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Some tracks you can ride with no licence.
Mallory/ Anglesey/croft any track that msv don't own.
No limits have a minimum cc limit, so unless you race and rs125 you will need 300cc minimum.
Acu will cost you about £300 all in. Then £48 a year to renew.
All msv tracks (caddy/oulton/donny/brands/bedford/snet) need a unristricted licence or acu.
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Nothings been announced as far as I can find? Just that McPint is keen on signing for them.
nothing set in stone yet, also linked with tyco bmw or Kawasaki...so all just rumours at the mo
Its been announced now, JM to ride the norton
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Just a heads up but it looks like this will not be happening.
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You could book a JW training day and hire a bike with loads more track time.
Or just hire a bike £240 (all fuel/tyre warmers and a pit man) and book a trackday and fill your boots.
ooh the JW ones have free tea and coffee..... don't really want to use my bike the first time I try it though
The price to hire a newish honda/suzuki with smallboy hire was £240 last year.
Thats all in, tyres/fuel/tea and coffee a bloke to put the bike in the stands and fit warmers/rain tyres and he changes the wheels.
If you crash and snap a lever you pay for the lever, write the bike off into millions of tiny bits and it cost you a max of £500.
But the chances of crashing your own bike is slim.
Ive been doing it since mid 2014 now and only crashed 7ish times and 5 of them was this year
Safer then niping to the shops
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JEALOUS
Tbh and in my opinion its just a taster to track riding.
Its expensive aswell.
The only advantage is that you can drive there in a car with nothing and use there bikes and kit.
You could book a JW training day and hire a bike with loads more track time.
Or just hire a bike £240 (all fuel/tyre warmers and a pit man) and book a trackday and fill your boots.
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Thanks for all the responses guys, appreciated, I'll work on all of them (I.E. Target fixation and going out to do some basic practice on the bike)
Slow control doesn't really seem to be my issue, I can do slow control no problem, it's turning corners at speed that I seem to struggle on, I feel like I want to go into it but I get nervous about going over too much and coming off and then I back off causing the problem. I feel like it's mostly the shit weather we're having at the moment, it's rarely dry and the roads are mostly damp which is where I've always gotten a bit more nervous, I know riding in the rain you have to be a bit more cautious, but I'm getting afraid about even turning into things and having the bike at an angle when I turn. (For reference, as the type of bike probably makes a difference, I have a sporty naked bike with clip ons)
I have been watching "A twist of the wrist" as I was recommended it, one thing that did stick with me was pushing into my turns (I.E. Push right to turn right, push left to turn left) and that's been helping me with my turns, I think I'm probably just getting a bit nervous over turns and that's causing the issue.
Its only because your shitting yourself about comming off the bike, as you enter the corner your brain is asking loads of questions, to fast? Is it damp? Is there gravel? Will i hit the kerb and as a result you slow down.
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Take it like a man, your upright and unless someone had spread a ton bag of gravel out the tyre would of stuck.
Iirc theres a line/he stands there so you know you have to stop before it/him. Just pull it progressivly.
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Does this make me an idiot ?
Do you wear lycra?
Do you block traffic?
Do you take the law in to your own hands?
Are you a knob?
if the answer is yes to all then I'm afraid to say yes you are
i wear lycra, under my trackies. Im also a knob 
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Hopefully this gets followed through
one of the most dangerous roads in hull and dickwads decide to ride a push hogg down it
PS: sorry about the shit advert ridden news site! an ad blocker works wonders
Some times il cycle down the slip road at welton to get onto the path that runs next to the A63. Now not alot makes me nervous but even though theres the width of the slip road between me and the HGV its really un nerving.
Why anyone would want to cycle right next to a HGV doing 55+ and its tyres are the same hight as your head is beyond stupid.
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He will be on it
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Last years Honda's sounded like death traps to be honest, both riders off, both vast experience of road racing.
I'd like to see him sit on the Tyco BMW.
First l want to see him fit and well, then if he really wants to ride a big bike, for me it's got to be the Norton
You got your wish. He has signed for norton.
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Has anyone actually tried to destroy a crash helmet ? I have , many times. When I worked in a bike shop and we were bored on a rainy afternoon we would often try to smash old helmets that customers had asked us to throw away . I don't think we ever succeeded in cracking open a single shell . I seem to recall that the cheaper and nastier the helmet , the harder it was to damage. My favourite method was to swing them by the strap and whack them on the corner of a skip as hard as possible. So what you pay for is mainly the quality of the interior and the shock absorbing properties of the materials. In the light of this I personally wouldn't be too worried about dropping a helmet from a few feet. Incidentally, the only helmet I have ever seen smashed open was an Arai Doohan replica. The wearer survived a high speed track day collision with another bike, well at least their head did .
Ive seen a twice crashed helmet split.
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When you can get a decent lid for £150 why would you even risk it?
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Life is the longest thing you will ever do
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Another year over.
Had a bimble round caddy the other weekend putting a few 1:39s in then to donny and smashed the bike up down craner curves
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Just get it from someone selling it on facebook.
I had a box with sky and bt that i paid £100. Lasted 2 years before it went off.
Ive now got sky and bt for £45 a year.
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Dosn't matter what way you lean. It has little effect on steering.
Only have to look at mx.
Bikes laid on its side and there upright.
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Scam
in General Chat
I have fun with the ones who call up to "talk about my recent accident as they can get me a significant payout"
I let them speak, then when they ask "were you injured" I say "oh yes, very seriously". This gets them excited and they blurt out a load of other nonsense before finally asking "what was the nature of your injuries?" To which I reply, " oh well it's very sad, they took me to hospital, thought I would be ok but then sadly I died"... Then I either just go silent, or play along some more to see how much longer they want to waste talking to a dead person.
Thats what i say,
Yes, i died.
Oh im sorry to hear that.
Then they click and they put the phone down
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Had 3 or 4 this year
Bad man!
Got me hook line and sinker.
I'm on a cocktail of drugs at the moment, my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
I fell off again.
Caught on camera aswell
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Slightly off line, wets not fully up to temp.
Bit more lean to compensate and lost the front.
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I know im late but most oem springs are for a sub 80kg rider.
Normally between 68 and 75kg.
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I was at cadwell tuesday/wednesday.
It was a wash out, it was mint
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Is it a new bike / old bike
Possibilities
Check front forks for seal leakage
Check front suspension settings match each other
Fork oil levels mismatched
Fork internals damaged
Forks not level in the yokes
It may be a bent fork stanchion not returning fully
Brakes may be binding on one side
Bearing may be seizing on one side
It may be all in your mind
It may be that particular stretch of road
Its all on one axle.
If you have dropped it take the front wheel off and then loosen the pinch bolts on the yokes.
Then tighten them back up
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Rockingham.
Between the last round at mallory park and this round ive had my bike remaped and it has made a huge difference.
Set of to Rockingham on thursday night to a packed paddock, after setting up in the worse place possible on the grass and in the wind things was looking bleak.
Struggling alone with everything just makes the racing that much harder and stressful.
Helped another racer set up his awning on his big truck and asked if i could set up in it with him and he was more then happy to help me.
Testing was friday afternoon, id already done a trackday a couple of weeks previous so id sorted out my gearing and settings.
That took some pressure off and ment i could just concentrate on riding around and getting some laps in.
Qualifying.
The weather was good and i quite like Rockingham, its a Marmite track some love it and some hate it.
I got my head down and got some laps in
This is where the remap has worked wonders.
I didn't loose everyone on corner exit like normal so it put me in a better position to pass on the brakes.
That ment i wasn't getting held up by slower riders and i was sticking with riders that would normally leave me.
I qualified 16th, only 3 seconds from 1st place and 5th in class.
Looking back at the last rounds ive jumped up the grid along way.
Brands hatch 42nd
Donington park 42nd
Snetterton 35th
Cadwell park 23rd
Mallory park 33rd
The difference the remap has made is huge
Race 1
I finished 4th in class and 18th on the grid, id gone backwards.
I loose out on the 1st corner trying not to get knocked off.
42 bikes all fighting for 2ft of tarmac and it gets hetic
Race 2
I was going well, passed another bike coming into a chicane up the inside, had to scrub all my speed off to make the corner and he passed me on the exit.
The next lap he left a huge gap on the outside and i knew he would brake early then me.
I went for the gap on the outside and just as i got along side he moved over and my bars rode up his fairing, that sent the bike into a small tank slapper and i couldn't make the corner.
Ended up stuck in the gravel, took a while to push it out and i dropped back to 33rd and 9th in class.
Race 1 sunday
Woke up to a damp but drying track.
Set of for race one but at the 2nd corner a couple of bikes collided and we was red flagged and held for a while.
I turned the bike off because the temp was getting high.
We was sent to the grid and stopped again.
The temp was reaching 100°c so i turned the bike off again.
We got the signal to start engines and the bike wouldn't start.
I tried for aslong as i could, saw the lights come on so stuck my hands in the air.
After everyone had set off for the warm up lap i got bump started of the line.
Lined up on the grid again but my head had gone.
I couldn't string a lap together, never got near an apex.
bought it home in 33rd, 5th in class but 6th was only .4 of a second behind.
Race 2
Just as we got to the holding area the heavens opened, everyone was sent back for 10min to change to wet tyres.
Lucky i had a friend to help and he got them swapped in time.
Lined up on the grid and off we went, i like the wet and quickly realised that most people didn't
Quickly picked of riders and got in front of the freshman who had beat me in the 3 previous races.
We got a bike between us and i tried to open a gap.
Come into a corner and just lost the front.
In hindsight the tyres could of done with another lap to come up to full temp but i got carried away.
The bike hit the grass and flipped.
Despite that i had a good meeting.
The bikes better, i had bags of confidence over the weekend.
I wont be at round 7, i just can't afford the tyre bill so il be racing at darley moor on the 13th of august and then back to thundersport for round 8.
Id like to thank a few people.
Alex laurys for letting me set up with him
Nick pryke for helping and getting me out in the 2nd race.
Paul @ Black&White bikes
And my club 30 members and supporters
Help fried Suzuki!!!!!!!
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Imo your brother shouldn't be paying anything for doing you a favour.
Dont be a w**ker and take it on the chin.
If he turned the key and it never started then it was broken to begin with.
Probaly runing total loss and you had just made it home.