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Old 15-Oct-2009, 22:56   #1
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Snip Snip

Seen it all before, clubs get to popular and end up having long reserve lists and returning entries as over subscribed.
Other clubs end up running more races of shorter duration to try and accomodate the large amount of members they have attracted and then the members feel they are loosing out and maybe the grass in the old paddock was just as good if not better than the paddock on the other side that they now find themselves in

People will end up where they feel they get the best value

Snip Snip............ Sick!

I now have a small amount of internal bleeding in the veggies I begged the Doc for some pain killers.......... no luck though and my 3 year old jumped on my lap earlier and F that hurt
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Old 16-Oct-2009, 01:38   #2
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Snip Snip............ Sick!

I now have a small amount of internal bleeding in the veggies I begged the Doc for some pain killers.......... no luck though and my 3 year old jumped on my lap earlier and F that hurt



Had a next door neighbour who had the snip first thing in the morning, was told to rest for 24 hours, went and got into his car ( in Plymouth) and drove without stopping to his house in Portsmouth, sat out side honking his horn (no, the car horn) as he was in that much pain he could not move, it took 3 of us 10 minutes or more to get him into his house



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Old 16-Oct-2009, 01:46   #3
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My father-in-law didn't have an anaesthetic when he had his done, just hypnotherapy, and rode his push bike home from the surgery afterwards! Hard man!


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Old 16-Oct-2009, 09:13   #4
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Snip Snip............ Sick!

I now have a small amount of internal bleeding in the veggies I begged the Doc for some pain killers.......... no luck though and my 3 year old jumped on my lap earlier and F that hurt


Had mine done on a Friday afternoon, under local, in the doctors surgery, sat up watching him do it !
Then walked home, and went to work on the Monday !
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Old 16-Oct-2009, 09:57   #5
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Sounds like a load of B***ox to me


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Old 16-Oct-2009, 12:03   #6
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Had mine done on a Friday afternoon, under local, in the doctors surgery, sat up watching him do it !
Then walked home, and went to work on the Monday !

FFS Man you must have balls of steel

I can't even pick up my tool case out of the Van
Because work are hot on H&S they will not let me return to work untill
all wounds have healed due to the chemicals we use.
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FFS Man you must have balls of steel

I can't even pick up my tool case out of the Van
Because work are hot on H&S they will not let me return to work untill
all wounds have healed due to the chemicals we use.

Make the most of it! Get in front of the TV, put your feet up and watch the MotoGP action from Phillip Island!


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Make the most of it! Get in front of the TV, put your feet up and watch the MotoGP action from Phillip Island!

Yes watched it this morning I hope Canepa's ok
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Yes watched it this morning I hope Canepa's ok

Yeah, didn't he hit a bird? Looks like he hurt himself!


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Old 16-Oct-2009, 15:53   #10
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good post well argued Miss Riot. Completely agree it is a pain in the neck choosing - I recall racing 250 when we had slicks, inters and wets and boy did we get it wrong sometimes. (apologies from an old(er) racer who does not run in DD - I clearly have nothing of value to add here)

Quote Miss Riot

"I don't mean to step on anyone's toes here, but I LOVE PIRELLI!

They warm up super-quick so when the weather's half decent, you can totally cane it from lap one. Who needs warmers? There'd be all that rushing to the holding area at the very last minute instead of the current race to get there half hour before the first call-out to be first out on track and avoid all the traffic. My fastest race lap at Castle Combe was on about lap two, on tyres that had already done Oulton and Cadwell!

Which brings me to another point... They last ages. And when you do have to finally buy a new set, they're cheap as chips compared to the price of today's tyres!

The road-tyre tread and compound means they're good in the damp or wet. It'd be the worst thing ever to introduce wets in the series - I can't even make up my mind on what shoes to bring at a race meeting, let alone what tyre to go for in dubious conditions. I always feel so sorry for those peeps who have to make last-minute decisions! If I were on my own at a race meeting, like at Donington race two this year, it'd be a disaster! Plus I'd rather save my spare rear wheel for older scrubs to use for track day practice so I don't waste my best rear tyre. And wets would be no more safer - people would simply go faster and crash more. At the moment there seems to be more crashes in DD when the weather's lovely as people are less cautious and go MENTAL! Like Tim :-)

Letter notwithstanding, the Pirellis are tried and tested in the series. Riders put in super-fast laptimes using them with no complaints.

In my opinion, PIRELLI DIABLOS ROCK! And I seriously doubt any of us would really notice the subtle difference between H and ZR rated on a DD bike. I'd be disappointed if I were to do the championship next year (not sure at mo) and Pirellis weren't used anymore.

Oh, and I'm not sponsored by Pirelli, ask Holbeach! I bought all my tyres from them this year, except one set kindly donated to me by FWR Tyres. Who like Holbeach get them directly from Pirelli...

Still, it's good to look at other tyres and deals at the end of the season. It'd certainly be cool to get hold of Rossos. But I don't think it's worth going all handbags at dawn about it"






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