Outfit play time suspended.

Walking the hill before practice is always encouraged, in fact strictly
speaking IIRC a requirement if you haven't competed on that course
before. Even the old lags usually do it. Often used as an opportunity to
wind up the competition with tall tales about braking points, gears and
lines.

The exception would be the 2.5 and 5 kilometre hills on Pahnd Island if
we ever got to ride them again. In that case we got lead up on a convoy
sighting run.
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As I said at the time, going by the times others have done on Nordwests
the limiting factor was the bike not you. I expected you to beat my best
Nordwest time there by a couple of seconds, which you did easily. On
more competitive machinery I would expect you to have been quicker still
by at least the same degree.

First round in the Green Ranger bar of the Hartland Quay on the Saturday
night is on him though.

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I suspect I might be coming out of retirement soon.

 

That's fine unless you drink pints of brandy.

 

There's a CBR600 here if you'd like to borrow that.

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Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

Thanks for the offer but I'll either try to blag a bike off Pete or
use my KTM. I might actually take the KTM anyway and have two chances
at avoiding coming last.

 

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:11:58 +0000, Pete Fisher

Hehehe. Well, I think I should be on the hill for most of next
season's events.

"Fail"?

 

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:33:04 +0000, Pete Fisher

Especially by the marshals, who need a laugh.

That said, I've watched people walk the course and *still* find parts
of it an "exciting surprise".

 

With my memory, that's a dead cert.