The secret couples TD @ Brands - SAT 21st Feb

I had to book a novice place.

I hope I can move.

Dont worry they will put me down to novice after first session. You can have my place in fast group.

In fact if photographer is there you can borrow my bike, leathers and lid also. Then I might get some decent pictures for once.

Any ideas how I will get all the baby oil out of the inside of my leathers after though? See, it is dirty work being a pervert

Has anyone panned to get in the same garage? I will be there just after 7.

Bloody hell you're eager beavers aren't you? 7AM???? On a Saturday???

Keep us a spare slot in the garage chaps - Promise not to bum you while you're not looking

Have fun guys. And take some pictures to us who aren't coming along.

Lets think, it did the first time I had sex. Err...........and the second. And Ive only done it twice so yeah, I guess that is always.

Never really thought of premature ejeculation as a problem for men anyway.

Surely, once you have done all the lying to them and the being nice to them and the grovelling and the guilt trip and the endless foreplay....
Once you actually get to the poke in the whiskers stage then surely, the sooner it is over with the better. You may even get back to the bar before last orders.

It is in our genes. Back in caveman days Fred would impregnate Wilma as quick as he could to get next door and have a go on Betty before Barney gets home.

It is only women and that tantric twat, Sting, that have a problem with this.

My main problem is that, because of my winning personality, I am as attractive to women as a cervical smear test. Now Freestyler could help here by lending me his Leopard skin skate shoes - but he wont

So I have to use reverse psychology to get my end away. If my missus should have a small mishap with the car I dont shout or moan. I simply mention she now owes me two shags.

Fortunately, she is a crap driver so I am sorted for Xmas and my birthday for the next two years at least.

What a great day!

I hope Schnauzer's wrist is OK. Get well soon fella!

Great to meet some superduke riders. Big Toby taught me a neat trick with a water bottle! He even tried his best to give me his credit card. Toby, when your next bill has a £400 purchase from House Of Harlot, don't fret - Ms Fernandez needed a new catsuit!

That was the fastest Fast group I've seen for quite a while! I think Luke and I were the only road bikes out there!

How great was that weather?

I know you are all jealous of my funky wheels, but I'm afraid you'll need to find your own colour!

Yeah it was bloody brilliant - That hanging of malarkey is a killer though, hour and a half in the bath and my legs are still aching! Thats the problem with being a top athlete

Schnauser, great to met you, gutted for you about the bike but well chuffed you have it on video......won't steal too much of your thunder - Get posting (I appreciate it might take a while with one functioning hand!)

Andy, nice to meet you mate, hope your day ended without any dramas!

StupidLuke.......most great riders have female groupies.....you had one bird, three forty something old fellas and your grandad - Rock 'n' Roll! Was good to meet some of your chums and cheers for the company and the fuel, both were much appreciated!

DucatiPete - If any of you out there wondered what had happened to kermit the frog.....an RTA didn't go well for the little green fella and he's now all over Pete's wheels. Still, you're a damned sight faster than me fella - I'll take the piss more when I can keep up

Few pictures to follow - When I can be arsed!

Best biking day of the year so far - Loved it!

What a day perfect weather it was more like april, nice to meet toby, pete , luke and schnauzer i hope your not to stiff in the morning.


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It was a shame that Harry Monk and Shade couldn't be there.

I think we will have a few more days out this year!

Toby, I will ache like fook tomorrow. I'm pretty fit but it's hard to be bike fit unless you ride fairly often.

He wasnt really my grandad.

I just call him that since I caught him shagging my nan




No real harm done, she had been dead ten years

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Get well soon mate!

I ache like a bastard today too!

Ah yeah, I met him too - Told me how good he was in the first few sentences

Sorry to hear he fell off, but not crying

I meant Alan - the guy with the "special track day" stopwatch.

Without a doubt clearways is the hardest part of that circuit to master. From the moment you turn the bike left from surtees it's difficult to do well.
It's the only part of the track where the surface is flawed, there are changes of camber, and you're trying to get on the gas for the straight.
It's crucial to a good lap time, and, I must admit it's my weekest corner on the indie circuit.

I actually think it's one of the trickiest sections of any track I've ridden.

I was talking to Sam Middlemass last night who did national Jnr superstocks last year (in the BSB paddock.) He did 49.7 'round there on a Triumph 675, using a pretty radical line through clearways. Mid season he changed to a R6 and found that line didn't work very well!

I hope everybody is OK.......

I think the cause was a little too much throttle. You can hear the rear spinning up!

I've crashed there on a 250, it's seldom painless if you come off at clearways.

Yeah, I Hope your ok!! wondering how the GBRacing cover held out,

the tarmac looked rough so did the clutch cover live through it?...

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Pete and I are in the fast group red / orange bikes
Toby is in inters red / orange bikes
Andy and Schnauzer are in novice black / silver bikes.

Other bikes of interest were a Bayliss rep 1098R in novice / multicoloured bikes photo ref 3139. Those things are 27 grand in Uk sterling so no credit crunch for him

There was a very fast RC8 with a plain white fairing in inters / white bikes photo ref 1158. Could be someone to watch in the race series.

Michael Neeves from MCN was also there in fast / red bike (no 5). He had plain black leathers on until the sun came out and then put on his flash MCN ones - great big tart

Check out those wheels!

I like this one too!

I liked those of yours too. And the ones where we were both about to fall into paddock hill.

How did you get them on here? You must have on of those bucket things

Here you are luke seeing as you havnt got a bucket,

I love all Superdukes, even boring grey ones. But when you see photos that orange frame has extra bling

Jules.....oh man....O U C H !!!!! That really hurts to watch it....it makes such a difference when you know the person in the clip and know the bike. I really feel for you mate, hope you recover physically and mentally too mate....it must be tough to get back in the saddle after an offlike that.

Do you think it was cold rubber/too much gas/something else that was thre major factor?

Have to say, I'm impressed with your knee down until that point tho...I didnt get a knee even close whenI was there....I know I've only ever done 3 sessions there but I hope to ge my corner speed/smoothness up when I return.

Kudos for posting that video clip mate!!

Need.........


........more..........



.......practice!





Please critique my form gents - I won't get better without advice! Need to get that knee to the floor so I have a reliable gauge of how far over I am when cornering - Then I can start to concentrate on getting faster![/url]

I agree, knee down is just "one thing to do". The ones that really can ride, they ride smooth as the a summers breeze, but fast as f**k! In fact, they're riding so smoothly it almost looks boring.

I'll be around at a trackday this year. Or that's the plan anyway.

Thanks Joker, shows what watching hours and hours of motogp and wsbk can do ...

Also BigT, if you're quite inflexible, then the advice I got from a regional racer might help; he was following me for a whole session (unknown to me) and picked it up immediately, told me to "hang off till you feel like an idiot, that will be correct".

I tried it, felt terrible, but I got my knee down instead of the pegs and my corner speed went up . Since then, I've seen some video footage of me hanging off like an idiot (or so it felt), and it does actually look correct.
Not very comfortable, but (for me) the best way round a corner...