new leathers, new rubber and new me and now the cobwebs are blown out, it’s down to business in Misano next weekend. Woo hoo.
27 Feb 08: And the season begins!
Not the best of starts; a 60 hour journey to Vienna due to a breakdown in Brussels, but I got there eventually. A big thanks to the Mercedes garage in Brussels, Mercedes Europa, for the huge discount on my bill and a very entertaining day. I'll be popping back in for a coffee when I'm next passing. Hopefully, I won't be on the back of a recovery truck.
So I eventually get the rig, which is my van and Sooz's new trailer into the secure parking on Tuesday evening. WOW is all I can say, It's a big heated lit garage where I can work away on my bike and van at leisure. The owner uncle Lu, is a racing fanatic, he has race bikes coming out of his ears and is the most helpful chap your ever likely to meet. He does like a clean van though ;o)
The race package for the cup doesn't arrive until mid March, which is Remus exhaust, kit ECU and loom, rear sets, brake hoses, steering damper, fairing etc. The only problem is, I'm testing in Misano mid March. So I went and stole my bike and made a start. The 2008 R6 is a fantastic looking bike, it felt really wrong stripping it without even 10 meters on the clock.
2008 R6 out of the box, yummy |
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I was hoping my European fairing (pink) would have arrived before the weekend, bearing in mind I tried to organise it to have it here for the Vienna bike show back in Feb. It's at the special Feisty pink sprayers, but due to a combination of strange postal activity and communication breakdowns, I live in hope that it will arrive today, Monday. I was working through the week to get it all sorted for Misano albeit it almost standard. I also hope to get a couple of days in at Pannonia before the Italian adventure.
Next stop, some R & R in Amsterdam this weekend. I think I'll catch a plane though!!
Feb 2008: Deb at Die Bike, Austria |
