Spent all day Saturday at the Barry Sheene and had a pretty good time. I ran into Firko, Jonesy and Yamaboy and had an enjoyable lunch at the Cricketers Arms English pub up the road from the track. After lunch we caught up with Jonothan Houston (Club Wog, Aspes etc) and his new Motobi 250 racer, Mick Hockley and his 350 TZ (left the Maico at home). Had a good yarn with Robbie Phillis whose girlfriend Christine is an old "mate" of Jonesys and discovered that Kork Ballington has some mutual mates back in South Africa and Qld.
The Saturday lunchtime demo by Graeme Crosby on the Moriwaki Suzuki and Kork on the works Kawa was a bit underdone as Kork was obviously uncomfortable on the Kawa which was running a bit iffy. Croz was just Croz and flew off leaving Ballington and the coughing and farting Kawa way behind.
All in all it was a pretty good event but was spoiled a bit by the Bonanza being on the same day. What were MA thinking?? After it was over we went back to the Cricketers Arms and Jonesy rank some mates who'd gone to the Bonanza and heard that we were missing a great time. Hopefully next year the finances will be better and MA and the Barry Sheene organisers can sort out their differences and run on seperate weekends. The sport's too small to run biggys against each other on the same weekend.
Went to the Show on Sunday to keep the family happy and to top up my Bertie Beetle stash. Unbelievably, ran into Jonesy and his family again! We avoided the bar this time but we did all sit and compare showbags over a bad Capachino!
Get well soon Gator. It's crook enough crashing while you're racing but even more tragic doing it in a FUN event.
