(Reposted due to a misunderstanding!)
Me & my two lads Dave (Stacky) & Roo used to be members of the Low Capacity Road Racing Club, running GP70's
on short circuits which was brilliant fun, we all had Jawas then upgraded to Contis which were superb and got us a few plastic trophies.
I kept a dyno printout somewhere showing 26bhp from a 70cc 2-stroke! Roo was once Brit GP70 champ, think it was 2007.
The lads are a real treat to watch, they've been riding and competing together for so many years they have a shared 6th sense and can freight-train as one, lap after lap after lap, inches apart... somehow elegant yet manic...
When the lads were young I was working 12/7/365 to make ends meet and I missed some of their early teens, and I'm so grateful that I've been able to make up for lost time and since then we've been inseparable, all bike mad
We've been TRF members too (Trail Riders Fellowship), we used to go out for a full day riding trails, maybe 100 miles, but trail riding is difficult these days:
Since then its been all track days (this is taken by my eldest lad Dave with a GoPro following me on the Storm @
The poor, long-suffering Storm, suitably bedecked... "my name is Phil, and I'm a trackaholic..."
Current roadie is a 'back to me yoof' Enfield Continental GT, just sold my Gixxer6 track bike to fund alloys for the campervan!
The Firestorm in the avatar and the video above, I've since passed on to Dave, he commutes every day on it. Between us we've done 40,000 on it.
Roo has a Trumpet Stripple, DIL has an SV650 & my dear late wife had a Piaggio scooter. She was a great pillion, you wouldnt know she was there.
We've always been a biking family. The lads are now racing Pitbikes in the televised Minibike series. I fancied it but no, I feel too old now and its too rough & tumble out there...
Cheers
Phil
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New addition to the Ratty fold..
Note the letter R, it happens to be very significant
My new Panzerwagen....
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Almost as big as the T6..My new Panzerwagen....
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Almost as big as the T6..
^Nice collection.
I'd imagine that racing a CB500 basically comes down to not applying the brakes unless absolutely necessary and carrying every last fraction of corner speed.
Sounds great fun.
Absolutely lovely collection. Those Triumph triples are lovely engines, I guess that is why they are going to be the stock supplied engine for Moto2 next year. I’d love to have a street triple, which is ultimately the Daytona, but naked.Here's my current bikes below.......
First is my Triumph Daytona 675 SE which is my Road Bike
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Next is my Honda C90 which I use for both Road Riding and Endurance Racing (Plop Enduro, Moped Mayhem e.t.c)
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Next is my Kawasaki ZX6R which is my Track Day Bike for a bit of fun
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Finally is my Honda CB500 Race Bike (Cal Crutchlow Replica-ish) that I race with Thundersport
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You can probably tell I kind of like my bikes a lot
Absolutely lovely collection. Those Triumph triples are lovely engines, I guess that is why they are going to be the stock supplied engine for Moto2 next year. I’d love to have a street triple, which is ultimately the Daytona, but naked.
Great number for the track there; RIP SIC.
Every track day I did on the CB, people would blast past on the straights (its only 50bhp) and I’d be all over them and pass them in the corners until they came past again on the next straight. Hence me getting the ZX6 for some trackday fun....