Just to say a big thanks to everyone for making TA5 a great day.Organisers people in orange ,riders, spectators and the weather man.
My first DSC event and first trackday of the year! [doh]
180 mile ride down was intresting.Thanks to the guy on the Guzzi for showing me how to maintain a healthy average on the M25.I,m sure it was all legal.
Arrived just in time for first inters group so thanks for processing me so fast.
Big shout to the guys in pit 25 for making me so welcome,Scott[get well soon 748] Richard and 996 chap and friends,and yellow 748 chap next door.Supersports rule,get another!
Cracking track or what, no room for a breather and no long straights which is good on a SS.
Special thanks to the instructors:Chris for telling me i was leaving lines out of 2 corners[not sure about that one thought it was Kate Moss].And i thought it was a rollocking coming.Will work on the good advice.Also i think Yeti,fast next time if theres no straights.To the chap on the 999R at the end of the day
your comments made my day complete.The cheques in the post.
160 mile on the way home[didn,t get lost this time] and home for 8 oclock.

Best bike day ever. Thanks again

Andrew Red 900SS.

Hi Griff 64, feeling much better today, the first day without a head-ache. The 748 is looking a little battered with the fairing and tank off but nothing that can't be sorted with E-BAY. Glad you managed to get home safely after all day on the track and hopefully see you again, fully repaired next time. Cheers Scott

It was the watchdog crew,they were doing a piece on spoilt rich barstewards skiveing off work!!!!:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Butch

The question of the BBC crew is now the subject of ongoing formal discussions between the Club and MSV.

Accordingly I would ask you to refrain from any further comments on the message board please

Thanks Eric I thought your sps was sweet too, but it was definately a metalic scraping noise that I heard, I though my chain or something or other was hanging off

I had a good day out although had to be careful on the throttle in the end cos the Michelin rear was triangular on the right hand side...

Seeing Nelly with such a grin, shaving off a second at every session was quite cool as well.

I think that the policing of the groups appeared well done. It is always tricky at trackdays. I have been at previous DSC TD where there was some slow guys in fast and this time the group was well balanced.

Believe me if you get scared by some guys overtaking you fast, it is a hell a lot more scary when you hammer it at the end of a straight just to realise that the guy in front brakes 50m earlier than you when you did not expect it! The reference should not necessarily be the slowest rider. Pushing too many novice into inters and inters into fast could actually create quite dangerous situations in other groups as well.

I have no idea about the lap times. If somebody checked me out or somebody I was scraping with had their lap taken I would be curious to know (Ducati 916 with Joe Bar stickers - slow in the straight, fast in Surtees). I think that I may have broken the 55sec barrier just about.

p

Its all been said already, but this is principally for Ruth's benefit as I stand accused of never posting (hey, about 8 in 5yrs is pretty productive, isn't it?), really great day, & having ridden in Novices for all 7 sessions, thought it was generally very well policed & whilst the odd mistake was ocasionally made, with apologies invariably offered, feel there is little justification in anybody thinking otherwise....anyway, isn't overtaking allowed?....the few really fast guys soon got disappeared, the slower were given, from everything I saw, lots of TLC by instructors & other riders AND, to my amazement (having done about 5/6 days previously at Brands & always suffered from sometimes multiple red flag stoppages), NOBODY hit the dirt in Novices all day - speaks for itself...when does that ever happen??

...so well done & big thanks to Monty, Chris B, Lizzie, the Marshalls, the instructors & all others involved with running what was a really successful day (although maybe not financially for DSC?!).

Webby - as they say, catch you next time?

Dave the chap on that rather quick Bennelli TNT has asked me to thank everyone at the D.S.C for TA5.I know that he has done a track day before,but felt a lot less intimidated than before as the company was frankly friendly.I have to say that his putt putt has awesome drive out of corners and the sound track is fantastic.
He has also asked me to say that he was quicker than me on the R1 and that this almost evens the score!!!!(i outdraged his tricked up R.S.V.R.mille down the strip on my 748R and outdraged his TNT on the R1)Does that hurt???
Yep.

But,i was the chap with the L plates.

Well Helloooooo!

See, it's so easy and painless to post on the message board and as a member of some 5 years, present at the Fox's cafe meet last Sunday, your voice/input is worth presenting on this forum. At least, that's what I think.

Those of us that regularly post feel we get to know each other better through this medium. It's up to you of course and there are lots of great members out there who think the DSC message board is a bit of a waste of time. Horses for courses, I suppose. :D

[Edited on 7-10-2005 by Redruth]

I agree with everyone who has commented that the novice group at TA5 was well run and I personally did not have a problem with the wide range of ability which was shown. The comments I reported were from two riders in that group who were attending their first trackday.

Both have now said they'll have another go and most probably at a DSC event. All's well that ends well.

In your dreams Richard!!!:D:P:cool:

Excellent news Henners, if they are doing a DSC day, I promise to help them in any way I can.

John if they wanted to go grass tracking they would have gone off road rinding:D:P:lol:

P,

Were you in the fast group on a red bike with white helmet?

If so, you were quicker than me.

R X

This is Phillipe ......

Only 57sec for me, I was getting mugged by lodes of people.
best view in the house of the quick boys though and still getting
past the odd straggler.

:P



slow but better looking :D

[Edited on 9-10-2005 by ericthered40]

Anyone happen to know what this guys times were:D

[Edited on 10-10-2005 by Jon]

[Edited on 10-10-2005 by Jon]

here is me

I think he was circulating in around 1:15's

:D

i dont know specificaly but i would say about 57-58,
from what i observed

Jon....I'd agree with that. I had a go on Tonio's DD bike (1st time) & managed to keep you in my sights. My lap times on the DD bike were 57-58 secs (as I was desparate not to crash it so close to the Cadwell race, despite very nearly being taken out by the guy with 748 painted on his lid at paddock. He did say sorry though!).



[Edited on 10-10-2005 by Wylie1]

Bout an hour I thought, sure I saw him still finishing a lap when the novices went out...:lol:

Whilst we're posting some piccies of the day, here's me on my own bike:-

[Edited on 10-10-2005 by Wylie1]

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From what I saw & know of my own lap times, I reckon you got under 55 secs

1:15' are my Brands gp times:P John I had to go out in between the fast and novice, it was the only way I could get a clear lap in;)

From the sequence of photo's on Picman's site, Philippe is just behind me at Clearways on one lap (same shot) and then the next lap he's a bit further behind...
If I was timed at 55.5 then that would put him in the same sort of time bracket...

Did you know that if you have a cd of pics, just right click and look at properties. You should see the time the pic was taken. You only have to look at pics that at the same spot. :)