Outfit play time suspended.

The UKRM sidecar hill climb team project has foundered. The Welsh
Hillclimb championship winning outfit has been sold. Sounds like it was
only stuck on Ebay as a classified as a back up for local grapevine
advertising.

Ears should still be kept to the ground and eyes peeled for something
similar.

Still no excuses for debutante uphill racers not to present themselves
with suitable solo machinery at Hartland Quay in early April. Date to be
confirmed after the NHCA AGM this Saturday.


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"uphill racers"?! I thought we had plenty of those already.

 

It wasn't intended to be a euphemism.

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Dustbin fairings legal?

 

Hoh yus. Also methanol fuel (or have the ACU killjoys changed that
yet?).
E85 certainly is.

Loan of a Nordwest might be arranged for a deserving case ICBA to
prepare it (mainly needs the front calipers freeing off after the
reverse ski run that was hartland last April).

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Wot about licences?

 

You can also fit a supercharger if you want.

Day licence and membership available for Hartland under the "Give it a
Go" scheme. Clothing and helmet requirements as previously discussed.


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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:12:43 +0000, Pete Fisher

Well FFS what's the point in me learning how to put them out then!

 

All is not lost, hope springs eternal. In any case, you are more than
welcome to extinguish the flames from my solo should it threaten self
immolation at Pardon.

<awaits results of UKRM innuendo parser>

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I'm sure you can still put them out for the boys.

 

<fidgets distractedly>

How strict are the scroots?

<note to self: excremental integration, stat>

 

Fairly, when it comes to the basics like brakes that work, twist grips
that snap shut and large components in danger of falling off. Reasonably
relaxed about the minutiae of shark tooth sprocket guards and precision
specification of racing numbers.

Eh? Was that meant to read extrication?

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Translation: "getting ones shit together".

 

Translation: "getting ones shit together".
[/QUOTE]

I see it now. Very positive. Hartland looks like being April 5th, so if
I am going to do it again this year I have to leave for the Easter hols
late rather than coming back from them early. A very long range weather
forecast would be invaluable.

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Hmmm. Something to aim for. Based on my performance to date on any project
I've ever embarked on, don't hold your breath...

 

I see it now. Very positive. Hartland looks like being April 5th, so if
I am going to do it again this year I have to leave for the Easter hols
late rather than coming back from them early. A very long range weather
forecast would be invaluable.[/QUOTE]

I'll try to get a sneak preview of power station outages I'm supposed
to be attending and see if I can get a couple of days off. The only
problem is that it's a **** of a long way to ride there on the KTM and
I'm certainly not going to try using the 10R on a hill climb.

 

See comment re possible availability of a Nordwest. Champ pronounced it
not too bad a bike to ride, although not competitive.


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Ha, like I'd be able to do justice to anything competitive. If nobody
else grabs a ride on it and I'm not working we'll have to talk about
the idea.

 

As it is a two batch per run meeting, I was thinking of taking it as
well as the Morini anyway, as I did last year. I went surprisingly well
on it.

So a shared ride might even be possible. I'll get stuck in to fettling
the front brakes. Not that you really need them anywhere but after the
finish.

BTW, someone has been posting old magazine articles about hill climbs on
the NHCA forum. There is one reporting the September 1980 Wiscombe event
and mentioning my original Morini. The chap who posted it was also
riding on the day and still had all the times. Seems that from 1980 to
2008 I have slowed down by about a second there (a factor of
approximately 2%) , on a Morini at least. I blame the still not fully
sorted ignition, and missed gear changes resulting from modern Sidi
Vertebra boots combined with not perfectly adjusted Tarozzi rearsets,
and 28 years of wear and tear (on the rider).

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Out of curiosity, what actually happens at a hill climb? does one get
to ride or walk the course first, or is it all an exciting surprise?