Aug 20 / 21 Biker Banter's Summer Track Bash at Snetterton!

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With just over a week to go, I thought I'd start up a separate thread for it rather than trawl through the general trackday one.

Who's going then? I'm currently booked in for both the Sat & Sun but made a concerted attempt to cut the top of my right thumb off yesterday so the only thing certain for me atm is drinking beer (carefully).



Reminder to Fleegle - don't forget to look for those 4XV wheels (and any other R1 spares you trip over) when dragging out ze Ninjas.

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Fleegle said:

Who else was going on this? If we can get 10 names together we can reserve a garage.

Half from memory & half checking the last 10 pages of trackday thread.

Fleegle - ZX10
Mitzy - ZX6
moto_traxport - R1 4XV
Richrox - R1 5VY
Snorky782 - S1000RR
Hebege - R1 5VY & ?no of mates (675 chap?)

All the above Sat & Sun

Birky41 - GSXR750Y - just the Sun?
Sebo - GSXR1000K4 couldn't find the post, one day or two
L9 ACP - n/a - Sat only
rat840771 - GSXR1000K7 - Sat only with a bunch of mates

Apologies if I've overlooked anyone. Feel free to correct!

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hebegb said:

moto_traxport said:

Fleegle said:

Who else was going on this? If we can get 10 names together we can reserve a garage.

Half from memory & half checking the last 10 pages of trackday thread.

Fleegle - ZX10
Mitzy - ZX6
moto_traxport - R1 4XV
Richrox - R1 5VY
Snorky782 - S1000RR
Hebege - R1 5VY & ?no of mates (675 chap?)

All the above Sat & Sun

Birky41 - GSXR750Y - just the Sun?
Sebo - GSXR1000K4 couldn't find the post, one day or two
L9 ACP - n/a - Sat only
rat840771 - GSXR1000K7 - Sat only with a bunch of mates

Apologies if I've overlooked anyone. Feel free to correct!

I'm on the old faithful S1000 still Jon, hard habit to break ( should be interesting to have rear rebound actually functional now - hoping for much improvement !)

Thought you had finally joined the R1 club - Pah!

I've already lined my excuse if you get past - sore thumb!!

How many 'extra' bodies can your extra buddies provide in addition to you and Simon? We need another 4 names to bump us up to 10 so Tony can lay claim to a garage.

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Are we there on a garage yet?

Fleegle said:

Novice place available for Sat and Sun. Any takers?

Mitzy still going? Procescco poisoning?

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Finally packed! Setting off in the middle of the night as per usual.

See you in the morning. No Limits better have their free coffee urn on!

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Fleegle said:

Had a great weekend especially as the weather held off for us

My only complaint is about people thinking they are better than they really are. There was at least a dozen people in the fast group yesterday that were out their depth. For safety's sake this really needs to be addressed before someone gets really hurt due to differences in closing speeds on corners. It may be up to the faster rider to take care when passing, but some of the lines taken yesterday by the inexperienced was asking for trouble. It's maybe time that all UK trackdays are timed by the TDO to ensure people are in the correct group. There's no shame in being in the Novices or the Inters group.....everyone has to start somewhere

Ditto on both points.

I had more near-misses with other riders in two days there than the last two years doing Euro trackdays.

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Biker's Nemesis said:

Seems to be a lot of moaning.

I have an idea, before you lot get on track you should all qualify for position in the 3 groups and then have transponders fitted so you can all be let out in the correct order of fastest first in your groups...

....fk it, have a race start to with maybe a little plastic cup for the first three too.

No moaning from me. At the time I actually enjoyed the near misses, the beer and the curry. It's only the next day when you contemplate the numbers.

Not only am I comparing a UK trackday to a European one which is perhaps unfair, it was a UK one on a weekend which I'm assured by UK trackday regulars draws a different crowd again.

Plastic cup you say?? ........ Now there's a thought!

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Fleegle said:

L9 ACP said:

Ohhh, did the other chap stay upright?

The naked bike managed to stay upright and suffered a bent exhaust, the other bike looked like someone had charged at it with a sledgehammer. The rider was okay though.....he took more of a beating on fb

I think the camera bike was a 04/05 ZX10, the now collectable C model. Nice ones just got a little rarer. I rode past the wreckage thinking "ooooofff!" as it lay at the side of the track (rider stood next to it obviously uninjured) and apparently as it was delivered back to the paddock the marshalls kept going back into the van for a few more armfuls of stuff.

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Biker's Nemesis said:

Not many pictures or stories of drunken going ons.

These sothern TD's sound like fun

What goes on off track stays off record!

Half the attendees were Norverners anyway which is (possibly)why we wandered from pub to pub looking for the 'perfect pint'.

I might have a look on Wileman's website for some shots when I get a mo sometime this weekend.

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Biker's Nemesis said:

Nice One Grahame. Get Simon to write his thoughts up then change you name in your quote to LoonR1 so it looks like he's still here.

Graham, if you find you are tripping over Snoon's old R1 and are keeping the Beemer for track stuff then please remember I am on the lookout for a 5VY R1. I was having to try quite hard at one point when something green & chuckling came past before thinking 'I'm not having that!' and extracting one's finger.

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hebegb said:

moto_traxport said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

Nice One Grahame. Get Simon to write his thoughts up then change you name in your quote to LoonR1 so it looks like he's still here.

Graham, if you find you are tripping over Snoon's old R1 and are keeping the Beemer for track stuff then please remember I am on the lookout for a 5VY R1. I was having to try quite hard at one point when something green & chuckling came past before thinking 'I'm not having that!' and extracting one's finger.

Will do Jon - I must say , prior to writing my report - the high point of the weekend and a truly entertaining 20 mins was the last session on Sat . , with you leading out for a good few laps , making progress on the guy in front , but Tony making steady incremental gains on you and then about 6 laps in , passing you , leading for a couple of laps and gaining on the guy ahead, you passing him back and both of you passing the other guy and totally smooth , steady and flowing from where we were watching .....which I know it wasn't according to Tony later - a few shapes being made here and there each - was ace !

It's the last time I admit the tyre is finished and request 'no funny business' off of Tony! It did ensure the first pint of the evening tasted good despite being Budweiser.

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curlie467 said:

Is it a track bike you are after mototraxport?

If so then my mates is for sale, very capable machine!

Roadie bike or a a trackday bike with a V5 either way suits me. If you want to PM me some details I'm all ears.

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Biker's Nemesis said:

moto_traxport said:

What goes on off track stays off record!

Half the attendees were Norverners anyway which is (possibly)why we wandered from pub to pub looking for the 'perfect pint'.

I might have a look on Wileman's website for some shots when I get a mo sometime this weekend.

Champion.

Fwightening Fweegle chasing me on his nasty Ninja.



running away from Snetterton's scary tree.

Edited by moto_traxport on Monday 29th August 21:30