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... my tickets are costing me £000's! |

Who's choice is that? You go ahead and enjoy it Nick, I envy you for doing it but if it's gonna detract from me doing everything else count me out.
As for having the pleasure of club activity I get that EVERY weekend in the form of Berks/Kent, Hant, Sussex and Surrey regional meets and ride outs, as well as the 3 or 4 track days I can squeeze in through the year (good luck Gary and Catherine, I'll be supporting your business venture as a customer) with fellow DSC members and the occasional ride out to see other DSC members on their trackdays.
MY CHOICE!
I'm sure you will get plenty of willing spectators but I'd rather put £12 towards a day riding my own bike round the shires than watching somebody else ride theirs, I'm usually not interested in attending race meetings and I was only interested in this (and the few club meets I've been to in the past) because it is some of my mates doing it and I might have wanted to do it next year.
