Thanks Ribbo, Husky Pete and Shoey for a great day up there ...
(I gather second day was even better!)
CRANKY 400s
If anyone needs a killer boot to quickspin kickstart a stubborn bigbore, just call on that big bloke Ribbo. I was amazed ....
NO CLUTCH
Thanks Pete for allowing me a window on the auto experience ... it was cool. Really nice bike indeed. Very Pelle!
MID-ENGINES
Thanks Rob for bringing the PE too. It loves to have a chat (ter) when rear-braking. Drakey says it was the weapon of choice at Rockley.
TRACK TIME
Ribbo's Rockley, where you do seven kilometres of tight, white dirt, right-angled, 1st gear turns under trees, come up onto the hill of cyclone-wrecked water tanks ... and head into the fifth gear, big-bore grasstrack.
How bloody tricky tight was the last corner of grasstrack down the bottom there! Final hi-speed run heads you into the frame cemetery. Back to tight turns, and then drop down into the pits.
As a non-Rockler, I was confounded by the tight stuff in morning (How do we do this?!) - and preferring the smaller grasstrack at very beginning past cattle gate entry, and the main grass track over out back.
But by mid-arvo, I kinda got the swing of it ... and was laughing out loud, riding the tight tree bends. I was liking it more than the grasstrack.
PILOTS
The IT crowd was on-hand and circulating in tight formations.
Steve Baker did his Harrow thing and rode flat-out all day.
Somehow Drakeford managed to find THREE different PE rides. (How un-CZ was that)
Ken brought the new-as jem of a Hodaka out from the coast.
Playing cards were dealt ... I think one guy even got three "2"s!
On a sour note, I caught one bastard trying to double straight back onto the grasstrack and ride it twice ... but I put him straight. He had a black helmet and Gasit top. Ribbo and I know who you are!
Top day ... many thanks to all
